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technical training, which are then forwarded to the several vocational training centres throughout France; these 16 centres will soon be increased to twenty.
The Syndical Chambers sometimes collaborate in the work of the Permanent Commission of the Film Archive appointed by the Ministry and contribute towards its expenses. Certain firms, moreover, which publish films at their own expense, offer to deposit one or more copies at the Cinematheque, which undertakes to distribute them in the provincial centres.
Thus the Municipal Cinematheque constitutes one of the services of the Seine Prefecture (Direction of Primary Education), while the Cinematheque Nationale depends on the Ministry of Public Education (General Direction of Technical Training); but the two bodies work in perfect harmony.
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The Ministry of Agriculture is the State Department most actively interested in cinematography, and its Film Collection — started 17 years ago — is the best supplied; no doubt because it has considerable credits at its disposal. On the 1st January 1929, it owned 425 different films, representing a total value of some 3 million francs. Its admirably compiled Catalogue consists of no less than 50 pages.
This Ministry lends its Films free of charge to the following organizations:
1. Agricultural Training Establishments; 2. Directors of Agricultural Services, Professors and Officials of the Ministry; 3. Agricultural Agencies, Chambers of Agriculture and Agricultural Associations; 4. Rural Communes; 5. Head Masters and Head Mistresses of Communal Schools; 6. to institutions and individuals concerned zvith agricultural propaganda and education.
As the Preface to the Catalogue points out, the Agricultural Cinema contributes the most valuable and striking data on hygiene, protection against disease, the preservation of national produce, commercial practice, packing, transport; sale, etc., while at the same time it develops a taste for habits of observation and enquiry,
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