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into a discussion which must be profitless? For there cannot possibly be a lack of arguments. Recognised forms of monochrome art have always existed: sepia, etching, line drawing, and even sculpture. For coloured sculpture has achieved fashion rarely, and success hardly ever. (The Greeks are no help, as we cannot properly judge what their colours were like, and, at all events, there is the tattered argument of Greek colour blindness.) It is the monochrome forms that have been most easily realised, expressed, and probably understood. This does not, of course, constitute any final argument against the use of colour, but it does tritely underline the fact that the uncoloured fi'm has a separate development no less obvious than the silent film. Even upon the lowest, the "escape" level of argument, consider the verisimilitudinous horrors of dirty reds and foggy yellows. The magnates should beware.
This is only the fringe of an argument about which technicians, cineastes, symposial celebrities, and correspondence columnists will in time clamour in earnest conviction and bad journalism. Only it is strange that they have been so long in starting, and it is desirable that those sincerely interested in the intelligent cinema should consider the aesthetic appropriateness of colour-films before it is too late.
THE FILM IN EDUCATION
The Scottish Educational Cinema Society — founded in 1929, with headquarters in Glasgow — has done much experimental and propaganda work in the educational film sphere. Though the classroom film in its varied aspects has been extensively discussed at winter session lectures, the society has been distinguished rather by its practical approach to a problem already somewhat overburdened by investigation. Special classroom films have been prepared and exhibited in Glasgow schools, and the Committee is at present engaged on a scheme of film work which covers the geography of Scotland. During the summer, J. C. Elder, founder of the Society, toured Scotland with a cameraman and covered some three thousand miles in search of material for the Ideal Cinemagazine and the Gaumont Sound Mirror, much of which will also be used for classroom films. Among the other activities of an enterprising society is the organisation of special matinees for children. The annual subscription is 2s. 6d., and the Hon. Sec. is D. Fraser, 129 Bath Street, Glasgow.
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