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role assigned by its statutes to the International Educational Cinematographic Institute.
Its social mission is destined to have considerable importance. If it is true that in our time all the peoples are trying to their utmost to diffuse instruction amongst their peoples, it is not the less true that one sees everywhere a general dearth of education. It is therefore education which must be placed in the first rank, receive the best attention, and become the ideal achievement of the new Institution. This has been perfectly understood and realized by its organisers who have given to it a name which suggests a sort of definition of its object, « Educational Cinematograph ». Without doubt, the cinema is called on to exercise a great influence in the general development and instruction of the peoples, and the efforts accomplished up to the present are already considerable.
But it is the educational role of this new instrument for the diffusion of thought that appears to us to represent its particular essence.
The new means for the diffusion of thought and ideas the progress of which appears to be a special feature of the 20th, Century, represents at the present day, in the hands of the Governments through the organisations created for the purpose, not only an instrument of control but above all a particularly efficient means of impressing the spirit of the peoples and by the repetition of the imagery, to exert a direct influence on the development of national education : It is therefore essential to examine from the start these new problems, the evolution of which call into play the relations of influences among the peoples, as well as constantly increasing international collaboration. No one ignores the influence of the film on the customs and on the sentiments of the community. All the spectators in a Cinema look for entertainment rather than a lesson.
Nevertheless, all pictures possess an instructive force, good .or bad, attractive or repulsive, and by the sentiments of symphathy or antipathy that they arouse, they constitute a factor that represents in reality a powerful means for the education of the masses.
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