Sociology of film : studies and documents (1946)

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THE ADULT AND THE CINEMA George Sanders play in Casablanca which I thought a wonderful picture and The Moon and Sixpence. In real life though people are so different, the film stars themselves when they are themselves minus, script grease-paint and elaborate costume are the same the whole world over, as other people, tempers, emotions, thoughts so that when we admire them we are really admiring the part they are playing in the film, and this I always bear in mind, before I am led astray. Love can be influenced by films, so in some cases divorce may be too, but I am afraid I can't write about that, as I am not married yet, to go further not even in love yet. But I don't think they would influence me on the point of divorce as you have to love someone very much to love their bad points as well as their good, and as I stated before films are only in a make-believe world, and love and divorce are reality, the same as stars are off the screen part of the human race. Make up appeals to a woman and rather influences myself in regard to such problems. But of course in the Hollywood dream world make up is the most important essential of all. But when applied to yourself very powerful flood lighting has to be taken into consideration, and if, say, in everyday life we were to use make up to such an extent as the movie stars do, we would look ridiculous freaks. But the contours of the mouth where lipstick should and should not go is a useful hint to me, the same applies as to the application of powder and rouge. But of course considerably toned down. Planning of houses has always interested and influenced me, I know for a fact that most houses in America are the latest in modern house planning, and when you see such wonderful appliances for labour saving, and wonderful electricity and cool storage planning on the films, well you feel that you just have to do something about it. Of course the kitchen mostly appeals to me, being a woman, but I daresay it will appeal to some men too in the way of comfortable living rooms, better lighting system, and where there is no help needed for such a house such as helping wife or mother to wash up, or carry coals as she is tired of doing it herself. Also it must be pleasing for a husband to come home from work, to a neat and pretty wife, owing to many labour saving devices, than a wife who is tired out and looks it too. Films are educational, some more than others, and some hardly at all, but I like educational films and I think there should be more of them, sometimes they influence either one way or another. Such 258