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FOREWORD
This book is the rcsuk ot an exhibition "The Fihii Yesterday and Today" shown in 1943 during the hrst Basle Fih:iWeek ("Ten Days of Fihii in Basle"), in the Gcwerbemuseum in Basle, in 1944 in the Gewerbenuiseinii in Berne, in 1945 in the Kiuistgcwerbemuscum in Zurich, in 1947 at the Film Festival in Brussels and in 1948 in Amsterdam.
The exhibition was arranged in three parts. In the first part there were 64 panels on the economic, social and artistic problems of the fiction film and its various interrelations. In the second part the educational film and the amateur film (the sub-standard film) were treated. In the third part photographic and projection equipment was shciwn. The exhibition was accompanied by detailed commentary in a catalogue.
The desirability of making the first part of the exhibition and its accompanying text available in the form of a book was frequently suggested, because it summarized in a new form the significance of the economic, social and artistic problems of the film.
Thanks to the initiative of the Holbein Publishing Company and a generous grant from the Government of Basle it was possible to realize this suggestion. The Commission of the Swiss Film Archive in Basle, with whom the original panels had been deposited, agreed to act as editor.
This book is more than a copy of the panels of the exhibition and the accompanying text in the exhibition catalogue. All the panels were completely revised in content and expression. Many of the pictures were replaced by better examples and more were added. The text on the left accompanying the plates in the book was essentially changed from the exhibition catalogue. The pictures on the left side were newly added. Finally, the readjustment to book size of the large, poster-like layouts, designed to be seen from a distance, required a more careful formulation of the material.
Next, a word concerning the division of the work among the authors. The systematic conception of the original exhibition and therefore also ot the book
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