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" If we could get enough money from membership to carry on our work, we should prefer it to receiving a grant."*
Meanwhile, the film trade has already advanced the Institute £1,000 free of interest (see above, page 31) ; and it has also received a number of " extraordinarily fine private donations " (To-day's Cinema, November 27th, 1933).
6. CONCLUSION.
The need for some kind of constructive policy in regard to the Cinema, for some influence other than commercial to make itself felt throughout the whole field of cinematography — and particularly in regard, not so much to the occasional educational film (which is normally quite unexceptionable), even less to the classroom film (which is mainly a domestic matter for teachers), as to the ordinary entertainment or "feature " filing — this need remains. It is the need which has lain behind much valuable work by both individuals and groups during the last twenty years ; which inspired the original, however defective, proposal for a National Film Institute ; which caused many, both within Parliament and without, to welcome the establishment of the Cinematograph Fund ; wThich made some of even the most critical observers of the original Institute idea hope, until the very last minute, that
* Interview in To-day's Cinema, January 3rd, 1934.
If This was clearly the intention of Parliament when setting up the Cinematograph Fund " for the purpose of encouraging the use and development of the cinematograph as a means of entertainment and instruction." {Parliamentary Debates : Vol. 267, No. 122, Cols. 1,824-70.) Lord Hailsham put the Government's desire still more explicitly when he stated, in the House of Lords on July 7th, 1932, that the Fund was to be used " for the purpose of the improvement of films and of the character of cinema entertainments " {Parliamentary Debates— Vol. 85, No. 72, Col. 657).
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