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the complicated problems and laws of heredity, with degeneration and the necessity of a selective breed of worthy human beings. Recently an excellent recreational film, « Inherited Instincts », through a purely criminal plot skilfully enforces the old demand that criminals should be debarred from having children in order to prevent degeneration.
The Reichsausschuss fur hygienische Volksbelehrung (Committee for Popular Hygienic Instruction) which held a « Health Week » in 1926, making wide use of film propaganda, following the nation-wide campaign of popular education, afterwards started a film center which was responsible for the recreational films above mentioned. Also on the occasion of the already mentioned « National Prevention of Accidents Week » the Reich Committee for Popular Hygienic Instruction made a film with a simple but humorous plot, dealing with domestic hygiene and the prevention of accidents. This caused a popular sensation inasmuch as it was the first German colour film of the Sirius Colour Film Co. But the committee for popular hygienic instruction was careful to keep public interest for hygiene awake by scattering short propaganda films throughout the cinema programs . The Eccentric Film firm (Zorn and Tiller) produced a short series of grotesque drawings with the title « Merry Hygiene » which met with great applause in the moving picture theatres as program extras. The action was carried out by two fantastic characters who, introduced by means of animated drawings into natural photographs and appearing, as it were, in daily life, offered their eccentricities and adventures in the cause of hygienic propaganda. Similar films were made for the Reich Committee by the Kraska Film firm. The Ufa, in collaboration with the Reichs Committee, produced a « Grippe » film, which was revived whenever an epidemic threatened.
Mention must be made of a recent feature of cultural film production, namely the partnership of film and book. At the time of the Steinach film, asmallvolume « Medical Advice supplementary to Consultations » had been published by the Kraska Film Co. as a sort cf complement to the film: it explained the complex system of
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