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1 Cum. Dig. Int'l L. & Rel. 1 (1930-1931)
International Movement of Films

handle is hein.journals/ilanrelat1 and id is 105 raw text is: CUMULATIVE DIGEST OF INTERNATIONAL LAW AND RELATIONS RESEARCH ASSISTANTB DIRECTOR ELLERY C. STOWELL ALBERT H. GARRETSON AMERICAN UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL MARGARETS.RAMSEY SECRETARY 1901 F STREET NORTHWEST FREDERIKA CRITCHETT HELEN S. BRABROOK WASHINGTON. D. C. REBECCA MATTHEWS INTERNATIONAL MOVEMENT OF FILMS Mussolini has said that three great discoveries, the discovery of movable printing type, the discovery of the dark chamber for photo- graphy and the discovery of the motion picture, mark three fundamental steps in the progress of the human spirit, three formidable instruments for the conquest and diffusion of culture; and of all of these Italy's premier thinks the moving picture the most important because it talks to the eyes, that is, it speaks a language comprehensible to all peoples of the earth-4' This statement becomes much more than opinion when we are told that every week the moving picture reaches over 300,000,000 persons in all parts of the world; that during 1927 and 1928 3,108,000,000 people saw pictures of Lindberghts famous flight and subsequent good will tours. The importance and significance of the moving picture in international relations need not be pressed. The moving picture is today the mqst powerful influence shaping the international attitude of the man in the street. How else does the great bulk of humanity gain its impressions of another people, their habits, characteristics and traditions? How else can international propaganda so effectively reach the minds of mil- lions? Mussolini's interest in the moving picture as a primary educational medium was undoubtedly a factor in the offer of the Italian Government to create at Rome an International Educational Cinematogra.phic Institute under the direction of the League of Nations, but to be carried out at the expense of the Italian Government and established in a palace offered by that Government.$V The Organic Statute of the Institute as approved by the League Council on September 26, 1928, provides that the program of the Institute as drawn up at the yearly meetings of the Governing Body shall have due regard to the powers of the various international insti- tutions (in particular the International Institute of Intellectual Co- operation and the International Labor Office) and the work of any other competent international body, in particular the Child Welfare Committee?/ The Organic Statute also provides that the Italian member of the Inter- national Institute o Intellectual Cooperation be president of the Govern- ing Body ex officio.v'N The present Director of the Institute is M. Luciano de Feo of Italy. Mr. Carl E. Millikin, General Secretary of the Motion 1. The Responsibility of the Motion Picture Industry in Interna- tional Relations, Jason Joy, Institute of International Relations, River- side, California, Proceedings, Vol. 4, 1928, p. 169. 2. Resolution of the Assembly of the League of Nations, September 20, 1927. 3. International Educational Cinematographic Institute ... Report to the Council on the Third Session of the Governing Body of the Institute, Geneva, 1930, Sub-appendix E, Article X, p.21. 4. Ibid. Sub-appendix E, Article V, p. 21. Reproduction by Permission of Buffalo & Erie County Public Library Buffalo, NY Bulletin No. 45 and 46 November 9, 1931

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