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Cinema and Justice
Proposed new Judiciary Methods
by Sebastian S. Eustatzin
Doctor in Criminal Science
Slide Projection.
A crime has been committed. After the identification of the criminal by anthropometric methods, his name and his past are known and a photograph has been obtained.
But while this is necessary it is not sufficient. It often happens that he leaves the district where the crime has been committed taking advantage of the hospitality of an accomplice or conniver. In such cases resort musr he made to the help of the public, which may be defined as the great auxiliary service of police research. Thanks to its collaboration a rapid arrest is often possible.
But how can the public's aid to be most efficiently exploited? Obviously the public should be acquainted with the habits of the criminal and his photograph should be published. The use of scientific methods becomes evident in this connection. Slides of the photograph should be made by the police and immediately sent to the local cinemas for projection during each entre-act. Such projections should be accompanied by a short questionnaire drawn up approximately in the following terms : « Do you know this individual?... Have you ever met or seen him, talked to him etc.? Kindly inform the police of anything you may happen to know about him ».
The press will also assist the search by analogous methods, by printing ihe criminal's photograph on the first page of the newspapers.
Tiie criminal unmasked and recognisable to all will be like a hunted prey whose capture cannot be far off.
This is a method which cannot fail to give good results.
Judiciary cinematography.
In the present day , furnished as we are by science with increasing!) perfect methods for taking, projecting and reproducing pictures of which we may have need, the judiciary cinema is an indispensable auxiliary for the study of criminal methods.
It is undeniable that judiciary photography is a most important aid, for it faithfully reproduces ensemble and details of what is required for our investigations, it facilitates expert examination of suspicious documents,
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