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ACTIVITY IN GERMANY
German education authorities have decided to introduce the cinema as a means of instruction wherever films can speak more impressively to the learning child than any other medium. For the thorough organization of this new method of teaching a special government bureau has been created. This Reichs-S telle fur den [Interne htsfilm will supply some 60,000 schools with 16 mm. projectors. The production of the necessary films will be entrusted to suitable directors under the supervision of an expert teacher. The films will be chiefly silent and will be supplied to schools accompanied by a textbook containing explanations, short lectures, literature and other material for the teacher. Every school child throughout Germany will contribute 20 pfennigs towards the realization of this plan.
Another educational film organization just formed is the Reichsvereinigigung Deutscher Lichtspiel-Stellen, which aims to develop the cinema as a means of cultural and instructional entertainment. Affiliated to it are over 3000 other bodies, such as educational associations, scientific organizations, cultural societies, sporting clubs, religious film societies. Attached is a profit-sharing renting organization and an information bureau which advises societies regarding programmes, etc. Foreign as well as German films of worth are given support. Man of Arran and PaWs Bridal Trip (Danish) have already drawn record attendances. Besides the erection and operation of special educational cinemas in the principal German cities, the cultivation of the full-length feature educational film is one of the main objects of this new organization.
Among forthcoming films planned by Ufa is still another version of the life and death of Joan of Arc, whose part will be played by Angela Salokker of the Munich State Theatre. A musical film on the youth of Johan Sebastian Bach is to be produced for the 250th anniversary of his birth. Another German composer, Weber, will figure in a new Cicero film, Invitation to the Dance. The central figure in another film will be Oliver Cromwell, under whose iron rule England had an early experience of dictatorship.
Emil Jannings, who has recently returned after an absence of several years, has just finished a Deka film, The Old and the Young King, dealing with the conflict between Frederic the Great and his father. Europe Films has announced the production of a film founded on the life of Rembrandt.
One of the most important events of the present season was the premiere of the Bavaria-Tofa production, Peer Gynt, at the Berlin Capitol. Hans Albers plays the principal part. The direction is by Dr. Wendhausen and the photography by Carl Hoffman.
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