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May, 1930] SOUND FlLMS FOR SURGICAL INSTRUCTION 515
However, at the outset it is essential that an intimate relationship be established between the medical author and the producer, and between both of these agencies and the electrical research arm of the service. There is a type of motion picture producer who waxes enthusiastic over a medical subject, promises much and accomplishes nothing. Then there is his antithesis, the intelligent, dependable, and courteous producer whose purpose is serious and whose aims are constructive. I have had experience with both. In search of a producer with personnel and equipment for animation of illustrations, I was tossed about from pillar to post for a period of four months and disappointed at every turn until recommended by the Eastman Kodak Company to consult the Carpenter-Goldman Laboratories, Incorporated, now the Audio-Cinema, Incorporated, of Long Island City, New York. There, much to my surprise, I found an educational interest in the atmosphere, a keen desire to fulfill the object which I had aimed to achieve, and a determination to do justice to an anatomical, physiological, and surgical subject in a manner which had never before been witnessed. The members of this firm impressed one as understanding the language of the physician. When a humble doctor of very limited financial resources can excite the attention, cooperation, discriminating mind, and assistance of a sound picture expert to evaluate his manuscript for production, there is hope for progress.
Not every subject in medicine lends itself to illustration by motion picture photography or by the introduction of animated drawings. Many that are now thought to be unsuitable will, however, by future study and experience, prove to greatly enhance the body of the teachers' thoughts and ideas. The Canti films by Dr. Ronald G. Canti of St. Bartholomew's Hospital, London, on the growth of cancer, now being shown under the auspices of the American Society for the Control of Cancer, are an example of such an achievement by the use of photomicrography. The Great Peril and its trailer of cartoons entitled By the Way are to be distributed by this same organization to the public in the near future. These films are without voice reproduction.
The Harvard University Film Foundation, which two years ago was an idea, is now a definite plan for "the establishment of a center for the production and collection of scientific and educational films in collaboration with the Harvard Faculty." They have released twenty reels of films of the highest standard in the fields of geography,