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there are three cinema cameras, one of which is for slow motion filming, and a studio for all film operations generally.
Not long ago Captain Calvet, Director of the Army Geographical Service, exhibited two unpublished films he had composed at the Polytechnic School, which much impressed our marshals : one of these represented on a large scale map of the North of France the defensive battle of 191 8, the other the offensive battles of the 1 8th. July to the 8th. August. An ingenious adaptation of animated drawings, executed by a master in this line, M. Albert Mourlan, makes it possible to move about on the map, as on a chess-board, small squares representing the 400 divisions that took part in the operations. This fine history lesson met with unprecedented success, and General Debeney, of the General Army Staff, expressed his warm appreciation to Captain Calvet.
The Collection of the Ministry of Marine comprises 120 to 130 films, but of a highly eclectic character, and rather of a documentary kind for the most part. There are indeed a certain number of purely maritime subjects and some of a technical order ; some of these deal with seaplanes and are not among the least successful in lectures delivered in all quarters.
A very strenuous colonial propaganda is carried on in France, not under the auspices of the Ministry of the Colonies, but through the Economic Agencies, and dealing with IndoChina, Algeria, Equatorial Africa, West Africa, Tunis, Morocco, Madagascar, etc. The said Agencies' make a point of lending every assistance to the lecturers in order to make the still unplumbed resources and the admirable beauties of our rich and majestic colonial empire better known.
Let me give a single example. The Indo-China Economic Agency kindly places the list of its 152 films (some 2500 metres) — which might well serve as a model list — at the disposal of technical training and higher instructional establishments, as well as of teachers and lecturers: this list shows the titles of the films, the number of copies available, the meterage, the number of minutes taken by projection, and in the « Remarks » column such notes as the following are entered : very good, good, not very interesting, fine landscape, dull, etc.
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