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CHINA AND THE I.I.E.C.
In devoting a number of pages in this issue to the subject of Chinese Cinema legislation, we are convinced that we are offering our readers a most interesting study.
Few persons know, we are sure, that the Nankin Government studies with the greatest interest all sides of the Cinema problem both in as much as it is necessary to preserve the masses from influences judged to be pernicious and also in as much as it is desirable that the Cinema be used as a means of popular education.
Our Institute follows the action of the Nankin Government very keenly and the more so because there hans been official collaboration between them.
Besides the direct relations established with the Foreign Office — to which we are indebted for our present information — other relations exist between the Nankin Government and this Institute throught the L. 0. N.
When the Nankin Government applied to the General Secretary of the L. 0. N. for information as to what help it might expect from Geneva with regard to the reorganisation of schools in China, our Institute was asked to give a general outline of the role which the Cinema might play in such a re-organisation.
And this role is of the greatest importance, considering the psychological characteristics of this great Asiatic people, the ideographic character even of its writing, the considerable extension of analphabetism, the necessity for a vast, organic and systematic work of propaganda, of hygiene, of social prevention, of agricultural development, etc . . . quite apart from the definite role of the Cinema in education itself, the lifting up of the intellectual level of the masses.
In January 1931, the International Commission of Intellectual Co-operation decided that an expert in educational Cinematography named by the I. I.E. C. should go to China, accompanied by others named by the I. C. I. C. itself in order to make aquaintance with the various authorities and find out exactly what direction the Chinese Government wish to take.
In agreement with Prof. Gilbert Murray, president of the I. C. I. C, Sig. Alfred Rocco, president of the I. I. E. C. named Baron Alexander Sardi of Rivisondoli, an eminent political personality who has for years been concerned with educational Cinema, as expert. The Director of the I. I. E. C. was prevented by serious illness from accompanying M. Sardi on this mission but he edited with him an organic and practical proposal to be submitted to the Nankin Government which might later be subject to definition and development with the help of competent delegates and, naturally, on an international basis, given the interest which all countries producing educational films will certainly find in so large and extensive a proposal, in the Chinese world. During the completion of Sardi s mission, relations between the Institute and the Nankin Government become more intense. The Chinese Minister of Education has recently informed the Institute of the Constitution of a National Educational Film Centre in November last. This fact shows that the idea is becoming concrete and the great prospect comes nearer reality.
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