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THE FUTURE OF EDUCATIONAL FILMS 247
It is significant, however, that the Paris Motion Picture Conference is under the auspices of the League of Nations. The French National Committee on Intellectual Cooperation is in direct charge of the congress. The Basel conference, however, is entirely on the educational film, and its announcement is a very good indication of the present European sentiment on the subject. A portion of the announcement is reproduced here :
In the course of the last decade great progress has been made in the introduction of the film as a means of instruction. In most countries eminent pedagogues have undertaken, in cooperation with the film industry, to utilize the incontestable advantages of the moving picture for teaching and for education in its broadest sense. — In all these efforts the following facts have become evident :
1. In many cases the film is a means of instruction of specific value, above all in such cases where incidents of life and movement are concerned which cannot be reached directly.
2. The highest aim is to adapt the use of the film in class instruction. The instruction of large numbers of pupils by means of the film and outside the class room may only be considered as a makeshift in transitory stages of economic difficulties.
3. For some particular subject-matter and large syntheses the instruction film on a large scale will always have a great value. Especially this type of film appears to be the most appropriate medium for popular education in a broad sense. The fight against the low class film is most efficiently conducted by means of the good film.
4. The State, in its attempt to combat the abuses in the moving picture industry, must make use, on a large scale, of the instruction film. The State is in duty bound to educate youth to a sound criterion and to cultivate its taste.
5. In spite of the good intentions of and the considerable sacrifice made by the producers of instructive films the films of this class today existent do not always come up to the requirements made