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national scale, then on the international scale : the erection of National Film Centres which shall be under the direction of the clergy, authorised by the Hierarchy. These National Centres will comprise organisations for moral classification of films, for cultural development and for specialist problems.
Examples of the cultural organisations can be seen in France in O.F.D.A. (Office Catholique Internationale du Cinema) and U.C.C. (Union Catholique du Cinema).
On the international plane we have the Office Catholique Internationale du Cinema (O.C.I.C.) which encourages the work of Catholic Film Action on the international as well as on the national plane. It has organised Catholic Film Congresses, the most recent one being that held in Brussels last June.
It has arranged an international exchange of 16mm. (substandard gauge) films which should be of value to projection groups in parishes as well as to educational authorities.
A project which is under consideration at the moment is the founding of an International Film Review. It is intended that it shall, by means of contributions from cineasts of international distinction, help to build up a true philosophy of the cinema.
Another international organisation which has a direct and valuable bearing on Catholic Film Action is the Instituto Pro Deo in Rome which is the headquarters of Catholic Action and concentrates on the critical training of Catholics in all the fields of artistic endeavour, in film as in other departments.
It is necessary that all Catholic organisations should co-operate in the work of Catholic Film Action. How? By making the film and the cinema a cultural subject, having a proper place on their programmes with other cultural subjects. By discussion groups. By Press notices devoted to certain films or film conferences. By arranging special programmes of films. By liaison with the Catholic Film Society. By co-operation in the organisation of Summer Schools of Films.
Catholics are very much behind the times in this country in this respect. The totalitarians have the advantage of us in this matter. The film cannot be ignored with safety. It is said that the film is a drug. If so, we must confess that we have not yet discovered the anodyne.
writer is a convert to Visual Aids in Education. It happened
some years ago, and in this way: she had been given an explanation of the propagation of waves, rotational, transverse and longitudinal; and being no scientist, she found it completely mystifying — but when she saw the same facts illustrated by a silent film, the processes became intelligible in a few seconds, the more so as the teacher shifted the picture from the screen to the blackboard upon which he was able to trace the movement of the waves.
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