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are now engaged in shooting a number of films and have recently completed certain other joint films.
Ad Category z :
« Take care ! Look out ! », length 68 1 metres, Bergische FilmIndustrie, Elberfeld.
« Rules for pedestrian traffic », length 223 metres, Excentric-Film Berlin, Berlin Traffic Department.
« Educational film on traffic police », length 670 metres, Police Headquarters, Munich.
«Human lives in danger », Eiko-Film Berlin, Berlin Life-saving Office.
It should be added that a few years back the « Universum-Film A. G. », in cooperation with the Berlin police, prepared a traffic film, part of which was of a comic nature ; this was a big film occupying the whole evening.
Ad Category 3 :
We need only mention. « The present age », a film in colours (Sirius-Farbenfilm G. m. b. H. Steglitz and Reichsausschuss fur hygienische Volksbelehrung). This film deals especially with accidents in the home. Reference may also be made to « Small things lead to big », a film 120 metres long made by the Berlin Federation of Electric Works and drawing special attention to short circuits as a cause of fire. There is also an Ufa film with the name of « Fire ». Finally the Minimax Company (manufacturers of fire-extinguishing apparatus) supplied the Reichs-Unfallverhiitungs-Woche with a series of short propaganda films.
Ad Category 4.
« First-aid » length 600 metres, Erich Stocker, Land und Industrie-Film A. G., Berlin, Federation of German professional associations.
« First-aid », length 1000 metres, Gervid-Film, Berlin-Steglitz, German Red Cross.
« First-aid stations », length 2619 metres, Gervid-Film, Berlin-Steglitz, German Red Cross.
« Help in case of accidents », length 450 metres, Bergische Film-Industrie, German State Railways.
« Beware of the red lamp ! », length about 500 metres, Bundesfilm A. G. Berlin.
Lastly, the film « Human lives in danger » (see above), length 1200 metres, falls largely within Category 4.
If we now consider for whom these films are intended, it will be seen that those mentioned under i have little or no interest for the general public. They are mainly exhibited before factory staffs, technical associations, members of trade unions and, sometimes, Sick Funds. For the most part, they provide illustrative material for the use of the technical staff of the professional associations when giving lectures to workmen in the course of their inspections., It would be well to use these