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Diverse Industries (68) Eugenics and infant welfare (3) Sports (26) Zoology (108). Besides these, there are 69 Films dealing with the French Colonies, 87 with Europe generally, 32 on Asia, 10 on Africa, 19 on America, and 3 on Australia.
There are two, five, and as many as ten and more copies of some of these films, the number of copies purchased being fixed according to the applications registered within a given period. In all, there are 5000 ribbons of different lengths — a quite inadequate supply when we consider that over 500 applications have sometimes been received in one day. Nor does Monsieur Ripault, Director of the Museum, cease for his part to deplore the insufficiency of the funds placed at his disposal and invoke the aid of Maecenas !
On the other hand, it will be realized that the circulation of the films — the incessant shifting of these from one extremity of the country to another — causes considerable loss of time, and the films are consequently out of service during the greater part of the year. On this account the opening of sub-offices was. considered in 1927 with the object of decentralizing the service.
At the present time, the following Departments 'have their own film archives in their respective principle towns: Aube, Aude, Aveyron, Charente-Inferieure, Bouches-du-Rhone, Calvados, Coted'Or, Finistere, Gard, Gironde, Hautes-Alpes, Haute-Marne, Haut-Rhin, Herault, Indre-et-Loire, Jura, Loire, Loiret, Lot-etGaronne, Lozere, Pyrennees-Orientales, Sarthe, Vaucluse, Vosges, Vienne, Yonne.
In addition to these Departmental film collections, there are a certain number of regional collections: those of Puy-de-D6me, Haute Garonne, le Nord (which serves the Aisne, Ardennes, Nord, Pas-de-Calais and Somme districts) and that of Meurtheet-Moselle.
This decentralization has been most practical in its results; school-masters are now able to get hold of any particular film in proper time for their lessons or lectures, and far more service is got out of the ribbons now that long journeys hither and thither are avoided. In one department at a considerable distance from
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