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INTERNATIONAL CONGRESS OF ROME 339
The Congress thinks that entertainment should be offered to country people capable of offsetting the attractions of city life. The rural film should give to the country worker a feeling of greater dignity by showing him that his work is in no way inferior to that of the town worker.
The film should especially insist on the intellectual side of the tasks accomplished by the country worker. This applies equally to both sexes.
2) Collaboration between filmmakers and agricultural technicians : The Congress is of the unanimous opinion that producers of agricultural fdms or of films concerning rural life should secure the collaboration of specialists thoroughly conversant, from a scientific point of view, with the subject in question, and familiar with the conditions of country life.
3) Educational Cinema in the country : In this connection the cinema must try to raise the standard of human dignity. It would be useful that in every country there should be an association of bodies instructed in this problem, with the view of aiding the circulation of educational films capable of raising the moral standard and of leading therefore to the improvement of the individual.
The Congress is further of the opinion that films intended for country people should not describe city life in such way as to give a wrong conception of human dignity whether it be the representation of an exaggerated luxury or by the description of vices, or by episodes showing a lowering of human conscience.
4) Agricultural Films of regional character : The Congress believes that, in order to attain the educational aims they intend to reach, agricultural films must be of an essentially original character. This does not exclude the possibilities of showing how the same production is obtained in different countries with different methods of cultivation.
I]>a SECTION EDUCATION
1st Commission. — Hygiene and Social Safeguards.
The Congress,
1) Asserts the undoubted superiority of hygienic propaganda and instruction by means of the film as compared to other systems of spreading knowledge.
2) Is unanimous in maintaining that propaganda for hygiene and social protection ought to deal with the entire question of the defence of the race, that is, by the propaganda of maternal and infant welfare, the physical training of youth and its preservation from social evils to the propaganda which deals particularly with the various social aspects of hygiene training ; all this should be understood as having for its sole object the defence of the race.
3) declares that the efforts of public bodies and all other organisations and institutions aiming at the defence of human health and the protection of the race should be directed towards a more organised and disciplined use of motion picture projections :
a) concentrating and coordinating efforts in order to avoid a dispersion of energies and duplicating productions ;