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MONDAY, MAR. 30, 1936.

DOCUMENTARY

BRITISH FILMS.

One particular branch of the film industry in which Great

A

A

is

Baby born

NEW baby is born into the world.

What does it mean? What

may it not mean?

To the father, an instalment of immortality; to the mother, the fulfilment of her destiny; to the baby, all the promise of life.

-and

the

Winther's angle

WHAT

in the triangle?

For him, too, it is a crisis; much more than is generally recognised. The sufferings of the father are unfortunately- not usually treated with any degree of respect.

it is then that the real. "triangle" of married life begins

by a Medical

Yet it is a difficult Jeriod for him to. weather. I have traced the foundering of many marriages to this critical. perlod.

First comes the thrill of complete manhood,. which tho childless can never have. Thon, too often,

fooling -usually subconscious- that the baby is a rival.

#

It is a spearpoint of germinating life, aimed into the future. Perhaps a new Shakespeare, a Goethe, a Charlie Chaplin, a Greta Garbo, a Hitler, a plain but worthy citizen, a wise man; perhaps a lunatic, Correspondent frightened, unsemi-civilised wo- vious devotion; they may sulk. a gibbering imbecile.

THE

apex of a human

of

amination is set forth in a reportį containing a number existing system. It is perhaps

fear is

that

In

.

a little.

[1

the

Over and over again, when trying to disen-- tangle domestic pro- blems, I have come across these subaconsci- ̧ ously jealous fathers. One finds generally that they hear from the lips of experience have said little, but à change has.. that child-bearing in not a pun- come over them: a subtle ishment for guilt, but a natural change in feeling, a hang-dog. process that primitive, un- bitterness instead of the pro-

Others have noticeably turned THE baby is the help herself.

herself she does not want to man has no great trouble with.

One experienced doctor has to drink, to tap-room friends, opinion that to interests outside the home, If she says "No" to it, she is expressed the triangle: a triangle of emotional denying something deep down much of the discomfort of perhaps to work. They are relationship and possible com- in her, and she cannot be happy. child-bearing in modern women likely to be testy. Phone 27778-9. Stubbs Rd. plication: a triangle of father, she cannot be normal. She is due to anticipation und ten-

This-one of the early hurdles mother, and child: a triangle must suffer for that neurotic sion; and that when

of marriage has been too much older than the eternal one-and twist.

dispelled, this discomfort is more important.

Much is talked of woman's reduced to what can easily be for thom. It has found them wanting. Instead of pride, For each of the three birth is freedom; but the freedom a tolerated. a crisis, in one way or another. woman wants is the freedom to

Most doctors will, I think, be jealousy. But often

from special consideration have her baby,

sympathetic to that view. Cerwise and tactful wife can avoid first MONSIDER

the mother's an-

Having a baby is the comple- tainly, I have met women who this.

ASTLY, gle in this triangle. What joys tion and culmination of sex to enjoyed the actual process of

the healthy woman. Without childbirth.

baby's angle to does it offer? What riska?

Modern anaesthesia has so A baby is the culmination of that she is emotionally stranded

the triangle.. a woman's life, whatever she high and dry, Without that marvellously advanced

Birth is not a painful pro- that discomfort is un- Cess. may say or think to the con- even her bodily functions can even

any more than dying Is. work with the same necessary; but I have known

Both are unconscious processes. trary. It is her biological fate, never her destiny. She cannot help smoothness; she will not grew several women who refused that

birth, the fully conscious old gracefully in complete har- because they did not wish to be mony of body and mind. robbed of what they regarded mind is not yet active; at the moment of dying, it has be- None the less, in having a as a wonderful experience. come inactive. Britain has made rapid strides NOTES OF THE DAY baby-like everything else in

Yet the process of birth- life-there are risks and com-

THE second adjust-

ment of the when it is à difficult one-may in recent years is in the produc-

plications. The mother-to-be

shock the deeper unconscious tion of what are called documen- CORONERS' POWERS

has two critical adjustments to mother-to-be is to the child.

For some mothers it is diffi- organic layers of the mind, tary films. The documentary

A Departmental Committee was make: first to child-bearing cult to strike the mean between Children who have had a and re difficult birth are likely to be film was first developed by the set up by the Home Secretary in then to the child,

February Inst year to Inquire into

FEAR of child pampering the child

senting it as an interloper, a restless, nervous, and irritable Empire Marketing Board as the the law and practice relating to

bearing is fear rival for attention. Especially for the first few weeks of their best

means of "documenting" Coroners. The result of their ex-of the unknown. It is fed by does the latter occur in women life. They need a little special the varied aspects of life

recom-the cruel sensation-mongering who have been over-mothered, care and attention during that throughout the Empire. The mendations for the reform of the of foolish women: the sort of over-fathered, generally over time: there is always a possi

bility that this nervousness—if The and disease and harmful advice;

usual-perhaps not cared for-may grow into Board ceased to exist some time surprising that Coroners should be ghouls who glory in suffering parented and spoilt in youth. ago, but its work has been con-bound far less by law and precedent whose idea of consoling the sick healthier-tendency is to pam- a lifelong instability.

than are High Court or County tinued by several other organisa Court Judges, and it is suggested is to recite the painful agonies per the child and neglect the It is wisest for all tions, the chief of which is the that they should be deprived of of those who have died from husband.

concerned to strike a mean: to

is certainly an The main cancer and dreadfullnesses. General Post Office Film Unit. some of their powers.

the recommendations is The only antidote to fear of reserve a little of the limelight adventure: for at least three purpose In this class of film the British the safeguarding of innocent par- the

people. unknown is to know; to for the husband. school of producers is pre-ties and witnesses who attend in-i cininent. At the Film Festival quests. There is no suggestion held in connection

that the Coroners of England and Wales, who number altogether 809, the Brussels Exhibition last are abusing their powers, but October, the first prize was won rather that their powers are too by a film produced by the wide. Thus it is recommended

that they should no longer have the SEEING Kome laddies eagerly par- General Post Office Film Unit, power to commit persons for trial dreadfuls hot for a penny, however I read long ago in a penny dreadful, and in the scientific section all on charge of murder, manslaught my newsagent's the other day, at a time when these literary produc- the awards were won by British ter, or infanticide, and that no my mind was carried back many years tions really did sell at a penny.

