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VOSGES. — Uses the Nancy Regional Office.
YONNE. — A departmental film collection has been established to encourage film-teaching. Programmes are circulated by a system of rotation, whereby each user is able to give one performance every fortnight. It has a Pathe-Baby section. The number of users has trebled in three years. The performances extend to 70 communes and organisations, the fortnightly shows continuing from the beginning of November until the end of March. Several teachers have a universal film appaiatus for grownup shows and a Pathe-Baby for class-work.
ALGIERS. — All the elementary teachers in the Department of Algiers favour propaganda by film.
At Algiers itself the use of the cinema in the school is spreading fairly rapidly, 64 schools within the area of Algiers North and Suburbs have 22 apparatuses.
In the Second Area few schools employ the cinema regularly.
The elementary schools inspector of the Third Area states that 75 % of teachers have a cinema machine, nearly all Pathe Baby.
Hygiene films for all schools are supplied by the Algerian Educational Film Office.
At Blidah there are 24 machines used for lessons and lectures.
In 1929 an Algerian Educational Film Office was created with the object of organising educational, recreational and instructional shows consisting of selected films, commented or not. This institution works in close touch with the local or regional offices and between April 13th and 27th, 1930 organised at Algiers an Educational Film Congress on the occasion of the Algerian Centenary celebrations.
CONSTANTINE. — In this Department health films are projected from 27 machines with explanations and comments by teachers. The Inspectors of Secondary Education writes: " The effect upon native children is profound; they follow the projections with the closest interest ".
MOROCCO. — An important effort is being made by the Director-General of Education, Fine Arts and Centiquities to promote educational cinematography and organise a regional office.
Progress of Educational Cinematography in France.
Educational films have now established themselves in favour throughout France and the French possessions in North Africa and we have seen the organisation that has gradually grown up.
School cinemas are grouped under Departmental Offices and in some parts we find Regional Offices with a constantly expanding radius of activity Among these are the following:
The Regional Educational and Instructional Film Office of the Nord;
The Regional Educational Film Office, Nancy; The Regional Film Collection of the Massif Central, Clermont-Ferrand;
The Regional Educational and Instructional Film office, Nimes; Educational and Instructional Film Office for the St. Etienne district; Regional Educational Film Office, Lyons; Algerian Educational Film Office;