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THE CINEMA AND TEACHING IN FRANCE*
(From the Frtnch)
There are a number of institutions in France which furnish films free of charge to school-masters, professors and lecturers. These institutions centre round the Musee Pedagogique de Vfitat (the Government Pedagogical Museum), located at 41 Rue Gay Lussac, in the Val de Grace quarter, in Paris. This admirable organization commands respect, both for the importance and variety of the material it has collected and for the singular devotion of its staff; it has played a most active part in promoting both magic lantern and cinematic shows for the purposes of schools and post scholastic teaching in France.
The formation, by way of experiment, of a Cinematheque, (film archive), or, more precisely, a film service aiming at completing that of stationary slides, dates back to 1920. Fifty-four films were loaned during that year, and there has been ever since a steady increase in the number of loans: 3,541 in 1921 ; 11,574 m I922 > 19,525 in 1923; 22,345 in :9245 24,563 in 1925 and 28,915 in 1926-1927.
The films distributed by the Pedagogical Museum for instructive purposes are entrusted to its management by the Ministry of Education, which purchases them year by year from specialized producers. The Ministry devotes the greatest care to its choice of films; nevertheless, they are subjected to a further process of selection.
The following enumeration gives some idea of the different classes of films dealt with :
Agriculture (37 films) Anatomy (20) Archeology, Art and History (31) Nursing (47) Astronomy, Physics and Chemistry (30) Aviation (13) Botany (22) Geology (23) French Geography (131) Hygiene (36) The Navy (14) Fishing and Hunting (29)
(*) See the 3d (September) No of the International Review.
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