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The City of Paris, acting on the suggestions of M. De Vill and Leon Riotor, Municipal Counsellors, has, since 1921 taken a series of initiatives which have had a most favorable influence. The Municipal Council has thus set up cinemas in schools, established the Paris Cinematheque (Film Collection) and a commission of Enquiry and has, since 1923, included in the municipal budget a substantial sum dedicated to producing films for the purposes of vocational selection. All this was done in perfect accord with the General Direction of Technical Instruction. Encouraged by public and administrative support the cinema is progressing slowly but surely.
It is true that though the screen has been installed in thousands of schools, grammar schools, institutions and Faculties, it has not yet been officially established as a compulsary adjunct, but it is none the less, officially approved, encouraged and supported, and we have every reason to hope that in the near future, thanks to the National Office of the Educational Cinema, the foundations of which M. Herriot formerly laid, cinographic teaching will become compulsory.
We should note in this connection that ten or twelve thousand official establishments already possess apparatus for moving pictures. If we add to this figure the free schools, the boarding schools, the soldiers' hostels and clubs, and including the afterschool institutions, we count the different foundations, municipalities and associations of all sorts, it is no exaggeration to say that from sixteen to eighteen thousand apparatus are ready for use for school and educational films.
Within a short time this number will be doubled as a result, on the one hand, of apparatus better suited for the purpose and the use of films of smaller dimensions and more accessible in price; and on the other hand, of the multiplication appropriate films and the extension of regional or even local film collections in accordance with a methodical program now in process of realization both at the Ministry of Public Instruction and at the Ministry of Agriculture. As an innovation, several commissions composed of educational authorities and technical experts have been nominated
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