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for the big international disarmament conference and it will be impossible to hold any other international meetings that year which are not absolutely indispensable.
In order not to mark time, the Institute has decided to undertake and expedite the compilation of international catalogues. This is another practical activity, since the existence of special catalogues, well arranged and divided into subjects, will undoubtedly make it easy for users to acquaint themselves with all existing films and, at the same time, it will be of appreciable value to producers.
As a result of decisions taken, the Institute has done two things:
1. drawn up a complete list of all companies, associations or institutes which make educational films;
2. established separate lists of films according to whether their educational character has been recognised:
a) by organs specially instructed to judge them;
b) by Government authorities generally;
c) by public bodies, institutions or associations which have included these films in their catalogues.
At the same time the Institute has done all it can to promote the establishment, wherever possible, of central organs officially authorised by Governments to estimate the educational value of films produced in their respective countries.
We have pleasure in announcing that the international catalogues will start going to press on January ist, 1932. For obvious reasons the Institute can only take account of films recognised by Government organs. Everybody knows that during the past twenty years or so, many so-called instructional and propaganda films have been made without much regard to their destination. Often these have been conceived on quite wrong lines or their explanatory sub-titles have contained gross errors. An official institution like the I. E. C. I. cannot be expected to include productions of this kind in a collection of educational films. Accordingly, the Institute is confining its attention to films mentioned under b).
The I. E. C. I. has received a large number of catalogues of films in this group and some countries in which this form of supervision is taken very seriously — more especially Germany — have supplied the necessary data concerning thousands of films.