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THE ADULT AND THE CINEMA too (to) my mind it was the best film I have ever seen — and I go to the cinema three to four nights a week — every week. (Male, British, age 17, non-profession)
16. Mr. . . .
Reading the Picturegoer one day I saw in your column that you were inviting readers to give their views on the effects of films on character and moral disposition. So being a very ardent fan, and thinking myself quite a critic I decided to send you my opinion which I hope will be of some use to you.
I am 28 years of age, British, sex — male. I have served 9 years in the Hotel trade, from a page-boy to a waiter. The war years took me into the engineering trade. My father spent most of his life in the theatrical world. Mother was a chorus-girl. So you see that I have some relationship with the acting profession, which possibly accounts for my being an awful dreamer and sentimentalist.
Up to the age of 14 years, due to my fathers work, I saw a lot of the stage, which made me always appreciate a good show. Then, when I started to work I began to see quite a few pictures each week, and these made a very great impression on me. Through the passing years there flowed before my eyes countless visions of beautiful scenes, and wonders of this universe. Of the peoples, their way of living and fight against nature, their character, and temperament. Stories from the Bible, and History book, from the classics of our time, were brought before us forcefully, vividly, in all their glory. Truly this was something realy (really) amazing, that the stage could never produce, even in small measure. And what variety, one could listen to the best the world could offer, for a fee of a few pence.
The great picture, All Quiet on the Western Front, showed to me the horror and futility of war. It imprinted on my mind a picture that no book or talk could analyse to my young mind.
'Ramon Navarro' in most of his films {In Gay Madrid) was a great influence of my trying to be chivalrous, polite, and understanding to women.
The many Crime Does Not Pay films have shown me to appreciate, and respect the law.
My early life was a period of moving to different apartments culminating in the death of my mother, and it is only of late that I have started to enjoy the love of the family, and intimacys (intimacies) of home life. But before that I would catch glimpses of that atmosphere in films such as Skippy, the 'Deana (Deanna)
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