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strong is the impression of reality produced by a scene projected on the screen that adults and children alike come under its spell; some regard it merely as a spectacle, while others draw their own conclusions on its imitative efficacy; but all are subject to its influence.
« No books, no words, no other form of manifesting our thoughts, has the cinema's power of presenting the truth, especially when the film is prepared by a good teacher.
« How shall we acquaint children with the world's natural beauties, its conformation, the different races of mankind, the great works of man, the manners and customs of other races, their rites, etc. ? How shall we give them, in a practical and attractive form, a complete idea of the world of industry ? How present the creations of the human intellect in a realistic manner to the minds of students ? — show them roads, commerce, farms, fieldwork, experimental stations, new technical processes, work in mines, and so forth ?
« Can we ask all this of illustrated books ? We cannot, because illustrations do not sufficiently interest the child, nor give him a precise notion of reality.
« The cinema possesses all the essential elements of the picture, but it is a living picture, which shows the whole world in all its luminous beauty and down to the very depths of the sea — things that no master, however zealous he may be, can know or teach but in an incomplete and colourless form ».
The unquestionable educative and instructive value of the cinema being thus recognized, the Information and Training Section asked the Direction of Agriculture for authority to equip another group of travelling cinemas, so as to extend this method of instruction and enable it to achieve the fullest results possible within its sphere of action.
The success achieved by the Direction of Agriculture in the way of popular education on rural problems by means of the film assures Uruguay a first rank place among the Latin American Countries. For the past two years, travelling cinemas equipped with autonomous electric generators, have been travelling the
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