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[Communicated to the Assembly,
the Council and the Members of
the League.]
Official No.: /V* 1 1938.XII.
Geneva, July 26th, 1938.
LEAGUE OF NATIONS
INTELLECTUAL CO-OPERATION ORGANISATION
MODERN MEANS OF SPREADING
INFORMATION UTILISED IN
THE CAUSE OF PEACE
Report by M. de Reynold,
on behalf of the International Committee on Intellectual Co-operation
ACTION TAKEN IN PURSUANCE OF THE RESOLUTION ADOPTED
BY THE ASSEMBLY ON OCTOBER 2nd, 1937
At its eighteenth session (September-October 1937), the Assembly was invited by the
International Committee on Intellectual Co-operation to consider suggestions that had been
put forward by the Advisory Committee on the Teaching of the Principles and Facts of
International Co-operation concerning the use of modern means of disseminating information
to promote a better mutual understanding among the nations of their respective institutions
and cultures.1
The Assembly considered that some of these suggestions were deserving of thorough
study and, with that object, adopted a programme of studies and consultations relating to
the use of the cinematograph and to the use of broadcasting.2
A. Cinematograph
The Assembly entrusted to the International Institute of Intellectual Go-operation and
the International Educational Cinematographic Institute the -execution of a programme of
consultations and enquiries relating more particularly to the work of national organisations
and the training of the taste of the public and of young people in regard to the cinematograph.
As the work of the International Educational Cinematographic Institute came to an end
at the beginning of 1938, it was impossible to carry out the programme contemplated by the
Assembly. Nevertheless, the International Institute of Intellectual Co-operation undertook
some of the studies suggested by the Assembly, and the International Committee has been
able to examine the results of these first efforts. After hearing the statement concerning
the work undertaken which was made by the Director of the Institute, the Committee on
Intellectual Co-operation adopted the following resolution :
“ The International Committee on Intellectual Co-operation, while noting the delay
due to circumstances in carrying out the programme approved by the League Assembly
in 1937, has considered what steps should be taken in order not to leave the main items
of the programme in abeyance and, after examining the results of the work now
proceeding, recommends the adoption of the following programme :
(1) International Liaison. — The Committee attaches the utmost importance to
the efforts made to resume direct contact with existing film institutions, and with
corporative organisations in the different countries, and institutions, groups or
committees interested on various grounds in the intellectual and artistic progress of the
cinema. It considers that the liaison and documentary work undertaken to this end
by the International Institute of Intellectual Co-operation should be actively pursued
and accompanied by continuous efforts to promote the establishment of new institutions
in countries where they do not as yet exist. The principal recommendations in the
1 See document C.327.M.220.1937.XII, Part II.
2 See document A.68.1937.XII.
Series of League of Nations Publications
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