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We will not dwell on the details of the work done by the different groups of travelling cinemas during their successive tours. At the present time the group belonging to the Information and Training Section of the Direction of Agriculture is methodically pursuing a very active prophylactic campaign of incontestable social value by the exhibition of films bearing on so-called « secret » and contagious diseases. These films have been given or lent us by the National Hygiene Council. This is a form of propaganda which it would be difficult to carry on by any other means. In collaboration with the bodies organized by the Ministry of Industry for safeguarding the public health, which, without the collaboration of the agricultural department, would have been unable to reach the rural masses, this form of social and patriotic education offers a means of moral uplift of adults and children and is instrumental in forming a new conscience more open to the reception of modern agricultural teaching.
The efficacy of the methods tried by the Direction of Agriculture is beyond dispute. This system, moreover, is being practised at the present time in most branches of training by schools, postscholastic, and specialized teaching organizations.
The National Council of Primary and Secondary Instruction cooperates in this work, by means of films dealing with subjects included in the school curricula, which our travelling cinema groups exhibit in the districts they work.
So far as possible, all the shows have been given in school buildings.
The following expresses the views of an authority on film education on the value of our methods.
« After writing and printing, the cinema is undoubtedly the most revolutionary of all the inventions that have been applied to teaching. It is an instrument that we cannot overlook.
«So many and various are its forms of expression that it offers us quite unique possibilities; it is accessible to all and exercises its sway over all mankind, with the exception of the blind. So
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