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Cinematography came next, after a very interesting series of studies and apparatuses. Which sometimes had even a fantastic or magic appearance. It surpassed by a single stroke the power of appeal of both word and book. The life of men and things, far and near, the life easy to understand or that hidden from us for infinite reasons, the life of microscopic beings contained in a drop of water, everything appears on the luminous screen neatly and plainly with a clearness and suggestive efficacy which no other medium possesses, and surpassing in descriptive and persuasive power the most impassioned words of educators and the most analytic and cleverest writings of scientists.
The cinema is the most comprehensible language in its great simplicity. It appeals directly to the eye and the visual representation, causing a perfect state of emotion and sensibility, fixes on our mind and soul conceptions which are not easily forgotten — sensations complete in analysis and synthesis — , and permits to see and therefore to feel, through the psychical reflections of the vision, what no word or written description, however precise, could possibly render.
Our Review desires in fact to become a free field for this form of activity . At the same time it will be the mirror reflecting the work carried on by the International Educational Cinematographic Institute.
The book, the word, the lantern slide are auxiliary factors of science and knowledge but do not attain the limit which only moving pictures can reach. This accounts for the fact that motion pictures are destined in future to dominate more and increasingly better the life of the peoples and the intellectual movement of the various Nations.
The first and fundamental result of this will be a mutual and precise understanding, a mutual co-operation among all the peoples and the cinema will be regarded as one of the greatest and most powerful factors towards social peace, especially if, by divulging from one continent to another documentary visions of the life, strength and characteristic aspect of the other countries, it may help to dispel the erroneous or false impressions created by the words or writings of men conveying a one-sided or impassioned view or conception.
The fundamental purpose of the International Educational Cinematographic Institute is to help knowledge and science through