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Considerations on "The International Conference of Cinema and Broadcasting " held by The International Council of Women
Considering the increasingly important place7taken in the life of the present day by those powerful instruments of information, education and amusement, the Cinematograph and Broadcasting, the International Council of Women decided in 1926 to form a Commission of the Cinema to which was added in 1930 the study of Broadcasting and its utilization.
It is interesting to note that the League of Nations itself, by entering in its programme the study of the influence and possibilities of these two marvellous inventions, fulfils a resolution expressed by many of the great international organizations which, like the International Council of Women, have understood the importance of Cinematograph and Broadcasting which appeal to the masses and attract youth. In fact, Cinematograph and Broadcasting are as it were a prolongation of ourselves; they push back the limits of space and of time; they permit us to penetrate into conditions and environments which would otherwise remain foreign to us; they make science and art alive even to the uninitiated. Like every other force in our hands, they can destroy as well as construct. It is for this reason that men and women of good will should interest themselves in an influence which effects beings of all races and of all classes.
Our Commission met at Geneva in 1927, in London in 1929, in Vienna in 1930, but it is only this year, at Rome, that, ripened by experience, study and discussion, it has been able to elaborate so complete a programme of action.
The President of the International Educational Cinematographic Institute, His Excellency M. Rocco, and the distinguished Director, M. Luciano de Feo, in encouraging us to hold a conference at Rome, in the headquarters of the Institute itself — so generously offered to the League of Nations by the Italian Government — have given us all the facilities that this Institute can furnish, and they are indeed great.
The conference took place from the fifth to the ninth of October in an atmosphere particularly propitious to a profound study of the many aspects of the Cinema. The International Council of Women, on whose programme Broadcasting had been inscribed only a year ago, devoted the greater part of its work to the Cinema.