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REPORT ON THE CONDITIONS PREVAILING IN
GERMAN FILM PRODUCTION IN REGARD TO
DIDACTIC AND EDUCATIONAL FILMS
APRIL 1, 1933 APRIL 1, 1934.
In new-born Germany there is but one, uniform cultural tendency in the whole of the film industry. The duty of cultural cooperation in the field of popular education is no longer incumbent upon one particular branch of the film industry. A strong feeling of responsibility, inevitably implied in this high mission, has sprung up everywhere. Now at last the indispensable interconnection between the strong cultural will of the nation and the institutions of the film industry which have to serve this new spirit, has become a real fact. It is a characteristic proof of the inborn spontaneousness of this movement that the reorganization of the already existing institutions of the film industry commencing in the spring of 1933, became the prototype of the professional constructive organization of the German cultural community. When the fundamental act establishing the Chamber of Culture came into force on September 22nd, 1933, a fully organized Preliminary Film Chamber was already existing, and by the said act could be made the first member of the Cultural Chamber of the Reich which was about to be formed.
The warm and active interest taken by Dr. Goebbels, Propaganda Minister of the Reich, in the German film industry was thus for the first time crowned by a most important success.
Moreover, he frequently advocated in personal addresses and lectures the cultural improvement of German films. All these
endeavours were finally crowned by the new Film Act dated February 16th, 1934.
The most important measure directly affecting didactic and educational film reels, but also exerting a decisive influence on the educational values of entertainment motion pictures, is the alteration in film censorship contained in the film act of February 16th, 1934, and in particular the introduction of the leadership principle when carrying through the censoring of films, in order to decide whether a film is to be licensed for public performances, and in order to decide whether an individual film is to be given the mark of
« being of general educational value »,
« being of artistic value »,
« being of cultural value »,
<( being valuable under aspects of national policy », or « being of didactic value for educational purposes », and whether in addition it can be awarded the distinction of being « particularly valuable ». Thereby the official Chairman of the Censorship Chamber has been newly entrusted with the decision whether any such mark is to be granted to an individual film and the old institution of the original « Professor Lampe Chambers » thus ceased to exist as on February 28th, 1933.
The result of all efforts towards achieving a qualitative improvement when coordinating the film industry with the national community, is reflected by the marks which