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THE CINEMA IN SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH
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manner of movement of individuals which give them their individuality and characteristics by mere naked eye observation. The study of individual motor action of persons would require the use of the motion picture.
I became convinced of this by studying the movements of an orchestra conductor.
The film should also have considerable utility if used for expert proof of personality by fixing definitely the fleeting but characteristic movements, attitudes and gestures of an individual, so as to present them in the form of irrefutable evidence.
The individual scientist who uses scientific films for his own analyses ought to keep it clearly in mind that the object of his precious material does not end with him. It is inconceivable that motion pictures made in clinics and laboratories by scientists should be kept to a restricted circle and afterwards be forgotten in film archives. For purely practical reasons, and also to assist the progress of science, such material ought to be distributed in the form of scientific didactic motion pictures.
Only a film manual, put together with the collaboration of all those who use the film for scientific purposes, is capable of giving a proper knowledge and understanding of the various motor processes and disturbances of the human body. Work has already begun in Germany on a list of all extant medical motion pictures. Some small attempt only has so far been made to place such material at the disposal of those anxious to make a didactic use of it. These attempts ought to be supported by a central body. An International Central Institute would be able to avoid useless repetitions of scientific films by a process of concentration. A list of existing pictures would assist the scientist in his choice.
The idea that it might be possible to know from one week to another the state of the production and the available quantity of scientific films ought to give a strong help to any initiative for classification of didactic pictures. Finally, a central body could easily overcome the difficulty of financing the enterprise, in this way freeing labour and energy for the benefit of science.