We use Optical Character Recognition (OCR) during our scanning and processing workflow to make the content of each page searchable. You can view the automatically generated text below as well as copy and paste individual pieces of text to quote in your own work.
Text recognition is never 100% accurate. Many parts of the scanned page may not be reflected in the OCR text output, including: images, page layout, certain fonts or handwriting.
up in several quarters and have headquarters in many big towns. They do not all follow the same programme, but they all collaborate in the work of supplementary or post-scholastic education. Many of them take all possible steps in favour of the « school screens)) and to assist the masters in making the best use of them. These offices, although encouraged by the Ministries of Public Education, Agriculture, and Hygiene, etc., are institutions at once of an official and a private character. They owe their existence some to private and others to municipal enterprise.
The oldest established, and also the most important, is the Lyons Regional Office of the Educational Cinema, round which 12 south-east departments centre. Presided over by Senator Brenier and directed by M. Gustave Cauvin, it possesses over 2000 films (161,983 metres). During the past year, it organized over 6000 educational and recreational shows and furnished 250 programmes per week, which represents 20 million metres of ribbon per annum. Its budget, which amounted to 15,000 francs in 1922, rose in 1926 to 250,000 francs, reaching 350,000 in 1927 and 400,000 in 1928.
The Lorraine Regional Cinematographic Instruction Office, with headquarters at Nancy, was started during the war ; it comprises the following Departments : Meuse, Meurthe and Moselle, Vosges, Haute Marne, Doubs, Moselle, Upper Rhine and Lower Rhine. Its purpose is to assist clients in the choice of apparatus, to train operators, and to give suggestions to teachers on the uses to be made of films in teaching, thus enabling them to benefit by previous experience in the held.
At the present time the Nancy Office counts 220 clients. It has already done much useful service ; it owns a film collection aggregating 150,000 metres ; makes yearly loans of more than 1 million metres ; has organized over 1000 scholastic, post-scholastic and recreational shows in 1928 ; its balance-sheet accounts for over 100,000 francs. These are encouraging figures, and we should add that in the Meuse Department alone over 140 schools possess their moving picture projection apparatus.
The Saint Etienne and Loire Film Archive, which has its
632