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Radio Record, 26 June 1936, Page 27

Should You Think About Films?

(Continued from page 5.) © place have fostered and advanced the arts and crafts of civilisation. Basil) overcoming resisfance in their monste: "planes (a point at which the picture réaches some of its greatest heights of

awe-inspiring spectacle), they form a new international order, pledged to co! lective sectirity, peace and progress, On to the year 2026-a century from uow. Here the film is most truly in the cealms of pure imagination; but it is imagination rooted in reality. growing from things as we now know them to things as they: conceivably might be-come-television, smokeless, dirt-free — 4 om

cities, universal air transport, and a thousand other possible wonders, including the Great Space Gun, in whick man, having conquered the Barth, sets out to conquer the Universe. For that is the concluding Wellsian messagethat life must go forward or slip backward; that human progress and happiness, not the futile waste of war, is the only true excuse for buman suffering.