A GREAT DAY
(Wellington Film Unit) B Fe a Wellington Film Unit (a_ recentlyformed group of enthusiasts) did, I think, allow their enthusiasm to outrun their discretion when they selected Frank Sargeson’s brief and bitter story as the subject of their first picture. I doubt if anyone could do full justice in a silent film to an author so preoccupied with mental states and the exact words. needed to communicate them. I doubt, too, if any member of the unit knew what "sustenance" meant, either as a condition of existence or 6s an tial el t in the story. But if A Great Day is not a good film, it is at least a beginning. The Unit should now know what they can’t do, and that is one step nearer knowing what they can.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 19, Issue 483, 24 September 1948, Page 25
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134A GREAT DAY New Zealand Listener, Volume 19, Issue 483, 24 September 1948, Page 25
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