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THE ADULT AND THE CINEMA
In answer to your questions, I can say that films have influenced me, mostly Technicolour musical films, such as, Bathing Beauty, they give you ideas of poise, self confidence and also dress sense which is the gateway to these two things, it enables you to pair off colours, which you would not dream of wearing unless you had seen how lovely they look.
Also from the films I have learned to love opera music, and taught myself to sing at the ships concerts, and have not yet had any eggs thrown, but will be always ready to catch them.
Films can also give you an idea of acting, when I see a part well acted I feel as if I would like to try the part myself, such as a good spy part, or the last part of 2,000 Women in the concert hall, where they all sing, 'There'll always be an England.'
Films have never appeared in my dreams, and I have my own views on Love and Divorce, films would not influence me on those subjects.
I am not a very good letter writer, but hope I have been able to give you an idea of how films influence me.
67. Miss . . .
Please let me introduce myself first, I am nineteen years of age, female and British. For the past year since my Mother died, I have looked after the home, my Father and younger sister.
Before that, I was educated at High School, leaving at seventeen after passing my School-leaving Certificate. After which I worked in an office, learning shorthand and typing at night-school. Then I worked in a munitions factory for a while until called home, to look after the family.
My one and most interesting hobby has been films since I can remember, and I have kept an inventory of all the films I have ever seen, dating from about the age of four, which I can just remember, to the present day and the total number of films I have seen in my nineteen years up to date is: 1,350.
My Father, at present a ship's plumber in a 'dock-yard' has travelled to America and Canada, but has seen one film in the last fifteen years, and does not in the least share my enthusiasm for pictures.
Films have influenced me, on certain principals, one for instance behaviour, especially in concern with the opposite sex. In films men nearly always have good manners, even the 'bad' characters show a tendency for politeness here and there. Now most of the men I know, and boys especially my age, have no manners what
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