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The Cinema in the least considerable of its forms facilitates progress and spreads it. The Cinema composed of life-matter renders the existence of the individual less isolated and draws it willing or unwilling, within the sphere of contemporary scientific and industrial movements.
Glance through the general catalogue of the International Institute directed by M. de Feo and you will have an admirable synthesis of all that can be done by the educational Cinema. Here let us thank Italy for understanding so well the effort which the Cinema is making.
The Cinema obliges us to leave our own petty circles. By means of it and thanks to it the least village is in communication with the entire universe, the least individual with all men.
I might enlarge further upon the importance of the Cinema in educational, artistic, social and international fields but you may do this for yourselves and realising this I have not crowded my article with statistics and other confirmatory documents.
All that we can say is that the body of the Cinema, of which I have spoken, has in thirty six years shrunk somewhat in size. The Cinema has progressed from being a side show at a fair to the height of a universal expression which dominates our minds and forms the nucleus for the contemporary organisation of thought.
This organisation pertains to everyone and everything. It is as yet unformed in the process of birth. But we know what it should be and it is near at hand for we are persuaded of its use.
Obstacles in the Path of the Cinema and how they may be removed.
Here I come to the last chapter, to the resolution which I wish to make. The best Cinema from both educational and artistic points of view exists in Russia. Why? Because from an artistic point of view the Russian Cinema, which is a State Cinema, treats the greatest human questions. As for the Instructional Cinema, it is ubiquitous.
State control would therefore appear to be beneficial since it acts from an altruistic and social point of view and not from commercial interest.
A film of whatever description costs money. Producing companies expect from the capital invested, not an ordinary percentage of profit but a formidably large one. I do not exaggerate in saying that an investor is not satisfied if a film does not bring in a ioo % profit!
One cannot change these things and I do not wish to condemn commercial Cinema. It has its use and it it should live, favoured and encouraged. From it there issue from time to time remarkable works. And there lies the example.
But could not the various States be persuaded to own cinemas which would only show films of high merit in all branches of the art? These cinemas,