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Thus the Reich Minister of Food and Agriculture has called our particular attention to the Ze?itralinstitut fiir Erziehung und Unterricht (the Central Institute of Education and Teaching) and to the Deutscher Bildspielbund (German Cinematographic Federation), both of Berlin, as the proper organs to collaborate with us in our common endeavour, since there are no government organizations in Germany concerned with agricultural films.
The Reich Ministry of Food and Agriculture and the Prussian Ministry of Agriculture, State Lands and Forests have recourse to the Film Collection of the Central Institute of Education which, though it is not a government institution, is considered throughout Germany as an institution at the service of the several States for all that concerns the domain of teaching.
. Both of these Ministries obtain from the Institute all information respecting the development of agricultural cinematography and they take a direct part in its activities through the medium of their representatives in the Commission for the examination of agricultural films attached to the Institute.
This Commission consists of some 60 persons chosen from among authorities on agricultural questions belonging to the Ministries, German agricultural societies and associations, and Higher Schools of Agriculture and Veterinary Science.
Among the organizations interested in agricultural cinematography, the German Agricultural Society and the several Chambers of Agriculture, which are all federated to the Prussian Central Chamber of Agriculture, deserve special mention. The latter organization does much good work by subsidizing on a big scale the production of good agricultural films by the ordinary film producers.
Lastly, we may mention the Deutscher Vereinfiir landlicher Wohlfahrts und Heimatpflege (German Association to Promote Agricultural Prosperity and for the Preservation of Local Customs) on account of its special relations with the Central Institute of Education and Teaching. This association has organized a Central Committee for the exhibition of films in rural districts. The Central Committee, which is in close touch with the Film Service of the Central Institute and with other institutes of a like nature, aims at producing educational and recreational films for exhibition in country districts and is also concerned with drawing up cinema programmes and compiling catalogues. Furthermore, it works in close touch with that branch of the film industry that specialises in publishing agricultural films in seeking out new cinematographic forms for demonstrating the all importance of agriculture to the life of our times. At the same time it helps the Communes, Provincial and agricultural associations, and above all agricultural associations created for the purposes of rural welfare, in the choice of films and in installing projection apparatus.
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