International Review of Educational Cinematography (Jan-Dec 1932)

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— 834 — have not come within the well defined limits of a definite programme. We have not as yet traced this gradual and methodical programme of production which will increase the efficacy of our educational movement. This should be the first and principal concern of our producers. We want films adapted to the centres where they are shown, drawn from subjects the importance of which should follow the graduation of a regular well-conceived plan. Then we shall see a natural and harmonic increase in the results of our campaign of propaganda. It is natural that in order to obtain these results a collaboration between producer and educationalist is indispensable with the object of handling films of this type. Such collaboration would be able to judge in precedence to whom the films should be presented, and would have some knowledge of the capacity for attention of the various publics and the degree of their understanding of the problems to be treated. With a due acquaintance of the needs and limits of public understanding, such collaboration will be in a position to guide and inspire the scenario writer and producer of the film, thus duplicating the chances of eventual success. Our cinema library has a large stock of films dealing with the various aspects of teaching social hygiene, with a total that reaches some 500 films of the most varied kinds, all dealing in one way or another with sanitary or social education. The following are the principal subjects: Fundamental principles of hygiene : cleanliness, air, water, dental hygiene, fight against attic dwellings, insects, good milk, prevention of social scourges, infantile mortality, tuberculosis, venereal diseases, cancer. Tuberculosis. — 119 films deal with this subject. In order to spread knowledge on preventive cures and methods of repression of the disease, films have been produced on sanatoria, prevention methods, dispensaries, etc. We will mention, among others, the following : " The sanitary village of Passy Praz-Coutant ", " The Bligny Sanatorium ', " The Leon Bourgeois Dispensary ", " The Marine Sanatorium of Roscoff ", " The Villemin di Nancy Hospital-Sanatorium ", " A Colony of the Grancher Foundation ", " A Popular Sanatorium in Italy ". TuBERCOLOSlS, ITS CAUSES AND PREVENTION form the material for the following films : " Tuberculosis, its causes and the lessons it teaches ; " External Tuberculosis " ; ' Tuberculosis among the Poor ", to which