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With the present issue the International Review of Educational Cinematography appears in a new form ; but in changing its vesture it does not change in substance or in spirit, nor does it deflect from the general policy for which it was created and that has directed the efforts of the Institute during the first half year of its life.
While gratefully acknowledging the collaboration we receive from all parts of the world, we are anxious that the Review, which is the concrete expression of the aims of the Institute, shoidd, in its general presentation, appear more in consonance with the importance the publication is assuming throughout the world.
We can look back with some legitimate complacency on the past six months. The Institute had been in being barely seven months when the Review was launched abroad in the world to seek its fortune. A very big effort had to be made, with an organization necessarily hastily improvised and with the strictly limited means at our disposal. Five editions in five different languages : the Institute was resolved that it should affirm its world claims and its international position. The new educational aims of the cinema and the problem of its application to all grades and systems of teaching, as also the study of the manifold social, moral, psychological and juridical aspects of the cinema, demanded the publication of an organ that could get about the world easily and be read by the peoples of all tongues. And so, undaunted by the difficulties surrounding us, we tackled the task of bringing out the Review in the five official languages of the Institute ; nor do we despair that in the more or less near future it may be issued also in other important languages.
We are the first to recognize the early failings of a child so hastily sent into the world, though begotten with so much love and enthusiastic faith. To-day we are endeavouring to develop its outer as well as its inner grace : to perfect it both in form and in substance.
Thus a handsomer general and typographic presentation accompanies interior reconstruction : an ampler supply of facts and imformation that reaches us from all parts of the world, a greater care of the translation into the several languages, and a more rigorous selection of copy.
In accordance with the suggestion and request of many good friends and authorities on film questions, we have completely transformed the Notes and News section ; this important part now assumes a quite new form, the bare statement of facts and happenings being shown in relation with the world effort to make of the cinema an instrument of culture and knowledge.