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It iias the Canadian staffed oonnrercial ^^lits to dravi on JssOGicted Screen Hcv/s of Llontreclj Audio Piotiires of Toronto, and others in the w'est now risini^, to e:.iinence all of v;hom have good technicians and facilities. In addition to Canadian directors of the calibre of Evelyn Spice and J. Booth Scott, it can call upon the ready services of young Canadians anxious to learn the creative side of filin v^.ork<. All that is bein^ contributed fror;i the British dociuiientary traoition is the biueprr.nt and tne viewpoixit.
By March 1940 the first filros of Canada's nevv scheme of national projection are schedule ci to appear. A concrete, Qcmstructive plan has been set afoot since the linperial Relations Tr'..st first invited John Orierson to visit Canada in 1938, lie, far-signtedness of the-TiUst in teri.porarily releasing I.Lr. CTri.o. on for tne Canadian Filn GoiVluu ssionership has ensured that the plan should become action.
lilTERrATIO.iaL D0Ji]LIEI!5TAHY jDISTRIHITIOK
ForeiTiOot nev;3 from the United States is the setting up of International Film Center, qliq of the most ai'.bitious steps in the history of the documentary film. Incorporated in iyovember, lO'o'J , to facilitate the international exchange of educational films. Interne tional Film Center v<ill operate on. a grant m.ade by the Rocir.efeller Foundation to the i^Iational Com?ittee of the U.S,i-. en International Intellectual Cooperation. Eas^'' interchange depends on tv/o tnir:gs: one, an impartial evalviating body v/nose certificate v/ill satisfy all concerned that the film is education, not propaganda; t vvo , a coordinating body through v^liich importers and exporters may efficiently conoact each other. Lignatories of tiie 1953 Geneva Convention en^^oy such facilities tnrough the League-sponsored Paris Institute of Cinematography, vdiich issues certificates and acts as clearing nouse for distributors. Under the Convention, educational filmis circulate betv^een signatories duty free.
The Center V/ill coordinate e::isting Fi.achin'^ry rather than set up its own. The Motion Pictvn-'e Project of the American Council on Education V/ill prcbaDly act as the evaluating body. The Association of School Fi.lra Libraries, the Ivlu.seum of IiCodern Art FiliT'. Library/, the Anerican Scandinavian Founoation, and the Institute of Pacificx Relations are among those who \^ill participate in physical distribution. Members of the Board are James T. Snot\^;ell, George F, Zook, Luther G-ulich, Richard J. V/alsh, Henry G-oddard Leach, and V.'illiam Berien. Executive Director is .Donald Slesinger. Its officers are at Merican Film Center, 45, Roe.vefeller Plaza , Hevv York City.