Film Criticism
NE of the signs that the film has reached at least the early adolescent stage of development is the amount of sericus criticism it now provokes, the growing number of people who attend to this criticism andthe fact that even exhibitors are sometimes affected by it. For the ordinary person, ,the spoken word of praise or dispraise carries, I believe, greater weight than the written one, and hence film criticism on the air should be above all responsible. At present, both 1YA and 1YC feature weekly reviews, of varying quality. The better 1YA reviewer is Wynn Colgan, whose comments show a keen appreciation of film values, are up-to-date and not too "arty." His voice is a shade colourless, and his presentation could be more energetic, but I still find his manner preferable to that of those boisterous, life-of-the-party types who babble nothings to us from other stations. The \/1YC reviews, although one of the first in the field, have fallen off in quality recently. Some kind of critical estimate is attempted, but the reviewer’s judgment is uncertain. Nearly all we get from him nowadays is a detailed plot-summary-surely the least fruitful way to review anything.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 21, Issue 538, 14 October 1949, Page 11
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197Film Criticism New Zealand Listener, Volume 21, Issue 538, 14 October 1949, Page 11
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