In the first half of the 1870's, when was also a ferocious pirate Black person should be accounted guilty to my first reading of Stevenson's documentary films. It should of these offences merely as the re-story of "The Bottle Imp." This set was about ten years old, an elder Beard, who liked similar adornments be understood that the documen-sult of proceedings in the Coroners' me wondering whether anyone now- brother of mine was the phasessor of which he used to enhance the beauty added a lock. The box was slowed bonair Claude Duval, whose romance tary film does not attempt to Courts. It is suggested that in adays knows where R.LS. gat, the a small packing box to which he had of his beard. There was also the de-

Idea of the story. such cases the Coroner's task. It is generally assumed that it was away under his bed, and only on occa-reached a higher plane than the circus compete with the ordinary should be limited to finding out his own invention; but this la not the alons was I permitted to enjoy its ring even, and graced the boards of commercial product of Holly-how, when and where the death took case. The story underwent a sea- contents. It held a rich treasure, and the penny gaff. wood or of Elstree which is the place. In regard to Inquests in-change when Stevenson retold it to "The Bottle Imp" was part of it.

There was nothing "dreadful" about Exciting Fair volving civil liabilities, the report | his South Sea audience, but essential- centre of British film produc-recommends that such trials shouki ly it is the same story as one that these stories. There were highway- tion. Its aim is not to amuse likewise be reserved to the ordin- the public. It is not spectacula ary Courts. Among the numerous recommendations of the Com- or sensational. It has a cultural

mittee ono especially affecting and educational purpose, and to public opinion concerns inquests on this end it builds up interesting suicides. It is suggested that the verdicts of Coroners should not in- and dramatic pictures of the clude such phrases as "suicide while realities of everyday life. It of unsound mind"; they should be has aroused among millions of confined solely to the deciafon as people an interest in science and to whether the deceased died by his or her own hand. It is inevitable industry and in such great na-

that a suicide must be mentally tional organisations as the Post deranged, according to one school Office and the British Broad- of thought. But the modern view Is somewhat different, certainly casting Corporation. It en less harah and generally fairer. courages a more active interest | Why should a Coroner put a stigma commerce, industry, the upon some unfortunate whom cir. eumstances have driven to take his immense ramifications of

lin

with

own life? people nre asking. tional organisations, and in Suicide is not always the act of a social affairs. Perhaps more mad man.

than any other type of film, the

some

documentary film allows the There were, a few years ago, at photographer and the producera Colonial Offico conference in the freedom of experiment, the London, suggestions of liberty to express themselves in organised scheme, in which the the most artistic manner possi- Governments of the smaller] ble in this particular medium. It Colonies would interest them-

for goes far to justify the descrip-selves,

the distribution tion of the cinema given by the of more British films in these President of the British possessions. Whether the pro- Cinematograph Society na "one ject was ever fully developed,| of the sociological wonders of we do not know, but there can the century." Unfortunately, be no questioning the point that hims of the type under notice much that is instructive and do not reach Hongkong, in entertaining along the lines which connection we cannot mentioned is available, from

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.TALES THAT THRILLED

-chasing-their--favourite-penny.

.

YOUNG

SIDE GLANCES By George Clark

"Now I will explain why you shouldn't bet on more than half the horses in one race."

YES

a new baby

THE

man stories: Dick Turpin, dear to the patrons and proprietors of the circus, And a less-known compeer of Dick's known as Sixteen String Jack, from the ribbons he wore tied in a bunch to his highwayman top boots. There

Depend upon it, the boys of R.LS's. day were well catered for, even al though the cinema was not yet in- vented. In fact, thene earlier writers contributed much to the early cinema. The pre-war Red Indian pictures on the screen were nothing new to the fathers or even the grandfathers of the boys who enjoyed them. These youngsters paid fourpence for the luxury of a tip-up seat; I est on the kitchen, fender, only occasionally con- scious of how unpleasant it could be, and read by the light of the fire Only the conditions were altered, it would be hard to say which of us enjoyed the storles most.

Young Robert Louis Stevenson knew nothing of moving pictures; but he must have become excited over the illustrations that accompanied the highwayman talos. A highly-colour- od print in the old woodblock style was occasionally "given away" gratis

number. with some particular

en-

especially recall one specimen titled, "Claude Duval Dances, a Minuet with the Lady on the Honth.".

That would surely have a rarity value to-day; and there were others just an good,

Why! they were just as exciting as, and over so much more beautiful than, the pictures on the Police Nows past- ed outside the news-shop in the West Port (where the Chalmers Memoria? Church now stands) which I made many a pilgrimage to Boe, anıl thought well worth the trouble.

But that box of my brother's had no connection with any "wrong box"; it was the right sort of box for a small boy, and held other treasures which may have appealed to young Stevenson; and may have contributed': to his stock of stories. There were, for instance, The Boys of England" and "The Young Men of Gront. Britain." My taste waa for the former of these; they contained the great "Jack Harkaway" series, and I am sure every boy to-day would cherish the coloured pictura, "Alone in the Pirates Lair," showing Jack with a cutlass acting undauntedly amidst a cholce collection of animals, including a lion and a huge python, but never a pirate in sight.