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Public health propaganda, however, presupposes the existence of a solid system of hygiene principles and also the continous training of a considerable number of health experts capable of turning propaganda to advantage and of directing it towards the supreme aim of the struggle against disease.
The cinema can doubtless render immense services in giving a practical and scientific training to these experts. The difficulties in the way are in this matter greater than those which had to be overcome in connection with the employment of the cinema for popular health instruction.
A few months ago in Geneva the the League Health Committee was shown a series of films prepared by various bodies and intended for use in the higher training courses for health experts. We were all agreed in recognizing the beauty of certain of these films, but at the same time we came to the unavoidable conclusion that the main object for which they were made was seldom attained.
The outstanding difficulty lies in the clear and accurate rendering of the really instructive and important elements in the subject treated. It often happens that the films merely deal with scenery — which may be magnificent but not instructive enough or that it gives too much prominence to trivial or tedious details, leaving the vital elements in the background.
There should be established, therefore, an intimate cooperation and a deeply-rooted sense of mutual understanding between the health experts and those who know all the resources of the cinema. The League Health Committee had this cooperation in view when it proposed that its Public Health Instruction SubCommittee (which deals with the teaching of hygiene in the schools of all grades, above all in the Universities and in the special public health schools) should become almost the technical advisory body of the International Educational Cinematographic Institute on public health problems. In view of the fact that the members of this sub -committee belonged to various countries, they would be in a position to tender useful suggestions in regard to the conditions, customs and needs of each people and in this way to help the International E. C. I. in the fulfilment of its highly humanitarian mission.
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