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The Exchange of Educational Films
and the International Catalogues
From the very first the International Educational Cinematographic Institute has realised that, if their purpose is to be attained, organs of international cooperation must back up scientific and technical study and research by work of an essentially practical character.
The Institute is at present engaged in examining several proposals of this practical nature, emanating from producers or from its Review correspondents or suggested by the daily activities of the Institute itself. These proposals will be worked out without delay and embodied in formal resolutions. In the meantime we desire the readers of our Review and, generally, everyone who is interested in the work and future of the I. E. C. I., to be informed on two fundamentally important questions:
i. the situation as regards the International Convention for the abolition of customs barriers against films recognised as educational;
2, the stage reached in the compilation of international catalogues of educational films.
There is no doubt that, when educational films can be freely exchanged between one country and another and when there are regular international catalogues giving all useful information on the whole output of educational films, the Rome Institute will have discharged a large part of its mission.
Granted that scientific research and theoretical and practical enquiries as to everything that is being, can be and should be done in the various branches of educational cinematography tend to secure the steady progress of the movement, these two achievements of the Institute must be regarded as fundamental.
International Convention for the revision (abolition or reduction) of customs duties on films recognised as educational.
Only a few months after its foundation the Institute, as our readers know, submitted to its Governing Body a full and amply documented report on the fiscal system and more particularly on the customs regime to which the cinema is subject in each country.