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the Institute for Educational Cinematography from its creation. The cinema is an industry and a trade, which requires the support of large sums of capital. Every industry and trade aims logically at a profit. Even a cinematographic organization specialising in loftier ideals in the production of good films must make a profit, though it be a small one, if it is to live and prosper. It will therefore not be possible to obtain good films until a distribution, not only
large enough to cover the expenses of production but large enough to provide a certain margin of profit, can be assured.
A sane understanding of the possibilities and necessities of the cinema industry tends to lead the Cinema Users Consortium to positive action, without ceasing, on that account, from continuing through its " Review of the Cinema " and active propaganda an action calculated to elevate the moral and social level of public spectacles.
INQUIRIES
Dr. Roberto Assagioli, director of the Institute of Psychical Culture and Therapy in Rome, intends to communicate to the world of students and amateurs of psychological problems the results of two inquiries, one referring to children, the other to young folk.
The inquiries which he intends to make derive from a series of meetings which took place in January last at the Rome Lyceum, where the debates turned on the latest currents of thought and the attitude of young people in the struggle of life which continues without truce between the old and the new generations.
It was these debates which gave rise to the idea of getting the young people themselves to set forth their attitudes and their way of thinking about life.
The questionnaires propounded by Dr. Assagioli, which it is his intention to launch in their several languages in the chief countries of the world, contain a series of indica
tions of a strictly psychological character rendered necessary by the origins of the inquiry.
With regard to our own work, it is interesting to note that the cinema is considered as one of the elements preeminently worthy of examination and debate.
The questionnaire for the children contains among other the following question. What shows do you prefer ? Which do you like best, the theatre or the cinema ?
Which films have made the greatest impression on you, and which have amused you most ?
Have any done you harm?
The type of inquiry is perhaps not new, but, without doubt, will be more complete than any so far attempted.
The I. I. E. C. wishes Dr. Assagioli the fullest success, and will be glad at the opportune moment to communicate the results of the inquiry, at any rate for that part which refers to the utilisation of the cinema.