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INTERNATIONAL CONGRESS OF ROME 345
ularly in France and Italy, in the execution of educational screenings in country centres by means of travelling squads equipped with portable apparatus (projector, loud speaker, microphone for lectures, etc.), systematically visiting all the agricultural centres of a region or of the whole country and screening films every day in the schools and in the evening before the public ;
invite the Savings Banks
to consider carefully this new effective possibility afforded for the education of the country population, and to promote, if necessary, agreements with the national or local committees of educational cinematography, hygiene, social propaganda and the like interested in the undertaking, for carrying out this programme ; in particular, they point out the importance of thrift and providence in the life of the countrydweller, and in the problem of "Back to the land".
6) The delegates of Savings Banks and their Associations at the International Congress of Educational and Instruction al Cinematography, II. Section, 3rd. Commission, recommend to the attention of all Savings Banks and other social institutions the movement which is becoming evident in every country on the initiative of governments themselves, tending to facilitate or render compulsory the screening of educational films at public shows, in order that thrift and providence films may also occupy a place in these screenings in keeping with the social principles they promote.
7) The delegates of Savings Banks and their Associations attending the International Congress of Educational and Instructional Cinematography, II. Section, 3rd. Commission, considering the great usefulness that would be acquired for their educational activity by the production of a great film destined for the big public, namely for screening at public entertainments, but inspired by principles of thrift and providence, in which however, the educational aims are not so evident as to make the propaganda tendency of the plot too conspicuous — a film which, on account of its intrinsinc beauty and artistic value would be implicity assured an international circulation like any other theatrical film — considering moreover the importance of the expense which could not be borne by Savings Banks or Savings Banks Associations taken individually ;
expresses the wish that the largest Savings Banks in the world join forces in this undertaking, through the International Thrift Institute, by making a financial contribution to the execution of the project. The contributions would then be made good by the sale of copies of the film in the various countries.
8) The delegates of the Savings Banks and their Associations at the International Congress of Educational and Instructional Cinematography, II. Section, 3rd. Commission, after studying the propositions tending to the development of thrift by means of educational cinematography, have noted that unfortunately a great number of visual feature films are dealing with subjects inclined to arouse, in young people especially, a taste for wasteful expenditure and luxury ;
and express the wish to see the Congress call upon all film producers and public authorities so that some action be taken in order to improve these general conditions.