International Review of Educational Cinematography (Jan-Dec 1934)

802 EDUCATIONAL CINEMATOGRAPHY linen manufacturing business and enjoyed a great triumph ». « Out of 2000 work girls, 1600 replied correctly to the 19 questions which were put to them after the projection. All manifested a desire to see the film again and one of them wrote : « I love my child, though I have been doing things that might have killed him up to today ». The Educational Cin We should like to ema for the Cam draw attendon t0 ±c paign against Venereal Disease. campaign against venereal diseases which we have been directing in collaboration with the Central Service of Prophylaxis for Venereal Diseases attached to the Ministry of Public Health (Chief of Service is Dr. Cavaillon) and in connection with the Committee of Feminine Education, the Society for Sanitary Prophylaxis and the French National League against Venereal Diseases (Dr. Queyrat). One of our specialized lecturers gives in military and naval and air circles throughout all the regions of France propaganda lectures of an anti-venereal character followed by projections. During the year in course, there were 273 of such lectures before audiences of over 113.000 persons. We also work in close connection with the Prophylactic Commission for Venereal Diseases in the Army. A similar form of collaboration has been established between the General Propaganda Commission and the Direction of Health Service of the Ministry of Marine. Our lectures and films have attracted large numbers of soldiers and sailors called together according to a plan in the cinema halls of the military or on board ship. The sailors of the mercantile marine have also been given the same type of lecture at Lorient and Le Havre in particular. Sometimes the directors of the big commercial steamship lines have asked us to allow their ships' doctor to comment the films for the crews. Dr. Cavaillon, Chief of Central Prophy laxis Service for Venereal Diseases at the Ministry of Public Health has illustrated elsewhere the question of the educational cinema in anti-venereal disease propaganda. The Educational Cin While pointing out ema used by Every h .^ characteris. one in France for r Propaganda Purpo tics and the particu ses# lar way in which the General Propaganda Commission has used the educational cinema which it was also the first to adopt in public health and hygiene work, we are not going to pretend that we are the only people to make use of it. Our country possesses at the present time departmental bureaux of Social Hygiene which undertake a campaign of lectures accompanied by educational films. Regional and departmental cinematographic bureaux are engaged in regulating for the purposes of educational propaganda the beneficent action of the motion picture. We should like to put forward two typical examples: the results of a campaign for hygiene and against the spread of contagious diseases carried out according to our system in the departments of the Upper Rhine, Lower Rhine and the Moselle, and, secondly, the remarkable method established by 'the Nancy Regional Bureau of Cinema Teaching. Note on Hygiene «The Cinema can be a Propaganda by marvenous educational the Educational Cinema in the agent to be utilized Departments of wjth advantage in all the Upper and T Lower Rhine and sections. Its import the Moselle. ance in propaganda places it in the front rank in all programmes having as their object the popularization of notion of defence against disease. Thanks to the motion picture, the dryness of the subject disappears, the interest is aroused, the images cast on the screen define in detail the matter treated by the lectures, implanting ideas in the visual memory and a clear notion of what it is intended to teach.