THE FUTURE OF THE FILM INDUSTRY
Sta,—There would appear to be almost a conspiracy of silence on the part of our post-war planners, educationists and social economists respect- ing the part the cinema is to play in the New Era. Can it be that they are all afraid of the " Big Bad Hollywolf." Surely few would maintain that, during the inter-war period, the cinema cuts in retrospect a " very pretty picture "?
Could it have been for the best that 25 per cent. of our youths' leisure and 33 per cent, of its pocket-money (or was it 33 per cent. and 5o per cent.?) was squandered on ephemeral and often cheap and enervating Hollywood entertainment? Or that legislative efforts at control, such as the " A " Certificate, should be, as every regular patron knows was (and still is) the case more often honoured in the breach than in the observance?
I am raising this not unimportant issue in the hope that some of your readers who are able to speak with authority on the subject may air their views and, possible, controvert my opening sentence. Even at the risk of treading on some allied corns, it is fully time this were done and the various issues thrashed out openly and squarely.
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