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The Institute s Enquiries
THE CINEMA AND THE SCHOOL
In June 1930 the I. E. C. I. supplemented the enquiry it was making among schools by a second questionnaire addressed exclusively to teachers.
The purpose was to facilitate a study of the cinema based no longer upon the impressions of children and adolescents, but upon the opinion of the teacher. Entrusted as he is with the care of the child's mind and the training of its character, it was desired to ascertain his views upon the screen regarded as a means of completing and aiding his own psychological observation.
The questionnaire was prefaced as follows {International Review of Educational Cinematography, June 1930):
" The International Educational Cinematographic Institute, of the League of Nations, at the beginning of this year started to circulate a questionnaire concerning the cinematograph, addressed to schoolchildren, in which they were invited to answer a number of questions drawn up by the Institute with a view to ascertaining the type of film best suited to the mentality of children and adolescents, their film preferences also in the domain of teaching and lastly, the impressions they had received from the films they had watched and the influence of these on their thought and lives.
" But this enquiry, which has already involved the distribution of over two hundred thousand questionnaires, and which is growing and spreading as a result of the success it has met with, is not sufficient in itself, and it is fitting that it should be completed by a further enquiry addressed personally to teachers, to those responsible for the education of the young and for forming their minds and habits.
" The youth and inexperience of the pupils inevitably render their evidence incomplete and one-sided in so far as their grasp of life in general and in detail is concerned. This is the raison d'etre of the present questionnaire, which aims at completing the evidence.
" The Rome Institute, by its statutory rules and the distinct policy which the League of Nations laid down for it at the time of its foundation — a policy since confirmed by its Governing Body — as well as by its international function, which places it outside and above all business and commercial interests, aims at pursuing on the widest scale possible the study of all the educational, cultural, scientific and moral problems directly or indirectly pertaining to the cinema.
" Guided by these studies and enquiries, the purpose and the task of the Institute are to convert the screen into a means of social uplift, an auxiliary to all forms of activity of social educational value, and at the same time to ensure to the cinema its full and essential value as a means of healthy enjoyment, free from all the more or less deleterious influences it may produce.
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