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ASIAN BROADCASTING UNION PROGRAMME AND ENGINEERING COMMITTEE MEETINGS, SYDNEY 1969 G.P.O. BOX 487, SYDNEY 2001 TELEPHONE: 31-0211 CABLES: "ABCOM" SYDNEY ABU SECRETARIAT AUSTRALIAN BROADCASTING COMMISSION, BROADCAST HOUSE, 145 ELIZABETH STREET, SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA EXCHANGE OF SHORT FILMS ON FARMING P/19 In this exchange, which has been in operation for about 3 years the ABU members taking part send to each other, once in each 3 months, short films about farming or farming life in their own countries. It was originally intended that members should be able to make, from the con¬ tributions they receive, magazine programmes that would give their audiences an interesting account of farming activities in various parts of the ABU region. There have been problems about this exchange from the beginning and we do not know of any case where a member has in fact been able to make a series of programmes of the magazine type from the films it has received, roblems have included the fact that some of the participating members d * d contri bute films or did not contribute them at the right time* the fiim supplied m some cases was of poor technical quality and some members said they could not use films received because the subjects were ° , no i nt f rest to their audiences. The Secretariat has given much time and effort to try to overcome these problems but the results have not been very encouraging. At the Programme Committee meeting in 1968 it was suggested that one of the participating members might write to the others to try to obtain information which could be used in improving the exchange. The NZBC agreed to undertake this task and it later sent a questionnaire to the UARTO) 5 memberS whlch were stlil taking part (ABC, AIR, NHK, RTH, and Attached is a.summary, supplied by the NZBC, of the replies received from the participants. This summary is being drawn to the attention of the Programme Committee because it appears that the exchange is not at present of much value to the participants and it should therefore be either altered or abandoned. The main points in the replies to the questionnaire appear to be: (a) In each 1 round* of the exchange, each participant sends to each of the others taking part a print of a short film, the cost of prints and airfreight being paid by the senders. The majority of the members taking part are using none, or very few, of the films received. Thus they are achieving very little for the costs in-