International Review of Educational Cinematography (Jul-Dec 1929)

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film has greatly developed, and governmental and private offices, lend out educational and scholastic films free of charge. In Sweden, cinematographic projection has become a normal part of the school curriculum. Teachers with special degrees act as cinema operators. A society created for that purpose, distributes cultural films. It is a well known fact, that the educational and didactic cinematograph has made great strides in Italy and that Rome is the worthy site of the Intertational Educational Cinematographic Institute. Also in this field, the geniality of Italy's Prime Minister is apparent. In 1924, before any of his predecessors had given this subject a thought, he understood the possibilities offered by the cinema as an instrument for the social and intellectual development of the people. He established the Luce, which in the course of a few years has progressed flourishingly without weighing on the State Budget. The Hon. Fedele. Minister of Public Instruction, studied the actual organisation of the big enterprises in the scholastic field, and created the 19 film-libraries (one for each province in Italy) which are run by the R. R. Provosts. Every provincial film-library has a rich collection of films supplied by the Luce which are carefully examined and chosen by a special commission of teachers. The distribution of films to the various schools, is made gratis. The Hon. Fedele has also established the first 30 film-libraries for propaganda of hygiene with films provided by the Luce. These film-libraries, have been multiplied and endowed with new films, through the initiative of the Hon. Belluzzo, the present Minister for Public Instruction. The experiment of the State, has been further developed by private initiative and that of Institutions. It is no exaggeration to assert, that all over Italy, firms have nobly competed to supply the schools with projecting apparatuses and complete collections of films. I will quote data concerning elementary schools, taken from recent statistical investigations (not yet completed), ordered by the Minister Belluzzo. — 28