A remarkable first film of a director now famous, showing that people are much the same though the details of their daily lives may be different. The pace may be slow but the content is mainly absorbing. It has been left to the Indian cinema to give us a picture of a childhood which preserves under the shadow of experience not only its innocence but its gaiety. Not to have seen the cinema of Ray means existing in the world without seeing the sun or the moon. His picture has the quality of intimate, unforgettable experience. Any picture as loose in structure or as listless in tempo as this one is would barely pass as a rough cut with the editors in Hollywood. Cast: Kanu Banerjee, Karuna Banerjee, Uma Das Gupta, Subir Bannerjee, Chunibala. Writer Director: Satyajit Ray, Novels: Bhibuti Bashan Bannerjee, Director of Photography: Subrata Mitra, Music: Ravi Shankar, Art director: Banshi Chandragupta, Film Editor: Dulal Dutta. Production Credits: Government of West Bengal (Satyajit Ray).