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The Central Committee, furthermore, advises on the drawing up of contracts with cinematographic companies, furnishes all useful information needed by firms producing or hiring out films and projecting plant, indicates the most reliable firms and points out the less reliable, and gives all the information necessary when making application for projection licenses. The Committee must abstain from all activities of a political nature, and the production, sale and exhibition of films must be non-commercial and not done for valuable consideration. The Central Committee has induced the Reich Ministry of Food and Agriculture and the Prussian Ministry of Agriculture to send representatives to its meetings so as to further the production and use of agricultural films.
The Central Committee is composed of the President, his deputy, and of 12 members. The President of the German Association for promoting Agricultural Prosperity and for the Preservation of Local Customs is ex ufficio President of the Central Committee. The members, with the exception of those representing the Reich and Prussian Ministries of Agriculture, are chosen from among the members of the following organizations : the « Plant cultivation Society » the "Organization for the Rearing of Domestic Animals », the « Federation of German Farmers' Associations »,the « German Agricultural Council » « the German Agricultural Society », the « Permanent Agricultural Congress » and the « First Prussian Chamber of Commerce ».
The means requisite for the functioning of the Central Committee are contributed in part from their own revenue and in part by the Reich and Prussian Governments.
It is obvious from the above information that private initiative and the initiative of the various Associations is mainly responsible for the organization of agricultural cinematography in Germany. The Central Institute of Education and Teaching and the Central Committee of the German Association for Promoting Agriculture, etc., are the two essential factors in the organization of German agricultural films. It would, however, be a great mistake to assume that agricultural cinematography has attained to a lesser degree of progress in Germany than in other countries because government initiative in the matter is limited. On the contrary, a publication of the Prussian Ministry of Agriculture, entitled « The Importance of the Film to Agriculture » written by Major D. R. Kleinhaus, Director of the Central Committee of the German Association for Promoting Agricultural Prosperity, shows clearly that, ever since pre-war days, the German rural population has realized the exceptional usefulness of the agrarian film. This, indeed, is no more than we should expect of a people whose agriculture is founded on science and the industrialization of methods. The Brandenburg plains, once so arid and desolate, are at the present time one of the most flourishing agricultural regions
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