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THE ADULT AND THE CINEMA Its these sort of pictures you dream about mostly the ghostly and weird ones.
I am 1 8, Typical English, Clerk. Father — Surface Foreman at a Colliery; Mother — ordinary housewife.
27. Miss . . .
Have Films Ever Appeared in Tour Dreams?
Yes, films have often appeared in my dreams.
I think films are a wonderful medium of entertainment, one which we should think about a great deal. When I see a beautiful film, as when I see a beautiful play or hear a lovely piece of music at a concert or on the radio, I like to think about it by myself and when I go to bed I dream about them.
For me to think about and therefore to dream about a film, it has to be one of the first class or else to be very unusual. The acting must be good, the voice arresting for me to see or hear them in my dreams. I never dream of slapstick comedy, or even a thrilling murder. When I see a film it may interest me during the couple of hours I am in the cinema, but I may forget it promptly on leaving it. Sometimes, however, I see a film which I like very much, one which I could see again perhaps, on the way home from the theatre I think about it, and at night, asleep, certain scenes will come back to me. Perhaps it will be a line spoken by one of the actors, maybe a glance or gesture.
I can always remember, when I was a child seeing The Great Ziegfeld. In those days it was considered spectacular, and in my dreams for many nights afterwards I dreamt of the revolving stage, the glamourous (glamorous) girls and those lovely dogs. In those days too I used to see Shirley Temple a great deal. At night I used to re-live her adventures and unhappy moments. Wonderful things like films have a strange impression on a child's mind, and now that I am seventeen, films still have a great fascination for me.
I went to see The Man in Grey some time ago, a picture which I found thoroughly enjoyable and stimulating. At night I kept seeing the terrifying look on James Mason's face as he beat Hester to death. I could not get it out of my dreams for some time.
After I had seen the picture The Great Waltz, I did not dream of
scenes or people but of the haunting Strauss waltzes. It was the
same with Love Story when parts of the Cornish Rhapsody appeared
in my dreams. Also The Great Victor Herbert and A Song to Remember.
A week or so ago I saw Madonna of the Seven Moons. I enjoyed it
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