International Review of Educational Cinematography (Jan-Dec 1931)

386 from these replies, so that it might examine the psychological and pedagogic conclusions to be drawn. He added that the Rome Institute would greatly appreciate the Committee's collaboration in this work. This was indeed the Institute's normal method of procedure. It made no claim to enounce a priori principles but only to determine the practical conclusions suggested by facts, and to this end one of the Institute's first aims was to collect the necessary documentation. The Rome Institute co-operated with every variety of organisation; thus it had applied to the International Labour Office to ascertain what part the educational film could play in the employment of workmen's leisure. Information on this subject had been received from Soviet Russia, the United States and Great Britain. In this field, as in all others, the Institute's enquiries were designed to include all groups. M. de Feo pointed out that, in general, these enquiries were hampered by the fact that in some countries it was not quite clear who should be addressed. He thought that the co-operation of the International Committee on Social Instruction and Education through Cinematography and Broadcasting would be particularly valuable to his Institute because it had easier access to certain international and national groups. The Chairman thanked M. de Feo for his statement of the principles and methods of work of the Rome Institute; he congratulated him upon the results obtained and assured Dr. de Feo of the Committee's readiness to co-operate with the Institute as far as ever financial means would allow. M. Beltette asked Dr. de Feo why the enquiry referred to had apparently not reached the hands of secondary school teachers. M. de Feo replied that, if M. Beltette's federation had not been included, it was because the Institute had applied to Governments only. He added that the Rome Institute welcomed collaboration with all international organisations and mentioned that the Cinema Sub-Committee of the International Council of Women was holding its next meeting at the offices of the Institute at Rome. M.me Dreyfus-Barney desired once again to thank Dr. de Feo for allowing the International Council of Women to arrange the next meeting of its Cinema Committee in Rome and explained the circumstances in which this meeting had been organised. She said that the Cinema Committee greatly appreciated the benefit of M. de Feo's wide experience. She also hoped that the International Committee on Social Education through Cinematography and Broadcasting would be represented at the Rome meeting. M. de Feo instanced, as a further example of the international interest aroused by the Institute's enquiries, the fact that the International Federation of University Women had asked the Rome Institute to communicate to them its questionnaire so that they might discuss it at their forthcoming Congress in Boston M. Gallie, reverting to M. de Feo's suggestion, that the results of the enquiry he had spoken of should be submitted to the Committee, asked in what practical way Dr. de Feo thought that the Committee could help. M. de Feo replied that the documents would be forwarded to the Committee and, as soon as the members had had time to study them, a special meeting might be called which he would make a point of attending. The Chairman proposed that they should pass on to the third item on the agenda and invited Canon Reymond to address the meeting. Canon Reymond briefly outlined the history of the draft convention on the free international exchange of cultural films. He explained how the draft had been prepared on the basis of an enquiry by the Rome Institute and how, after a meeting of the Governing Body of the I. E. C. I., it had been accepted by the Economic Committee and Secretariat of the League of Nations and then submitted to Governments for their consideration. M. de Feo said that so far 32 replies had been received supporting the idea of a diplomatic conference and he much hoped