An Emotional Strain
|F I had seen The Dam Busters as a film I should have been compelled to shut my eyes a lot of the time. The BBC programme The Dam Busters was so vivid I did the same thing involuntarily. But, dramatically vivid, the programme was towards the end emotionally halt. The length of time taken to destroy the dam, necessary to a full appreciation of the daring and skill of the men who bombed it, gave the listener time to assess the destruction in human as well as military tefms, and had the effect of rousing in the listener a conflict of feeling which the programme seemed callous in not recognising. Certainly a programme of this type cannot afford to dissipate its emotional energy by adopting opposing stances, but it should be careful not to provide too glaring an opportunity for the listener
to do so.
M.
B.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 26, Issue 670, 9 May 1952, Page 8
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151An Emotional Strain New Zealand Listener, Volume 26, Issue 670, 9 May 1952, Page 8
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