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— IIOI —
The school Cinema exists but it is only at the dawn of its organisation.
The I. E. C. I. gathers information and statistics on this subject and we must propagate these in order to convince by figures and graphs those who do not believe.
A town is not built in a day, but each day the work of concentrating materials for construction must go on.
The following problems must be met and overcome:
i. The creation and production of purely instructional films on all subjects: Natural History, Geography, Geology, ethnography, History, foreign languages (thanks to talking films), mathematics and political economy (thanks to animated drawings).
2. The formation of courses for the education of teachers in matters of the Cinema.
3. The Rational study of the possibilities of the Cinema as adapted to instructional needs.
4. The study of financial arrangements and of the organisation by the States of school film libraries.
5. The collection from all countries of exact data for the compilation of a work of general propaganda.
6. The international exchange of films which may add to general knowledge.
All nations are seeking to employ the Cinema in schools to a varying extent. America, Germany and Russia have the most rational organisations in this respect and England is at the moment debating the question officially.
I will quote here extracts from a report by my colleague, M. Jean BenoitLevey who is indefatigably devoted to the cause of educational films in France.
Germany. — Generally speaking all ministerial departments are interested in the educational film and notably the Ministry of Commerce of Prussia. It may be said that in Germany the use of the educational film has become official and almost obligatory. Great facilities are offered to producers specialising in these films in the shape of reductions in the cost of film material and above all by the exemption from all taxation of those cultural films shown in the cinemas.
We would call to your particular attention this fact as it seems to us to offer to the cinema a path of development.
Germany and Italy have understood the need for encouraging cinema managers to show films beneficial to the cultural level of the people and with this object in view the governments concerned have arranged reductions in cinema taxation corresponding to the quantity of officially recognised cultural films shown. Without insisting on this I am sure that you will realise the great possibilities which this arrangement presents for the propagation of films dealing with professional orientation.
United States. — The development of educational Cinema in the U. S. has been extraordinarily rapid, for it has been aided not only by private enterprise but more particularly by the State. It is interesting to note that the