International Review of Educational Cinematography (Jul-Dec 1929)

M. Vichnial has turned a film on . Sovietic Fordism ». (Nouveautes du Cm. Soviet. 5/83). In England, Germany and Holland the cinema is made considerable use of lor popularizing cooperative societies. One hundred and fifty of these societies own projection apparatus. The National Cooperative Institute in Italy will also resort to this system. (// Lavoro Cooperative), Rome 9/70). The opinion is expressed in legal circles that there is no reason why a will registered by a talking film should not be valid. It is even considered that forgery might be excluded by this means. (Frankfurter Zeitung, Frankfort 10/239). The exhibition of an American sound film, representing the actual scenes of a railway accident, and showing dead and wounded, roused considerable excitement and protest. (Deutsche Allgemeine Zeitung, Berlin 12/407). 112 New York cinemas have been unable to stand up against the competition of halls where « talkies « are exhibited, and have had to close down. About 80 % of the cinemas of the United States need capital to re-equip their halls for sound projection. (Leningradshaia Gazeta Kino, Kiew 12/437). Prof. Van der Velde, in collaboration with the Medical Cinematographic Institute of the University of Berlin, has produced a film of a purely scientific purpose, entitled « Conjugal Life ». (La Pehcula, Buenos Ayres 13/74). M. Siemaschko, in an article entitled c< Flealth and Hygiene Films » expresses the view that the cinema is the best means of teaching modern hygiene methods to the people and of defending them against vice. He likewise maintains that the film is of great assistance in medical theory and practice. (Kino und Kultur, Moscour 14/44). O'Pais contains a highly interesting article on the educational role of the cinema. The health authorities of San Paulo, fully realizing the value of this new weapon of collective defence have organized the production of films of a kind to instruct the public in the elements of knowledge and hygiene to enable them to defend themselves against the risks of the vellow fever, that afflicts certain regions of Brazil. More particularly in the interior of the country, where the benefits of popular scientific teaching make but slow progress, the cinema is able to play an important educational role. (0' Pais, Rio de Janeiro 14/45). The German Central ' Committee for the campaign against tuberculosis calls attention to the film « Forbidden Kisses » which aims at popularizing hygiene and social prophylaxis. (Dcutsch Central Komitee Zur Be\ampjung der Tuber\ulose , Berlin 14/47). The 'project of cinematographic reform in Germany is analyzed in a highly interesting article, which gives special consideration to the question of the admittance of children to cinemas and the penalties provided for persons infringing the law, including both parents and responsible guardians. (Vol\swohlfahrt, Berlin 15/87). Prof. Theobald Buchner, of Zurich, in an article entitled: « Can the Cinema set a bad example? » affirms that, although there is no direct relation between crime and the cinema, nevertheless the luxury and thoughtless manner of life depicted in so many films have a bad influence on the young and on the lower middle classes. (Sud. d. Zeitung Morgenblatt, Stuttgart). In the course of a lecture at Yale University, during the International Psychological Congress, Prof. Blanchard maintained that not only does the cinema not contribute at all to criminalitv, but that it exercises a beneficial — 7H