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better than anyone had thought possible, for the interest awakened by the initial newspaper campaign proved enormous, and numerous enthusiastic manifestations of approval arrived from every part of China. The government authorities promised their full support, and the municipalities, besides declaring their interest in the committee's programme, allowed it to be known that as soon as it was possible, and in any case in the not distant future, they proposed to set apart funds for introducing teaching by the cinema into all the schools under their care.
The formal approval of the committee's work by all the universities of China and the principal Chinese and foreign Chambers of Commerce was duly pointed out to the members of the committee.
Encouraged by the first results, the councillors agreed to intensify their propaganda and a debate followed on matters of detail.
A list of speakers was then voted, whose task was to be that of addressing shortly meetings on various aspects of cultural cinematography at Shanghai. The preparation of a full report to the Institute was agreed to.
"THE TRUE FACE OF AFRICA"
On May 16, the I. I. E. C. offered the consular corps in Rome a cinema projection, the chief item in which was the above film, a piece of real life filmed in Africa by Baron Gourgaud. The consular corps, the intellectual world and the foreign press were largely represented. The film had a most successful reception, and was adjudged by the guests invited by the Institute to possess all the qualites of an authentic piece of documentation. Among the many films on Africa, those which realize so exactly the filmed diary of an expedition, not from any desire of self-glorification but in a scientific spirit, are rare. The desire to put on record and illustrate by means of animated visions the reports of the great travellers in whose traces Baron Gourgaud follows was the inspiration of the film.
A series of hunting triumphs giving the idea of massacre must not be looked for in this film. Baron Gourgaud, in the commentary that accompanies the pictures, states clearly that he killed as few animals as possible and scrupulously avoided accidents to members of his party.
The guests invited to see the film were able to note and appreciate the sober comment accompanying it, where happy touches of humour appear together with a profound sense of human sympathy with those people whom progress has not yet included in the list of civilized races. A careful choice of characteristic sites and scenes was shown, making the film one of the most instructive that have been taken in Africa. Picture-work, flawless, and sonorization, perfect : two important factors in the picture's success.
PRESENT DAY PROBLEMS OF THE SUB-STANDARD FILM
The continuous and rapid development of cinematography outside the usual theatrical forms brings the various questions relating to scholastic, cultural and amateur cinematography more and more to the front.
The essential problem here is certainly the size of the film and its unification and standardisation. The importance of the question can be well judged from the numerous discussions on the matter which are to be read in the technical press of every