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JUVENILE DELINQUENCY 215 and included criminologists like Dr. Miriam Van Waters, of Massa- chusetts, and Dr. Phyllis Blanchard, of Philadelphia. Our member companies were glad to help and a series of iilms was made by excerpt- ing footage from feature films. We paid the cost. The films were given free distribution to schools throughout the country and were used to discuss behavior problems with elementary and high school groups. It was discovered that the students were willing to discuss frankly the conduct situations which were thrown on the screen even though they might not have been willing to discuss similar situations present in their own lives. Subsequently this series of films was transferred to a larger group Ivuown as the Commission of Human Relations of which Dr. Alice V. Iveliher, now professor of education at New York University, was the directing head. The film series was expanded to 55 subjects, again with our aid and without cost. These pictures are still in distribution and use. Another worthwhile project was developed at the request of the National Council of Teachers of English. This group felt that there would be decided advantage in having student study guides made on about 100 motion pictures based on such classics of literature as David Copperfield, Treasure Island, Les Miserables, and others. The Na- tional Council of Teachers of English, through a specially appointed committee, authored the study guides, and each member comj)any which had produced the classic prepared research information and other data and financed the printing of the guides. These were then distributed to local high schools through the theaters. In 1936 the public libraries wanted materials which would stimu- late the reading of books from which motion pictures had been made and requested research display charts to be placed in public library lobbies. The first such exhibit, developed experimentally, was on Romeo and Juliet. This activity was carried on with the cooperation of the American Library Association, and at its peak more than 2,600 libraries were using these materials. Eight years ago the Children's Film Library Committee requested the cooperation of the industry in selecting subjects for juvenile en- tertainment. These films would be used in special children's matinees on Saturday mornings in theaters throughout the country. Some 53 pictures were selected and the pi'oducing companies had sufficient num- bers of prints made so that they would be promptly and easily avail- able to theaters wherever interested community groups sponsored the jjroject. Nearly 5,000 theaters have participated in these weekly pro- grams. Another cooperative project with the American Library Associ- ation is the motion-picture industry's participation in their American Heritage program. This is a progi'am in which public libraries throughout the Nation show an appropriate patriotic or historical film as the basis for a film forum in which are discussed the basic elements of the American heritage. One of the most valuable programs is the production by all of our member companies, without regard to their general box-office appeal, of films of significant constructive value to America's 3'oung people. I would like to list a few.