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THE VIRTUES AND LIMITATIONS OF MONTAGE From: André Bazin (1967) Trans H. Gray: What Is Cinema? Vol.1; University of California Press. (Montage lnterdit. Crin Blanc. Le Bailon Rouge. Une Fee pas comme les autres. ) THE CREATIVE originality of A. Lamorisse was already apparent in Bim, Ie Petit Ane. Bim and perhaps Crin Blanc are the only two real childrens films ever made. Of course there are others although not as many as one would expect-that are suited to a variety of young age groups. The Soviet Union has made special efforts in this field but it is my feeling that films like Lone White Sails are already aimed at young adolescents. The attempts of J. Arthur Rank at specialised production in this area have failed both aesthetically and commercially. In fact, anyone wishing to set up a film library or to compile a series of programs for young children would be hard pressed to find more than a few shorts, of unequal merit, and a certain number of commercial films, among them some cartoons, the inspiration and the subject matter of which were sufficiently childlike; in particular, certain adventure films. It is not, however, a matter of specialised production, just of films intelligible to those on a mental level under fourteen. As we know, American films do not often rise above this level. The same is true of the animation films of Walt Disney. It is obvious that films of this sort are in no way comparable to childrens literature properly so called, and of which there is any how not a great deal. Before the disciples of Freud came on the scene, J.-J. Rousseau had already noted that this literature was not without offence. La Fontaine is a cynical moralist, the Countess of Segur is a diabolical, sadomasochistic grandmother. It is now admitted that the Tales of Perrault conceal highly unmentionable symbols and one must concede that it is difficult to counter the arguments of the psychoanalysts. All the same, it