International Review of Educational Cinematography (Jul-Dec 1929)

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rable applications and its subsidiary and integrative discoveries has led the Institute to undertake the collection of the world's patents relating to cinematography and at the same time to provide for their classification, selection, filing and examination. This work will in due course render possible the formation of an extensive archive which will be at the disposal of all students who will thus be in a position to apply to the Institute for information regarding the precedents of certain principles or systems. This Review will at the same time start the systematic publication, divided according to subject and speciality, of all patents registered with those States in which the relative examinations are carried out under proper control. Pending the gradual organization of the various sections and services of the Institute, the work of study and investigation is also being pursued in the field of cinematography as applied to agricidtural teaching and propaganda, hygienic and social propaganda, the various grades of teaching, the problems of the new methodology and pedagogy, the orientation, professional training and scientific organization of labour. At the same time, with a view to enabling the various departments to acquire a perfect knowledge of the activities of other countries, hundreds of newspapers and Reviews are systematically read, all the books which appear on the cinema are collected and read with the greatest care, various files are used for consideration by the officials concerned. Side by side with this work, an inquiry into the social and moral aspects of the cinema is being pursued. This work which has been started already, is inspired not by negative criteria or by opposition to the cinematographic industry, but by a spirit of fervent and sincere co-operation. To enquire into the direct and indirect influence which the screen exercises upon the spirit and education of peoples, sexes and minors does not imply a preconceived condemnation of the cinema; its object is, on the contrary, to indicate to the industry the paths to be followed, the mistakes to be corrected, in the interest of the producers themselves, who otherwise will see artificial but necessary barriers being set up bv law , prohibiting the admission of minors to cinema halls and introducing several forms of censorship. These studies and