International Review of Educational Cinematography (Jul-Dec 1929)

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THE ROLE AND THE PURPOSE OF THE INTERNATIONAL EDUCATIONAL CINEMATOGRAPHIC INSTITUTE {From the French) A fact that characterises particularly the political, economical and social history of the begining of the 20th. century, is the tendency more and more marked in the different peoples to direct their various efforts and conceptions toward a collaboration and a cooperation which becomes every day more close between the nations, in view of realising progress in all its forms, and to establish a more perfect cognisance amongst the peoples, a solidarity always more close between them, and to establish the foundations of the kingdom of peace amongst the men of goodwill. These principles and these ideas, were already in the minds of statesmen from the end of the 19 th. century, and the attempt to create at the Hague a sort of Peace-Tribunal was a clear indication of this movement and of the pacific tendencies of the peoples. It was reserved for the 20th, century to give reality and life to these tendencies and also practical effect by concrete realizations to the principles which corresponded to the needs of the peoples ; to establish between them the collaboration and cooperation required to give satisfaction to their material and moral interests. Amongst these realizations, it is essential to refer in the first place to the high and generous inititive taken in 1905 by H. M. Emanuel III, King of Italy, to assemble in Rome an international agricultural conference, with the view of resolving, in the international sphere, all the technical, economical and social problems concerning agriculture in all countries of the world. This happy initiative was chiefly intended, in the mind of »ts August Promotor, to create a solidarity amongst the agricultural classes in all countries, thus establishing one of the peace ties amongst the peoples. The undertaking was hard and difficult, but the brilliant successes which have been obtained, the favorable reception which — 12