PICTURE SHOWS AND CHILDREN
NEED FOE .RESTRICTIONS. Sir,—ln your report of a discussion on picture films the Mayor of \V anganui (lenictl tlie iiarniluiiieio of our picture ii' Mis. because children "cheer when tlie \*.a.in is run to earth." 'flic ouv of file child is not clearly understood. The injury done by long and reueated dwelling 011 scenes of vice and crime is not minimised by tlie repentance or punishment of .'llO villain in tlie last act. This has been proved often. Tlio (rouble is that not once, but hundreds of times, the child .views scenes and actions of brutality and vice. If. as some allege, the child takes 110 interest in such pictures, and is bored bv them, then why is ho there? It is as bad for him mentally to be gazing rncantlv at what he does not understand as it would be morally if he did understand it. However, let us waste 110 time in further denouncing evil, but make for what is good. ■ Picture iilius have come to stav. Let the State or ttome otlier authority put aside one nicture theatre for children, and, as in oilier countries, forbid tho children to go elsewhere. I wAuld not conflno tho iilins to so-called children's subjects—fairy tales, scenery, the growth of plants-tfcat we used to see. I would include standard novels and plays, for evou when they deal with, sordid subject.? they do', it in a way very different from that of the modern American rubbish maker. Were such a theatre established the manager would find it patronised by many other people besides children. -Many otherwise sane people go to the inferior pictures nowadays simply because there is nothing else to go to.—l am, etc., ' CONSTANCE CLYDE. September 12.
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Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 299, 13 September 1919, Page 8
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291PICTURE SHOWS AND CHILDREN Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 299, 13 September 1919, Page 8
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