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China, Chile, Czecho-Slovakia, Roumania and Holland. We are sure that other countries will soon follow their example.
The I. I. E. C. will give in an early number of the review the official list of the members of the committees which have been communicated, but have not yet been mentioned in the review.
ACTIVITIES OF THE NATIONAL COMMITTEES OF THE I. I.E.C.
The International Institute of Educational Cinematography notes with satisfaction the healthy development of its plan of having a committee of its own to represent it officially in every country. Owing to the activity and the special authority of the persons called to form part of such committees, they constitute a really precious source of collaboration for the Institute.
In our opinion, it is not only useful but even necessary that such committees should enter into contact with each other, communicating their various experiments and successes. With this object in mind, the I.I.E.C. as from today opens the pages of the review to any kind of communication concerning the activities of its national committees.
tThe Chinese Committee of the Institute has been working for some months now, and has stirred up a l®t| lively interest by means of an intense campaign carried out through the
t press and by means of conferences and educational projections. The perJ3£ sons who have signified their approval *Qy of the committee, both in high polit\ % ical and cultural spheres as well as C&L private and official institutions have
tbeen numerous. Requests have been received from many provinces to have conferences given them, illustrating as completely as possible the Institute s programme. In view, however, of the vastness of a country like China, the committee's work must necessarily proceed by steps, and to begin with its activity will be limited to the larger cities, from which it will later spread all over the territory of the Republic.
The first object of the committee was to make a careful study of the present conditions of the local cinema industry with the view of seeing what might be done for a future Chinese production of educational films. The inquiry has given satisfactory results. A Chinese cinematographic industry does exist and i s fairly well organized. From the following table the results supplied by
the Chinese censorship commission on its work in the second half of 1931 may be seen :
Nationality
American Chinese French . German English . Japanese Russian .
Jo of films
Percent
834
60.2
427
32.2
41
3.1
41
3.0
31
2.2
4
0.3
1
0.1
.379
100.0
As we see, the home industry makes a notable contribution to the Chinese market. The Chinese firms organized for film production are 58 in all. The principal house among them, "The Star", contibuted 90 films in the second semester of 1931. The " Great China Lilium Picture Co. " showed 41 films, the " Unique ", the " Tutan ", the " Great Wall " and the " Hwa Chu " more than 20 pictures each.
The great part of the Chinese production consists of silent films, but there is a promising development of sound films. It may be said that the public approves the sound