Multiple MatchingExercise 17 of 70

Feel-good films stretch back right into the early days of cinema. The Brits were pioneers of the form. Producer Cecil Hepworth's Rescued by Rover (1905), a winsome yarn about a dog retrieving a kidnapped baby, was an early example of feel-good film-making. What distinguished it was the tempo. The film-makers used…

• In which text does the writer praise the quality of some more serious films?
• In which text does the writer point out the value of feel-good films in difficult economic times?