Sociology of film : studies and documents (1946)

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THE ADULT AND THE CINEMA isnt wrong to emulate an ideal as long as one keeps the standard of perfection very high. One thing which always strikes me is how an actor assumes the mantle of a doctor lawyer accountant designer without undergoing all the necessary studying and application to hard work. Perhaps this can be both inspiring and dangerous. A lecturer in Philosophy from Durham University once told me I had a photographic memory that is I remembered things and facts he told me in visual form, if this is so and I can certainly remember films well, films if the subject matter is properly chosen, and the film was slowed down assists reception could become a valuable educational medium. Going My Way was a beautiful picture and the story, of two priests and their efforts to help their parishonners (parishioners) was a theme to which no one could take exception. Light comedies and musicals particularly those of Abbott and Gostello, Donald O'Connor, Bob Hope and the Ann Sothern lM aisie5 series are very relaxing and serve as a mental refreshment, that is light farces like Standing Room Only and even in these one can find much of educational value. That is the setting of the rooms, furnitures, fittings fireplaces and as in Thanks for the Memory how not to cook. Some of Preston Sturges attempts to show social injustices while elaborate, show certain subjects up in a different light. Lloyd C. Douglas books White Banners and The Green Light all serve this purpose that is to show different opinions. As the film going public can be taken as a cross section of the community surely their opinions as shown at the box office represent a recognised factor of public opinion. With regard to sex life this is perhaps overemphasised but not in an ugly light, the censors would not allow this. You may take all this as a defence of one of my favourite hobbies and no one who thinks anything of great literature can criticise a filmic presentation of some of it. Random Harvest was a fine film showing the rehabilitation of a shell shocked man and his conquest of his disability in sympathetic surroundings a most moving film to me. Lost Horizon gave a fine example of a 'Utopia5. I once saw a film I do not remember its name in whichThomas Mitchell took the role of a Professor of Philosophy who had an incurable and fatal complaint and possessing no dependants decided that before he died he would rid the world of some person of anti-social tendencies preferably a blackmailer in an unsolved 243