International Review of Educational Cinematography (Jan-Dec 1931)

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-448 the opinions we have reproduced are those that appear most in keeping with the Institute's object in the pursuit of this enquiry. They correspond fairly closely to frequently expressed theories and contain valuable data for further study. It would, however, be a difficult matter to draw from these answers the conclusion that the cinema — apart from its didactic value — has any universal value as a means of educating and training the mind towards what is good. The opinions are contradictory and indecisive. Nevertheless, they compel all of us who are concerned to safeguard the moral and physical welfare of the young to reflect seriously upon the need of drastically revising the present-day standards of cinematographic production in the direction of higher and nobler ideals. Children and the entertainment cinema. Questions 3, 4 and 6 of the questionnaire directed to teachers have an obvious connection with one another and it has therefore been thought best to consider what conclusions may be drawn from the replies as a whole, instead of dealing with each question separately. The questions were: Value of the cinema as a means of moral and intellectual uplift, and of imparting a knowledge and understanding of life. Should the cinema be regarded as a source of immorality, as a distortion of life and incitement to crime? (distinguish according to ages and sex of the children influenced). What actual evidence is there for this point of view or on what grounds is the conviction based? What impressions do children and adolescents receive from cinema shows? (distinguish between ages and sex). These three questions obviously aim at eliciting information that is of social rather than of didactic importance. They are closely connected with the study which the Institute has for some time been engaged upon (in concert with the League of Nations International Child Welfare Committee) and the preliminary results of which have been published by the I. E. C. I. under the heading of " The Social Aspects of the Cinema ", Monograph No. 5. In view of this enquiry, the Institute has seen fit to leave the theoretical aspects of the question to its collaborators and to contributors to its Review, its own work consisting in the collection of observations from those concerned, those, namely, who make up the vast body of active and passive screen spectators, on the various points in the enquiry. This was the purpose of: (1) the enquiry among school children, where the opportunity of ascertaining the impressions made upon children and adolescents by the entertainment film supplements the purely pedagogic aims of the enquiry; (2) the questions to teachers, which also envisaged