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Federal Ministry of Education subsidises educational productions to the extent of 48 % of the original cost.
Apart from this, 17 % of the schools cancel out all expenses relative to projection installations and film hire from receipts in respect of shows given out of school and attended by parents of the children and the general public. And finally, teaching establishments benefit from a variety 01 private subsidies.
It appears from answers to a circular sent to 517 school teachers and inspectors that the Cinema forms an [integral part in the teaching methods of 44 % of the schools. It may be affirmed that Americans consider the Cinema not only as a great industry but also as a means of mass education and school teaching.
A) Great Britain. — It is necessary to found an Imperial Film Institute to stimulate throughout the British Empire the use of the Cinema in arts, sciences and teaching. This decision as been taken by the Conference of Educational Cinematography, held recently in England.
" This Institute would be of a semi-independent character, but nevertheless under the control of the president of the Board of Education and it is thought that apart from the role it would play in the Instructional Cinema it might have a salutary influence on the moral level of recreational films ».
B) France has just held a conference which had before it the following agenda:
The urgent need of films for teaching, produced by leading professors. The methodical organisation of film libraries and film hire. The decentralisation of supply.
The general adoption internationally of a certain width of film for use in schools either standard or sub-standard.
The International exchange of educational and instructional films. Propaganda in favour of the sincere documentary film; Geography natural history habits industry.
C) The Scandanavian countries are also making a great effort towards or; anisation according to Mme. Gargner's report. There were in Sweden ten
years ago five hundred educational films, including documentary films; today there are two thousand five hundred.
D) In Spain also there is a movement headed by Dr. Caballeros to commence the building up of cinematographic production on the basis of documentary and instructional films. Holland too has given us the marvellous films by Mr. Joris Ivens.
E) In Czecho-Slovakia the Minister of Public Instruction has created a National Institute of Films and Luminous Projections at Prague. This Institute is charged to deal with all matters concerning educational Cinema and to control the cinematographic installations maintained by the Ministry of Public Instruction.
F) In Belgium the Belgian University of Cinematography gives each year in each of its centres one hundred and twenty shows each composed of seven professional instructional films.
G) As for Italy, the National Institute « Luce », possesses 370.000 educational films.
Jean Benoit Levy.