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Hokitika Guardian, 27 March 1928, Page 2

MISLEADING FILMS. There is ;i sail air of familiarity about the complaint from Franco that F ranch people and French customs are misrepresented in the world's kinema films. It seems to he the peculiar function of the films to give a false impression of national typos and characteristics—we are frequently told that dramas that pretend to deal with English life create the worst possible impression when they are shown to native audiences in India and elsewhere in the Fast and if Americans liehaved as they are shown to behave in some of the Hollywood productions thenland would he one large lunatic asylum. But it is not even certain that, the films arc the sole culprit in matters of this kind. Was there not a, recent complaint that Irishmen were constantly travestied on the stage, and a society formed to put down all theatrical conceptions of the comic Irishman-' It would seem as though many of the. simpler forms of drama, cannot get along without slack types of character which may hear very little relation at all to reality. The new French complaint even asserts that international peace may l>o imperilled by films which persistently misrepresent the character of French |>eople. and in view of the wide influence which the kincma exercises the point is not. perhaps. altogether fantastic, for it its a good deal easier to create the background for international misunderstanding than it is to engender an atmosphere of good will.—The “Manchester Guardian.”

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