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APPENDIX 2
The children's cinemas are real 'Republics of the art of the film' for youth. One of the main characteristics of these cinemas is the great pedagogical work undertaken in connection with the performances. Another is the earnest and responsible attitude of those working in the making of films towards the living, knowledgeseeking child audience.
The leading principle on which the whole organisation of children's films in the U.S.S.R. is based, is: real art for the small citizens ! A serious attitude towards this work for the children, without the typical 'condescension'.
Films for children are not produced as a by-product, but constitute a particularly important sphere in Soviet film production. The large studio 'Sojusdetfilm' (Studio for child and youth films) is concerned exclusively with the production of films for children and young people. Important directors, authors, and actors work there. Schools, the organisation of the Communist Youth League, and higher educational institutions are closely connected with children's films. The basis for this is the particular attention paid by the State to the education of the growing generation.
The repertoire of the 1940-41 season gives an indication of the variety of themes and types of children's films.
We find, for instance, the film version of the legend Wassilissa the Beautiful (a film which takes up a whole evening) ; also films from literary works, mainly classics (Mirgerod after a tale by Gogol, TomKenty, Mark Twain's novel, The Prince and the Beggarmaid, etc.).
Great attention is also paid to adventure films, which satisfy the child's interests in travels, in the study of nature, etc. Recently, for instance, the following films were shown: Gaitschi, a description of the life of the peoples in the extreme North of Russia; Siberia, a romantic story of children in the far-away Siberian Taiga, whose dream it is to find a pipe which was supposed to have been left in that region by Stalin, while he was exiled there during the Czarist regime; Timur and His Gang, a film about the stirring adventures of young pioneers during the summer holidays.
It is interesting to analyse the content of this film a little. The young pioneer, Timur, with childish enthusiasm, organises a gang of boys of the same age for romantic adventures, during the summer holidays. The 'gang' is equipped with a whole arsenal of telephones, signals and so on, all constructed by the boys. The grown-ups regard Timur's gang most suspiciously and take them for nothing but a mischief-making group of boys. The attraction of a romantic mystery does not allow Timur to tell the grown-ups the truth about
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