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THE first Scientific Film Conference in Great Britain met in the County Buildings, Ayr, during August 1 and 2. In Ayrshire there are four scientific film societies in operation, while an Army and an Air Force camp also arrange periodic shows of scientific films. The Conference was attended by forty-three delegates appointed by the film societies, universities and technical colleges, research institutes, technical departments of local government bodies and the Association of Scientific Workers. Dr. Norman Wright, director of the Hannah Dairy Research Institute, Mr. Arthur Elton and Dr. Blodwen Lloyd presided at the three sessions held on August 1. The delegates decided to form a National Federation of Scientific Film Societies, which would co-ordinate the activities of a Scottish and an English association of such societies. The great need for the increased production and showing of good scientific films was stressed by Mr. Elton (Ministry of Information) during a symposium on “The Scientific Film”, to which Miss Mary Field (Gaumont British), Dr. A. Clow (University of Aberdeen), Mr. Stewart Paterson (Ardrossan S. F. S. ) and Dr. B. Lloyd (Glasgow S. F. S. ), among others, contributed papers. There was general approval of a resolution that both the winning of the War and the planning of post-war reconstruction require the application of the scientific method, and that a wider understanding of this method could most readily be achieved through the medium of the film.
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Scientific Film Conference. Nature 150, 230 (1942). https://doi.org/10.1038/150230c0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/150230c0