International Review of Educational Cinematography (Jan-Dec 1934)

804 EDUCATIONAL CINEMATOGRAPHY very close collaboration between the scientists, the men responsible for the propaganda or popularization side of the picture, and the cameramen. « I should like to urge here the importance of intensifying the hygiene propaganda in rural districts by multiplying the number of villages or towns furnished with sub-standard projectors of the Pathe-Rural type. These machines are not at all costly, and can give excellent projections of sub-standard film. « Doubtless the creation of a great number of rural districts fitted out with small machines for talking film projections would be a costly enterprise, though the individual cost of each machine is not high, but once the cinema halls had been prepared and fitted out, they could be used for other types of documentary and recreational projection. Moreover, the cost of transport of plant and material would be obviated in this way. An amortization fund would, of course, be created. « No doubt there should be film repositories for the sub-standard films on hygiene subjects, but at the present moment such repositories are practically non-existent. The cost, however, of reducing standard size films to sub-standard is not excessive. « The whole question wants going into, for its solution would be of immense advantage to the future of the eductional film». The Secretary General Dr. Rodolphe Strauss. Hygiene Propaganda The Regional Bureau by Film in the q£ cinema Teaching East of France. . ° at Nancy has, from its initiation, taken a special interest in social hygiene. « A special section of film propaganda of hygiene has been formed in the Bureau. The committee concerned includes Drs. Spillmann, Dean of the Faculty of Medicine, Jacques Parisot, President of the Departmental Bureau of Hygiene, Benech, Director of sanitary services of the city of Nancy, Merklen, Director of the Regional Bureau of Physical Education, Godfrien, chemist. « This hygiene section has planned a three grade form of teaching by lectures and films. « First Grade : elementary courses of hygiene in the elementary schools in conformity with the official curricula. Instruction in washing hands, cleaning the teeth, not to spit on the floor, lessons in breathing and exercises therein. « Second Grade : Talk on notions of hygiene of a rather more advanced nature addressed to the adults of a village or a town. Maternal education, infantile hygiene, tuberculosis, alcoholism. « Reports by doctors on the talk. « Third Grade : Additional propaganda of a fuller and more advanced type addressed to the big public of cities dealing with the chief diseases: campaign against tuberculosis, infant mortality, veneral diseases, etc. These lectures should be given in the beginning by experts of the Hygiene Commission of the Bureau or by competent persons chosen by them. « The work of the Regional Bureau of Nancy was inspired by the foregoing procedure in the question of hygiene. « We began at once to look for films answering our needs, and such were generally to be found in the official repositories of the National Hygiene Bureau. « It would be going too far to say that these films are all perfect or exist in sufficient quantities. At the same time, they render an admirable service. « We have conceived the idea, in agreement with the Departmental Bureau of Hygiene for the Department of Meurthe and Moselle to produce a film of practical propaganda for the purpose of making known to the big public the establishments created in the Eastern region for combating contagious diseases, tuberculosis, cancer, venereal diseases. It is proposed to project this picture in the large halls of the region and to insert the film in programmes of a general spectacular nature.