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For my part, I do not think that the remedy lies here. The success of the cinema is a fact against which it is vain to react. It is impossible to go against the stream, but its irregular course can be so directed as to obtain better results for the general good. But how ?
From an educational and pedagogical point of view, it is more and more evident that the cinema is a great factor for instruction. The cinematograph is an object lesson which enables the poorest child of the humblest primary school to see the wonders of the furthest regions of the World. For the teachers, it is an excellent procedure for demonstration, and a means of awakening in the child the habit of observation. Be it for natural history, geography or history, they always find documentary information and even educational subjects which can give the scholar better than any verbal recital, an object lesson which, to quote Montaigne : « happens like a meeting and passes without being felt »,
How much time has been devoted to the teaching of hygiene, botany, and mechanics ! To initiate the pupil in the phenomena of the circulation of the blood, the microscopic system, the processes of the germination of plants, the analysis of movement,
Mr. Posner, the Minister of State, Count Carton de Wiart, the French Ambassador, Mr. Regnault, the Spanish Delegate Mr. Amador, the Delegate of the Red Cross League, Mr. Humbert, Mademoiselle Hein, the British Delegate Mr. Harris, the Delegate of the International Labour Office, Captain Johnston and other delegates expressed their approval to the schemes proposed by the Director in the name of the. Institute.
The Minister of State, Count Carton de Wiart proposed a resolution which was unanimously approved, inviting the International Educational Cinematographic Institute, to examin with particular care, the question of recreational films specially adapted to minors.
In fulfilment of the promise made to the Committee for Child Welfare, and in accordance with the decisions of the Committee of the Institute, the executive organs have already begun to investigate the problem.
Concerning the problems of childhood and the cinematograph, as mentioned in the preceeding note — our Review intends to establish a vast debate and discussion.
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