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two Office has recognised to be suitable for educational purposes ;. secondly, because when educational films are shown in public cinema-halls, they are granted a considerable reduction on the ordinary entertainment tax. Complete exemption from this tax is accorded in the case of a display in which nine tenths of the films shown are of a cultural character.
Two other groups of cultural films are recognised, namely , those made for popular education and artistic films. In both cases they may be entertainment films (Spielfilme) ; they must, however, either be of an educational value because of the way in which they deal with, or present a problem, or the creative power of their author must be such as to make of them works of art. These films also are accorded a reduction on the entertainment tax. By their work these Cinema Offices, therefore, encourage the production of good films, acting directly from the moral point of view and indirectly from the financial standpoint, while their decisions are taken as a standard in the demand of good films.
The task of giving advice on artistic, educational or cultural films rests to a very great extent with the Office of the Central Institute because the film production of Southern Germany is far below the level reached by the Northern and Central. States. On the other hand, the number of films examined by the Berlin Cinema Office is small compared with that of films submitted to the Berlin Control Bureau. The fact should not be forgotten that the Berlin Control Bureau has to examine every year more than 2.000.000 metres of film, representing the whole production of Northern and Central Germany on the market ; of these films, only a few are submitted to the Cinema Office, that is to say, such pictures as are considered by the producers to be superlatively good. In its turn, the Cinema Office subjects these picked films to a fairly severe examination.
In the course of eight and a half years the Berlin Control Bureau has rejected slightly over 460 films ont of almost 21.000. These figures should be compared, on a percentage basis, with the following number of films rejected or passed by the Cinema Office.
From April 1,1919 to the end of March, 1929
— 150