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By the cinema language frontiers and even the limits of civilizations are overcome. The customs, the manner of living, the fashions, the ideas with which the public conceives social or private relations, all in fact, is material for the cinema that penetrates through various peoples, and if the films produced and presented to the public have for their object the elevation of the intellectual and moral level of the individual, it follows that the film exerts in this way its educational mission and contributes largely to create a solidarity of sentiment amongst the different peoples.
To-day the film has become a means of propaganda stronger than the newspaper.
The film gives to the citizens a more exact notion of the civilization of other peoples, the peasant is made to acquire a better understanding of city life and viceversa. The result is that customs, traditions, hygiene and social relations may beneficially be influenced by the film.
From this follows the imperious necessity of watching and improving film production, and in consequence also the necessity to insure the technical quality of the film. From the above considerations follows the essential and dominant role of Educational, allotted to the International Educational Cinematographic Institute by its promoters, who might rightly be called « The Gothenberg of to-day ».
The encouragement and the impulse given by the International Educational Cinematographic Institute in spheres so closely concerned with the progress of civilization: instruction, art, industry, agriculture, commerce, hygiene, social education etc., the diffusion of educational films in the various countries of this great international official organism, acting as a sort of technical regulator for the production of films in all countries constitutes also a guide for the direction to be given, from the educational point of view, to this new and powerful factor for the diffusion of thought, *. e. the Cinema of to-day.
To accomplish this high and noble mission, the moral aid and the material and financial assistance of the States will not be