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APPENDIX 2
the cinema a good, truthful film about friendship. And not only one, but several. Friendship is an important matter for all of us, beginning in the seventh and eighth forms. Approximately at this age children start to think seriously about what they are doing, and a lot of questions appear then. Comrades of the "Detfilm", it is your direct duty not to shirk this great problem, and to make a film about it . . .'
Many correspondents want a film made about the Young Pioneer, Pawlik Morosow, one of the children's favourite heroes, who was murdered in his native village by an enemy of the Revolution, whom he had denounced. In numerous letters, films about the childhood of eminent men are demanded.
There are also correspondents who seriously offer their own services or help.
Bussja Petscherskaja, a schoolgirl in the fourth form, writes that she has seen the film, Wassilissa the Beautiful, and thinks it is essential that a second part to this film should appear in which the story of the hero is brought to an end, and where 'we see what happens to everyone'. 'When I came out of the cinema I said to daddy that I should like to write a second series, of course not so that you should make the film from it, but just because it may be useful sometime. But daddy told me that I had better not do that before I have left school. I should like to ask you whether daddy has advised me correctly. Of course, I write gratuitously.'
A great feature is made of songs and, in general, of music in the children's films; some young cinema-goers sometimes find them a little monotonous, not interesting enough, or too difficult for them to sing.
'The songs for children's films are written by grown-ups. But it would be better if children wrote their own songs and that only then the grown-ups made the music for them ... I can write poems about everything: about travels, about the sea, about Stalin, about the heroes and others. I write poems quickly. For instance if you need something about a train, I write it on the same day as I receive your letter. Don't be afraid to ask me when you need something.'
The author of this letter is eight years old.
This living, organic connection of the film world with its young patrons is one of the most interesting aspects of this new but very promising field of work.
The specific world of the children's film, which has much in common with education, also shows itself in the work of directors
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