Quote:
"Nicely edited and timed; and the introduction of passages of actual talk by characters portrayed is achieved with a good deal more smoothness on the whole than has been customary. The impressionistic effect of a background voice, declaiming messages supposed to be inscribed on post cards shown in a heap on the screen, is however forced. [...] It should be also remarked that the purpose of the film is likely to be far from plain to an average audience; the urge to mask the propaganda-element has been only too successful, and this lends the whole film a vague air of obscurity."
-- Monthly Film Bulletin

Source:
Monthly Film Bulletin. "Calendar of the Year." Review of Calendar of the Year. Monthly Film Bulletin, vol. 4, no. 37, January 31, 1937. (p. 46)