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Companies' Association and the Railway Companies' Association ; several institutions of a social humanitarian kind, such as the Red Cross Societies, the National Temperance League, etc. Each of these groups own interesting films which are too little known.
The National Tourist Office is at the present time carrying on a comprehensive enquiry, the object of which is to establish a general and definitive catalogue of films of a documentary, artistic and picturesque character, having a distinct bearing, however, on instruction and propaganda. Thanks to its efforts, the French Tourist Office in Geneva has got together a collection of ioo films ; the Barcelona Office owns 29 films ; the London Office 7 films (with titles and captions in English), besides having at its disposal for projection the ribbons belonging to the Railway Companies, the Syndicats d 'initiative, etc.
It would, indeed, be hard to give any adequate idea of what France has done in recent years in the direction of teaching by the film. All that remains to be done is to organize and classify all these admirable efforts, and more especially to establish a liaison between the several groups to which I have referred, and which have, up to the present, acted independently one of the other.
Let us not forget to mention that, side by side with these official organizations, there are in France a certain number of manufacturers who — notwithstanding disappointments (for the educational film is costly to produce and yields poor profits) — compete with one another in their clever efforts to extend their already ample stocks in this line.
Our foremost publishers, Pathe and Gaumont, firms of worldwide reputation, have for some time past organized a first-class section of scolastic, educational, propaganda and documentary
of promoting tourist and similar interests in the organizations to which they apply.
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