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firm contracts with film hiring concerns or by acquiring suitable films when opportunity offers. In so far as they do not use these films exclusively for their own purposes, but by lending them make them available also to schools and institutions for popular education, they materially contribute to the solution of the problem of supplying the demand, and the value of their contribution is proportionate to the abundance of their stock, to the easiness with which their films can be obtained and to the number of users to whom they are made accessible.
III. What are the essential points to the film user in connection with the
SUPPLY OF HIS REQUIREMENTS ? (FUNCTIONS OF PUBLIC FILM COLLECTIONS).
These points are:
i) information as to the existing material; z) possibility of making a selection ;
3) fitness of the film selected;
4) actual possibility of obtaining the film at a given moment ;
5) financial possibility of hiring or acquiring the desired films.
An analysis of these points will show that numerous considerations point to the desirability of the institution of public film collections in every country, and will evidence the many auxiliary functions that can be performed by such a film service with a view to furthering the use of educational films, to the advantage of young people, who are thereby materially assisted in their heavy intellectual work.
1) However large one or other of the existing collections may be, and however accurately their catalogues may have been compiled, such collections nevertheless consist only of a stock that can go but a very little way to satisfy pedagogical and educational requirements. As existing collections are either held by business concerns or owned by institutions for popular education, which, being compelled to turn their films to the best possible account, cannot indulge in much altruism, there exists only an extremely limited number of comprehensive lists of cultural or educational films , such as the catalogue published in 1927 by the Deutscher Bildspielbund (German Central Association for Recreational Pictures of Berlin). That organization owns also a film and photo collection, as do also the Sdchsische Landesbildstelle (National Picture Institution of Saxony), of Dresden, and the Bayrische Filmstelle {Bavarian Film Institution), of Munich. The Wiirttembergische Bildstelle (Wurtenberg Picture Institution), of Stuttgart, also owns a film collection. The Urania Association of Vienna has set up, jointly with the Austrian Association for School Cinematographs, the Austrian Records of Educational Films.
Existing lists, however, do not supply sufficient information as to all the educational films that can be procured at the present moment. It may be said at most that the several lists compiled by the bodies above referred to include the films accessible to their members or their fellow-citizens. Of all the existing lists, the catalogue of the Deutscher Bildspielbund is the one that can claim most general importance. Thus we still lack the necessary information, and only the constant