International Review of Educational Cinematography (Jul-Dec 1929)

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Herr J. I. Heifetz, a Professor at Leningrad, publishes a comprehensive study on the question of Copyright in the Soviet Republic. {Droit d'Auteur, Berne) . M. Jean Benoit Levy has finished his latest film « Maternity » dealing with the general principles of social education. (L' Ami du Peitple , Paris) . An interesting article deals with the question of censorship in India. (Lichtbildbiihne, Berlin) . Dr. Fritz Wertheiner, General Secretary of the Institute of Germans resident Abroad, deals with the cinematograph considered as a connecting 1ink between persons of a given nationality settled abroad and their compatriots at home. (Film-Kurier, Berlin). The French Ministrv of the Interior has sent orders to all the Police authorities of the Republic to lemove the posters stuck up by the Legue pour la defense de I' Idee Francaise , entitled « France colonized by the American Film ». {Cine Journal, Paris). The new British « Hygiene Society » has released .a film demonstrating the immense advantages to public health of the observation of l he general laws of hvgiene. (Comoedia , Paris). A leading article contends that films representing crimes often exercise a moral and educative influence, by reason of the normal tendency in mankind for good sentiments to prevail over bad ones. (Tremonia, Dartmund) . A leading article deals at length with the question of the censorship in Germany and police regulations, especially in regard to minors, etc. {Berliner Tageblatt, Berlin). Germany is about to codify all the different iegulations throughout the Reich on the exclusion from cinemas jf children aged under 16 years of age. (The Film Daily, New York). Sound-Film apparatus has been installed in Sing-Sing Prison (United States) for the projection of films aiming at the social re-education of the prisoners. (Hebdo, Paris). An interesting article deals with the question of the social influence of the cinematograph in japan. (Bourse Egyptienne, Cairo) . A sort of Film Ministry has been created in America. This department will ex?mine the experiments made in the Government laboratories in order to give the producers gratis information on all matters calculated to improve film production. (Cine Journal, Paris). Dr. H. Room of Berlin, contributes an interesting article on the question of sound films as an auxiliary to medicine, jurisprudence, and criminology. (Kinotechni\, Berlin). Dr. Karl Leibig, of the Munich Censorship Office, contributes an article on the censorship of films in Germanv as contemplated by German legislation and as actualy exercised. (Allgemeine Rundschau, Munich) . A leading article analyzes the new Russian film « A Fight for Paris » wfr'ch, while most remarkable from the technical standpoint, is nothing more nor less than a communist propaganda film. (The Daily Film Renter, London). Dr. Albert Helhvig, of Potsdam, describes the penalties contemplated by the new German Censorship Law. (Kinomato graph , Berlin ) . RELIGIOUS FILMS The Alfa Film Corporation is contesting the censoring of the film on a Martin Luther » in which certain scenes dealing with the purchase of absolution were ordered to be excised. (The Daily Film Renter, London). Dr. A. Hattensch wilier describes the cinematographic work carried on by the 493