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chosen among the best put on the market. In this way, it has been able to establish a film library of several hundreds of films.
A number of other institutions have purchased film projection apparatus, and the Text Book Committee lends them gratuitously any films they may wish to show for the purpose of study or research. Among institutions possessing projections machines and borrowing films from the Text Book Committee may be mentioned the Lawrence College of Ghoragali, the Bishop Cotton School of Simla, the Lawrence Military College of Sanawar and the Central Training College of Lahore.
This latter institution, which is the only one in the Punjaub concerned especially with the instruction of High School teachers, has prepared on its own account several interesting films illustrating various educational activities in the fields of sport and the local tourist industry. During the school terms, the films in question are not only shown to the students, but are used as subjects for debates and conferences.
There is another organization in the Punjaub, the Rural Community Council, the object of which is to look after the education, both occupational and general of the agriculturists of the region. For some time, and in fact until the work had to be suspended for financial reasons, the Council sent an auto-cinema to the country districts to give free performances in the open air, using for the purpose besides the films of the Text Book Committee, other films supplied by various state departments for agriculture, the cooperative movement and hygiene.
Three years ago the Central Training
College made the experiment of sending a cinema car through the outlying villages to show the inhabitants what was being done elsewhere through the educational cinema. The government helped in the purchase of the requisite apparatus and the engaging of an operator. The machinery was placed in large cases capable of being carried on the backs of camels or in other ways. A student of the College was instructed to travel through the district and to give open air projections everywhere on hygiene, cooperation, methods of disease prevention and agricultural methods. A certain number of the films were of a recreational and amusing nature in order more easily to attract the interest of the population.
The experiment was so successful that not only was the Central Training College obliged to rent out its machine and its operator on several occasions, but several other district offices considered the advisability of following the example of the Training College.
These are only, as we have remarked, early reports without any pretence at completeness and do not therefore permit a proper consideration of the work proceeding in the Indian peninsula. It is the Institute s intention, however, to return to the subject as soon as possible, and to extend everywhere its inquiries into the matter with the idea of giving in each number of this review as exact a picture as possible of how the far from easy problem of adapting the film to the education of the people is considered in various parts of the world.
THE INDO-CHINA FILM MARKET
Louis Saurel in Cinematographic Frangaise (N° 725 of 24-XI-1932) publishes a series of interesting commercial notes and statistics on the film market in Indo-China, which have also the merit of novelty. We
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see how even in the furthest off Eastern countries the film has spread in a way that until recently was not to be expected.
There are about 100 cinemas in French Indo-China, the larger part of them showing