7 FEBRUARY 1925, Page 15

THE CINEMA

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SM,—Referring to your article in last week's Spectator, "The Cinema." When I was in Bruges in April, 1914, I saw a most wonderful film of Dante's Inferno. It closely followed the text of La Divina Commedia, and showed the pictures in their order : Charon's Boat, Suicides turned into trees, the Lake of Pitch, the Vale of Disease, &c., &c. In most of the scenes Virgil and Dante appeared, and there was no modern story to interrupt the majesty of the scenes. I was entranced by this portrayal of the Dante Inferno, and have often wished to see it again.—! am, Sir, &c., A CONSTANT READER.