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THE ADULT AND THE CINEMA
friend, to whom I put the question, 'Do you love Him now?' replied with great feeling in his voice, 'I do'.
During the last war I think it may have been, but one film I have never forgotten was called Is God Dead? Showing as it did the trails and trials of several families or persons who fancied that God must have deserted them, or was 'dead', as one guesses afterwards each peculiar circumstance was brought to a satisfactory conclusion, as left one in no doubt that God was very much 'alive'. I obtained great comfort from that film, and often since, when life has been particularly troublous I have remembered that film (More, than I have ever recalled either the written word, or the spoken sermon) and have gained courage from the fact that God is not dead. So much from the religious films.
To come to present days. No one could see Mrs. Miniver, or Random Harvest, to name but two, without being the better for them in more ways than one. Films of that category make one go home so much more determined to 'be good and let who will be clever'. And when one is tired of struggling for recognition in any kind of art, what picture can do one more good than, say, Irish Eyes Are Smiling? The scene in which the song writer (taken I presume from fact) bangs away at his own composition after so much discouragement, must surely give hopes to even the faintest-hearted amongst us. I know it, and other films of like kind, have always helped me greatly. If one dare say so, (when one is not at all great oneself) it gives one a kind of 'fellow-feeling' to see portrayed in story and picture form how the famous have had their struggles too. AND HAVE WON.
I have named but a few (simply because though I remember many films which have helped me spiritually, mentally, and psychologically I cannot recall their names) of some of the great 'pictures' of yester-year, and the present. And for fostering one's love of country never could I forget Cavalcade, and This Happy Breed. There was something particularly intriguing in A Canterbury Tale. Give us more of such films as I have named and the world is bound to be a better place to live in. Age 56. Female. British, of British Parents.
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With reference to your article in Picturegoer films have never had an opportunity to influence me as regards marriage or divorce but they do influence me to some extent. After seeing Old Acquaintance I was very thankful for having a girl friend of the calibre I have
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