Salient. An Organ of Student Opinion at Victoria College, Wellington, N.Z. Vol. 11, No. 4. April 7th, 1948
[Introduction]
In England and America pleasure has become more and more commercialized, so that it is not surprising that New Zealand, an Infant Buckling from these two mothers, should be Influenced in a like manner.
At present in this country some forms of our pleasure involve rapidly moving our bodies through space, watching organised animals doing so, or sitting in thousands and letting a strip of celluloid do our thinking for us. How the machine is Influencing society could be dealt with at great length, but its influence upon pleasure and thought through the medium of film is what will be most fully considered here. This could best be done by considering briefly why people go to the pictures, the effect of those pictures upon them, types of films, and the films as they could be.