{"id":26526,"date":"2023-04-13T11:00:17","date_gmt":"2023-04-13T15:00:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/circulatingnow.nlm.nih.gov\/?p=26526"},"modified":"2023-04-20T14:03:37","modified_gmt":"2023-04-20T18:03:37","slug":"a-child-went-forth-1942","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/circulatingnow.nlm.nih.gov\/2023\/04\/13\/a-child-went-forth-1942\/","title":{"rendered":"A Child Went Forth, 1942"},"content":{"rendered":"

By Sarah Eilers ~<\/em><\/p>\n

The 1942 film A Child Went Forth<\/em><\/a> is charming, reassuring, earthy, poetic.<\/p>\n

In the opening black and white sequence, young children stumble-walk their way through fields of wildflowers on a summer day. In the next frames, they traverse a narrow road in the countryside, their adult caretakers alongside. Our narrator, the actor Lloyd Gough<\/a>, paraphrases Walt Whitman<\/a>:<\/p>\n

\"A<\/a>\r\nThere was a child went forth every day.\r\nAnd the first object he looked upon...\r\n   that object he became...\r\n...that object became part of him for the day\r\n   or a certain part of the day or for many\r\n   years or stretching cycles of years.\r\n<\/em><\/pre>\n
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