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THE ADULT AND THE CINEMA supplies.' Miss Phillips, too, accepts I think, the reality character of the film experience. And indeed a close perusal of the protocol she gives as an example, shows that film may become for people a part of their sexual life.
It is important to note that Miss Phillips refrains in her book from any quantitative conclusion with regard to the representative character of her protocol material.
We have strictly adhered to the same policy and leave it to the believers in Gallup poll or mass observation to work out numerical formulas, an enterprise which we did not feel competent to undertake.
Our protocols which now follow in their original form were obtained in February 1945 through The Picturegoer. (Only names and other obvious indications to endanger the anonymity of the authors are being withheld.)
The following questions were put:
Your help is requested.
A lecturer at the University of London has asked for your assistance.
He is conducting an investigation regarding film audiences.
He would like you to answer two questions:
1 . Have films ever influenced you with regard to personal decisions or behaviour? (Love, divorce, manners, fashion, etc.) Can you give instances?
2. Have films ever appeared in your dreams? In answering both questions name the films.
You may write to your heart's content. There is no limit on wordage and the best will be rewarded by a guinea, ten shillings, and two prizes of five shillings.
The University lecturer asks particularly that you should state your age, sex, nationality, profession, and profession of parents.
Naturally, all correspondence will be treated as confidential.
2. DOCUMENTS
1 . Mr. . . .
Being a regular reader of Picturegoer I have decided to enter your contest not in the hope of winning a prize but in the hope you can or know of someone who can help me to realise one or two of my ambitions. I have enclosed a photo of myself in the hope it will be returned.
First I will give particulars of my parents and myself. I am 28
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