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his name being inscribed in the list of pioneers of the scientific cinema.
We will not say more on this subject, but refer those who from necessity or curiosity wish to follow the long and tortuous course of the cinema through its many transformations and its contributions to social and spiritual life, and those who wish to become acquainted with the work of its apostles, (le Collette, le Bruneau, Paul Drouard, and others who are still in the thick of the fight), to Part IV of the « History of the Cinematograph from Its Origins to the Present Day » (i).
On November 23, 1915, M. L. Breton, Deputy to the Chamber, placed on the table the draft of a resolution, requesting the Minister of Education to form an extra parliamentary Commission to study the best means of diffusing the utilization of the cinema in the different branches of instruction.
Indeed on March 23, 1916, this Commission was formed by special decree : but its report, entrusted to M. August Besson, did not see the light till 1920. This commission composed of parliamentarians, directors and inspectors of education, professors and industrialists, assisted at numerous experiments: then convinced of the practical possibilities of the cinema, and desirous of promoting them, it invited the Syndicalist Chamber to make every possible effort to substitute films of a nature calculated to exalt generous and noble sentiments such as patriotism for those likely to produce a harmful effect on the imagination of the young and even on uneducated adult audiences.
The ministers who have encouraged, the educational film are numerous ; we will only mention a few, such as : M. Paul Painleve, Andre Honnorat, Edouard Herriot, Leon Berard, Henri Cheron, Richard Ouenille.
(1) Histoire du Cinematographs de ses origines jusqu' a nos jours. Preface by I. L. Breton, former Minister, Member of the Institut. A work honoured by subscriptions from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and of Agriculture, the Undersecretariat of technical instruction of the City of Paris, the Councils General of the Seine, the City of Lyons, etc. Paris 1925. Gauthier Villars and Editions du Cine'opse, pp. 515-587.
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