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THE UTILITY OF THE CINEMA IN THE PREVENTION AND PROPHYLACTICS OF DISEASE
BY
Dr. Corrado Tommasi-Crudeli
INSPECTOR-GENERAL DIRECTION OF PUBLIC HEALTH
The conquests of the cinema in the departments of teaching, propaganda and popular education are becoming every day wider and better appreciated. The continuous progress made by medical science and hygiene and the practical applications thereof which are all turned to the advantage of our daily existence are easily and efficiently demonstrated by the motion picture which possesses the immense advantage of fixing the ideas projected firmly in the mind, at the same arousing an active process of association of ideas on the part of the listener.
The cinema is a most valuable means of great practical utility which we must use with the greatest fervour. Every civilization must have its popularizers, those who bring the laws and mysteries of science within the reach of all. The discoveries and inventions made in solitude and in the silence and quiet of laboratories must be divulged popularized, assimilated and rendered accessible to the great mass of the public so that everyone can know and appreciate them.
To divulge and render popular the works of science is a difficult and delicate task, just as it is difficult to bring within the reach of all the technical laboratory discovery or the abstruse theory couched in scientific language.
Our task must be to provide a simple and pleasant form for presenting theoretical and scientific notions in such a way that even children can understand them, while, at the same time, we must not go beyond the limits of strict scientific reality.
These educational hygiene pictures should
be clearly set forth and the sequences carefully arranged. Sub-titles should be simple and short, and all written in a homely style and in such a way as to meet the unexpressed but Teal desire of the spectators to learn without effort under the guidance of a person of intelligence and good sense.
Projections ought to be connected with the illustrious names of the scientific discoverers of the various problem treated, so that the public may know and understand the characteristics of modern civilization, and appreciate how much all comforts and social benefits, all inventions and conquests of science have cost in abnegation, study and tenacious work. These are all so many striking examples of good will and worth which are of help in the moral education of young men and certainly form one of the chief virtues of the cinema.
In the department of defence against disease, it is obviously of great utility to instruct the public, following the criteria here indicated, on the etiology of infectious and parasitic diseases, the harm they are capable of causing to the population and the knowledge acquired through sciendfic research on the possibilities of defence against infectious germs and parasites. A defence of this kind is rendered possible by the adoption of adequate measures of prevention and prophylaxis.
It is the highly important task of hygiene to fix the prophylactic measures to be used. They should be divided into general and particular measures. The first have a great practical value since they must always be taken into account and applied as the