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doctors, parents and the higher police authorities, unless, indeed, the Hellenic Red Cross were itself willing to organize them — a suggestion that was very favourably viewed by the teachers, owing to the uncontested prestige of the Red Cross Society in Greece and its perfect organization ;
c) that the scenarios of childrens' films should preferably reproduce scenes of child life, amusing stories, factory scenes, historical events, scenes from the Old and New Testaments, documentary films of distant countries, etc. In view of the fact that the cinematograph has become a necessary auxiliary to all practical teaching, the teachers expressed the hope that each of the schools might be endowed with a cinema hall.
d) that all shows for children should be given in well ventilated premises or, preferably, in the open air ;
e) that shows should not last longer than one hour and that the intervals between projections should be as long as possible ;
/) that a methodical propaganda be carried on in schools and scholastic associations with a view to impressing upon parents all the harm the cinema may cause their children.
Following on this enquiry, the Hellenic Red Cross Society undertook an active campaign in favour of the educational cinema and took the practical step of importing into Greece a certain number of moveable projection cabins, which it ceded at cost price to the school associations.
All these efforts are about to be crowned by the creation of a Central National Office of the Educational Cinematograph. This much desired institution will become a reality as soon as Parliament passes the Bill now before it.
On the nth. May last, by order of the Head of the Government, M. Venizelos, the representatives of the several Ministries and associations concerned with the welfare and education of children were invited to come together to consider the best ways and means of promoting the educational cinematograph and to discuss how it would be possible to overcome the difficulties to which we have referred, first nmong which was the difficulty in obtaining the requisite films.
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