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aided by success would serve as examples, they would encourage private producers to carry on and they would educate the public in matters of the Cinema. Then various States might create for the very best films an international circuit so that international thought might find its most complete expression on the screens of all countries in artistic, scientific and research films.
This circuit would likewise serve to encourage commercial production to leave its rut and guide the public, opening its eyes as to the different forms of cinematographic expression.
This short proposition is the practical end of my article. Our altruistic desires come up inevitably against the barrier of commercialism. Therefore let us turn to the League of Nations. It alone can help the Cinema to overcome the obstacle by proposing International Film Circuits in which the highest and most varied forms of cinematic expression would be presented. By this means the Cinema might attain constant evolution and the greatest possible moral and artistic growth.
The questions so fully treated by Madame G. Dulac in her report formed the subject of the third point of the agenda at the Rome Conference Delegates of the different countries have added the following information to the abundant matter of her report.
Italy: The National Institute, " LUCE ", has made up a large catalogue comprising school films, documentary films, agricultural films, folklore films, hygiene films, social welfare films and scientific and technical films. "LUCE" films for the teaching of surgical method were declared to be the best of their kind at the last surgical congress at Varsovy. " LUCE " hygiene films are also in demand in foreign countries.
Switzerland: At Bale there is a National Bureau of Educational Films where all information about the latter may be obtained. The hygiene committee of French Switzerland have made and otherwise procured several educational films on the subject of social hygiene. The womens institutes very often employ films for propagandist purposes. For instance, at the national exhibition of feminine work in 1928, the peasant women of the Vaudois made a film showing their work in the country and in the vineyard. The Swiss Association for the Protection of Young Girls have made a propaganda film (which has already paid for itself) and so has the Swiss Association for Feminine Suffrage.
Australia: The principals of two or three schools show films dealing with travel and other subjects to their pupils. The ordinary cinemas never give special shows for children. There have been several films made dealing with, different industries, wool weaving, manufacture of bisquits and jam etc... Naturally the ordinary programme dramas and comedies are imported.