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nisation can meet with the resistance of organised women in the application of instructions or rules which tend to improve and perfect an industry, it is certain that the women of a great country, can, by force of influence, propaganda and positive action, help to overcome these difficulties for the general good.
But women can make the influence of their level heads and the force of their thought felt in other fields^of the Cinema, notably in that of the strictly educational Cinema and that conducive to the friendship of peoples, quite apart from internal political contingencies of State or external diplomatic relations.
In every woman there is a mothers heart. It is then impossible to refuse women their natural function as educators, at least in as much as social life is concerned. Schools, charitable institutions and to a certain extent workshops and factories offer fields of action for women s power of education. While mens minds are busy with the constant study and search for technical innovations which may revolutionise or develop labour in all its various forms, and while men destroy and construct to realise an idea, it is the womans work to render this continually changing social life as agreeable as possible to all concerned. Left entirely to mens judgement, life would be a hard and bitter struggle, unending, without a moment of peace or rest, lacking the help and comfort so necessary to those who suffer and fight. It is therefore the function of women to smooth and soften this perpetual fight, hard and bitter, to which humanity is pledged. To recognize this quality in the women is to recognize her right to a profoundly human double function, to educate and to assist.
And what unbounded influence women may have in the domains of international friendship and co-operation, to transform todays dream of peace and human fraternity into the reality of tomorrow!
In these matters, as in many others mentioned and unmentioned, the Cinema is of undoubted use. With light itself, and now today with speech and sound, the Cinema possesses marvellous elements of strength, suggestion and exaltation.
The Rome Conference of the Cinema and Broadcasting Commission set up by the International Council of Women was under the spiritual leadership of Mme Laura Dreyfus-Barney, who truly personifies the highest conception of spiritual life, combined with the highly developed common sense of practical existence. She revealed to us the infinite possibilities for feminine action which the Cinema presents. It may be affirmed that this Conference was from beginning to end a school of thought and action.
The I. I. E. C. is happy to open the pages of its Review for the publication of the principle documents in connection with this Conference, documents of discussion and final resolutions. All this material is still full of life, of the breath of those who have added to it and discussed it.
This is the wish of the International Institute of Educational Cinema