International Review of Educational Cinematography (Jan-Dec 1930)

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-65 AGRICULTURE. THE FILM IN THE SERVICE OF BELGIAN AGRICULTURE In our July issue we published an article regarding the organization of agricultural cinemas in Belgium. Following on the enquiry which the Institute has since carried out in that Country, we are now in a position to give some particulars regarding the work done by the Belgian Ministry of Agriculture in this domain and the aims of an important association, Les Amis du Cinema Educatif et Instructif, set up by private initiative in Brussels, which is doing some very bold and effective work. We are further able to publish the views of two of the most important farming organizations in Belgium on the growing importance of the agricultural film. Lastly, we are happy to be able to inform all those who are interested in the cinema in its bearing on agriculture that a special organization, the Unienpor, the sole purpose of which is to train the rural populations by means of the film, has been set up in connection with the Commission Internationale pour VEmbellissement de la vie rurale (International Commision for ameliorating country life) one of the organs of the great Belgian National Association of that name. The Belgian Ministry of Agriculture. — This department sent round a circular on the nth May 1938 addressed to the head masters and head mistresses of government and private agricultural training establishments, agronomists, market gardeners, and in general to all persons interested in agricultural matters, with which it called attention to the increasing use of stationary and moving picture shows for teaching purposes. It stressed the fact that the aversion in some quarters to the cinematograph on the grounds that it leaves but a passing impression is gradually dying out, owing to the fact that special apparatus for teaching by the film is now available, thanks to technical improvements. The Belgian Ministry of Agriculture has made and is still making special efforts to ingl. promote the use of films and slides for the purposes of agricultural training. With this object it decided to contribute 50 % towards the cost of the purchase of suitable apparatus and planned the constitution of an agricultural film archive and of a special department for the supply of the film material needed for propaganda. This splendid work was preceded by the constitution of a private Company, which, with the full consent of the Department in question, has taken over the carrying out of this project. This organization, Les Amis du Cinema Educatif et Instructif, with headquarters in Brussels, is making every effort to gather together films of all kinds to form a really representative national collection for the use of educational institutions, post-scholastic institutes and popular educational organizations. The Association, acconrding to its statutary rules, will also supply free to any teaching or educational body : a) teaching and educational slides and films; b) information regarding films of this kind, and the monographs necessary to lecturers for the elucidation of the films; c) projection apparatus, operators, and lecturers. It will further act as intermediary between the manufacturing firms and the teaching organizations purchasing cinema apparatus and material and will promote educational and propagandist cinema shows, and act generally in the interest of this form of education. The Company already owns a collection of about 300,000 metres of documentary films. On the 12th May 1928 it was reconstituted as the National Educational Film Institute in order that it might work in collaboration with the I. E. C. I., then about to be formed.