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IN Film Progress of July, the Central Information Bureau for Educational Films, Ltd., announced the impending release of “Living in Wales”, the second of its series of talking films designed to help the peoples of the world to gain a clearer insight into each other's lives and thereby to promote sympathetic mutual understanding. The first of the series, “Living in the Netherlands”, is reported to have been well received both at The Hague and in London. “Living in Wales” was used at the Congres Internationale de 1'Enseignement Primaire et de FEducation Populaire to illustrate an address by Dr. G. H. Green of Aberystwyth on “The Cinematograph as a Means of Education for International Understanding”. The paper emphasizes the fact that the educational film is not merely an additional means of illustrating or confirming what the teacher conveys through the medium of words, but also provides the closest possible approximation to real first-hand experience. It postulates four essentials for the success of films as instruments for promoting international understanding: an adequate supply of suitable trustworthy films, efficient machinery for production, distribution and publicity, comprehensive experiments and investigations into the technique of education by means of the film, and a centre for acquainting teachers not merely with the films and projectors available but also with all matters relating to films. The same issue of Film Progress announces the decision of Osaka City authorities to build an “Educational Movie Hall” at a cost of 500,000 yen for the benefit of primary school pupils.
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Films for Promoting International Understanding. Nature 141, 29 (1938). https://doi.org/10.1038/141029c0
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