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THE SCREEN WRITER
have been in operation for years; some under private sponsorship, others (especially during the war) under Government aegis. But there has never been any large-scale attempt to organize similar projects in the film field.
After a series of stimulating conferences in London and Paris with eminent film educators and technicians an outline proposal was drafted. This was accepted in principle by the British Film Institute (National Film Library and Research Center of England), The Associa¬ tion of Cine-Technicians (National British Film Trade Union), Cine¬ matheque Frangaise (National French Film Library and Research Center), the Syndicat des Technicians de la Production Cinematograprique (National French Film Trade Union) , and the Institut des Hautes Etudes des Cinematographique (The new Paris School of Motion Pictures) .
The Soviet Cultural Attache in Paris also voiced considerable inter¬ est but preferred to withhold official comment until the plan should assume concrete form.
The proposal tentatively calls for a continuous yearly rotation of film students to England, France, America, and the U.S.S.R. Small units of not more than twenty students, democratically chosen by the spon¬ soring organizations, would be rotated for three to four month periods of film study in each of the four countries. Whether the student groups would be composed of undergraduate film majors or young technicians in the industry or a combination of both would largely depend on the prevailing educational conditions in the various nations.
In America for example there would be over 4000 eligible students either majoring in a four-year film curriculum at New York University, University of Southern California, University of California at Los Ange¬ les (beginning this fall) or taking individual elective film courses offered in some 30 universities and colleges throughout the country.
In England the situation would be slightly different. As yet no regular curriculums in films are available, though Mr. Korda has given Oxford University a considerable grant for the purpose of initiating a series of film courses. But the British Film Institute does offer occa¬ sional summer seminars in films, and the British Film Industry and Documentary Film Units have employed a sizable amount of young
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