International Review of Educational Cinematography (Jul-Dec 1929)

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tional organisations placed under the authority of the League of Nations is the International Educational Cinematographic Institute. This official organism comes also within the sphere of the special organisations the object of which is to facilitate and assist the general aims of the League of Nations, although directing its particular efforts to a very important object which, as stated in art. 2 of its Statutes, consists in ((promoting the production, the diffusion and the exchange amongst various countries of educational films relating to instruction, art, industry, agriculture, commerce, hygiene, social education, etc., by employing all the means that its Governing Body may consider necessary ». From this enumeration, it may be gathered how important is the role assigned to the International Educational Cinematographic Institute. Educational films interest all branches of the activities on which scientific, artistic, industrial, commercial and other forms of progress depend. The task is difficult, hard and complex, and in our opinion can only be realised by a close, cordial and whole hearted collaboration and understanding between the existing international associations which by their Statutes, could deal with similar activities, as those which the International Educational Cinematographic Institute is required to occupy itself, from a technical point of view so as to realise the purposes which have been assigned to it. It is not our object to make a special study of the Statutes of the International Educational Cinematographic Institute. The Statutes were drafted by the Italian Government and were submitted for approval to the Council of the League of Nations, taking into account the observations put forward by the Commission of Intellectual Co-operation attached to the League of Nations, by the Commission for Child Welfare and by the International Labour Office. The Council of the League of Nations approved the Statutes definitely on August 30th, 1928. We may be permitted to point out, that art. 6 of the Statutes, provided, from now onwards, that cordial collaboration that we — iJ