CHILDREN AND FILMS
THE greatest compliment that a child audience can pay to a film is to sit quiet while it is going on. This means they are spellbound, for usually during a film which they are merely en joying they like to join in talking to the characters on the screen, talking to each other and very frequently talking to themselves. The moment they are bored they lose all interest in what is happening on the screen and jump about or play. What bores them, above everything, is what bores many intelligent adults, and that is long stretches of dull conversation. All written criticism from the children is definite, though not often as devastating as that of the little girl who wrote: “I believe there is a shortage of film stock. If so, it was a pity to waste stock on making this film.”— Mary Field in Women’s Journal.
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Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 10, Issue 74, 17 January 1947, Page 4
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150CHILDREN AND FILMS Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 10, Issue 74, 17 January 1947, Page 4
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