Films Remembered
"| HE mellowness that can only come from a prolonged savouring of life’s pleasures is generally lacking in our own radio speakers, who tend to the downrightness of youth or the didacticism of, middle age; and I have always envied the BBC its Compton Mackenzie. A little more exploitation, however, and .- we can have our own Compton Mackenzie in Professor Arnold Wall, whose opening talk in 2YA’s new series My Five Most Impressive Films gave me considerable pleasure. Professor Wall was able to draw on 50 years of filmgoing for his talk, which reached back to memories of the breaking wave of Bioscope days; but fortunately he placed his five films in the last 20 years, which gave most of us a chance to endorse or repudiate his preferences. Possibly the most enjoyable part of the talk came before the Professor got down to specific films, taking time off to air his film
: / prejudices and predilections, to the ac- | companiment of an occasional neigh from his particular hobby horse.
M.
B.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 29, Issue 729, 3 July 1953, Page 11
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172Films Remembered New Zealand Listener, Volume 29, Issue 729, 3 July 1953, Page 11
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