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Twenty five years ago, Professor Hans Gross in his « Handsbuch fur Untersuchungsrichter als System der Kriminalistik » said : « Demonstration methods will continue to play an important role in public halls if projection apparatus are used or even large magic lanterns. As a matter of fact those who have assisted at sessions of the Court of Assises will have realized the inadequacy of this method for the reproduction of important projects, above all if the reproductions were not sufficiently enlarged.
Let us suppose a case in which one of these reproductions was to be shown and. commented on before the judge, the jury, the prosecutors in chief, the iawver for the defence, witnesses, and finally the criminal himself. This means an assembly of about two dozen persons, only two of which would be able to simultaneously see the picture, and the expert or president would consequently be obliged to repeat his explanation ten times over. The loss of time and the fatigle incured by such a method are obvious.
Now let us suppose that the tribunal hall has a perfectly bare white wall on which the pictures in enlargement can be projected. The benefits of such a method would be undeniable, for all could simultaneously see the picture and hear the explanation. Once this method has been adopted it will be difficult to concie of a public trial without luminous projections.
Not only slides, but print, etchings, hand writing may be projected in this manner, anything in fact on paper or some other transparent material that can be put into the projection apparatus.
There should be no great difficulty in suitably darkening the hall. Professor R. A. Reiss has contended Hans Gross' suggestions.
He formulates his objections as follows : « Professor Gross' . idea is excellent, but its execution will encounter many obstacles. The first — a difficulty which time and habit may help to overcome — is the prejudice of the magistrates against films and slides, the use of which because they have seen them in cinema halls and places of amusement, they are apt to consider undignified the law courts . The other, much more serious obstacle is the following. During the projections the hall must be completely darkened which makes it difficult to control the action of the culprits ».
If, however, formerly the question of the slide in the law courts may still have been open to criticism, or set aside as irrelevant, if it was objected that the hall could not be properly darkened, to day not only slides but also the cinema projection is bound to figure prominently in the proceedings of a case in court.
Indeed it would be impossible to define as fantastic a method which is capable of shedding so much light on the minds of those who are required to pronounce a verdict on which the life of a man may depend. As it is no