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FILM AND EDUCATION
to coordinate the efforts of all those interested in the production and use of scientific films, including particularly educators, industrialists, film producers and distributors, engineers, scientists and other professional workers. The work of previewing and evaluation is divided between panels or committees operating in various segments of this field; the medical committee is especially active. Special catalogues and a program service make the findings of these panels available to members. The formation of local Scientific Film Societies is encouraged so that special public showings of science films will be thus promoted.
(2) The National Labor Union Film Committee — organized to serve as an advisory body to the National Film Board's Trade Union Circuits which carried film into union meetings during the war, this committee now selects and recommends programs with a special application to labor. Local unions book films through their community film library and avail themselves of the volunteer projection service to get them shown. The committee comprises representatives of the two large labor congresses, workers' education and the film interests.
(3) Industrial Film Councils — have been set up in a ' number of the large cities to provide projection service and
special films to industrial plants in their area. A library of specialized industrial films is being built up covering such subject fields as supervisory and vocational training, safety, health, employee relations, etc. Already there is evidence that the pooling of interest in such specialized fields will lead to the production of films in Canada to serve these needs. The Industrial Division of the National Film Society is coordinating the work in this field, which will include also the distribution of public relations films for industry.
(4) Films for Women — sponsored by the National Film Board, this service includes the supplying of a catalogue of
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