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nothing will amount to the value of photos taken by the objectif, which reproduce the movements of life, greatly slackened on the screen if accompanied by good verbal commentaries.
The cinema must not only be an infinitely precious auxiliary for the instruction and education of youth. It is essential not to neglect any further, what I would call, its recreative value. It is not enough, that pegagogues use the cinema, with ever improving and more ingenious methods, for strictly scholastic purposes ; what I consider no less important, is to supply the children and the young with films which divert and entertain as well as with those which instruct. Films, which are not, as is often the case now a days, mere trashy novels more insignificant than those offered to the adult audience, or so called comic scenes, painfully lacking in witt !
It is well that the action of those interested in the problems of childhood, should be protective with regard to the cinema. But it should above all be constructive. To discard the bad films is not sufficient. Good ones must be provided, and should they not
In our next number, will appear an article due to a great scholar and apostle: professor Maurice Rouvroy, Director of the Central Establishment for the special observation of children, and laboratories .of psvcho-pedagogy in Moll. Professor Rouvroy — who is an expert in these matters, has studied the problem with great attentiton for many years and has realised noteworthy experiments which he describes in the above mentioned article.
If any reader of our Review wishes to collaborate and expose his opinions, specific studies or experiencies, he is cordially invited to do so. Essays should have a technical purport, without controversial character, but be equal to the noble debate which such a study and inquiry demands*
In fact, discussion is of exceptional importance and can help to enlighten the executive organs and the special commission of experts which will collaborate with the Institute, as well as the International Committee for Child Welfare, the first which faced with competent knowledge and authority the problems it now pursues in accordance with the Institute.
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