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5. Application of the Convention for facilitating the International Circulation
of Films of an Educational Character
The International Committee on Intellectual Co-operation,
Referring:
To the Convention for facilitating the International Circulation of Films of an Educational
Character, adopted at Geneva on October nth, 1933;
To the proces-verbal drawn up by the Diplomatic Conference of September 12th, 1938, whereby
the functions exercised by the International Educational Cinematographic Institute in connection
with the carrying-out of the said Convention have been entrusted to the Committee;
To the decision of the League Assembly (nineteenth session, September 1938) authorising it to
perform these new duties;
To the Regulations for the application of the Convention, drawn up to give effect to
Article XIII of the Convention and approved by the League Council at its hundred-and-fifth
session (May 1939);
To the notification from the Secretary-General of the League of Nations, dated June 29th,
1939, fixing the date of the entry into force of the Proces-verbal of September 12th, 1938, for
August 28th, 1939:
Notes that at the present time the legal conditions required for the re-entry into force of the
Convention are completely fulfilled, and that it is called upon to take the necessary steps to give
effect to them.
It has accordingly drawn up the following provisions:
(a) Special Committee to examine Applications.
Considering that present circumstances do not permit of the constitution of the special
committee to examine applications provided for in Article 1 of the Regulations, the International
Committee on Intellectual Co-operation has decided to adopt, for the year 1939/40, a provisional
system enabling the Convention to function under its direct responsibility.
To this end, it delegates its powers to an ad hoc committee, to be known as the “ Committee
for the Application of the Convention ”, and appoints as members:
M. Francisco Garcia-Calderon, Minister Plenipotentiary of Peru, Member of the
International Committee on Intellectual Co-operation;
M. Julien Cain, Administrator-General of the National Library, Paris;
Mr. Malcolm Davis, Director of the Carnegie Foundation for Peace;
who will be assisted in their duties by:
M. Marcel Lebrun, Director of the Musee pedagogique de 1’Etat, Paris;
M. Richard Ordynski, ex-President of the Supreme Cinematographic Council in Poland,
former Counsellor to the International Educational Cinematographic Institute;
M. Eliseu Montarroyos, Special Counsellor to the Brazilian Embassy at Paris,
Government Delegate to the International Institute of Intellectual Co-operation;
M. Stromberg, Author, Press Attache to the Swedish Legation at Paris.
The Committee for the Application of the Convention may also consult, if necessary, such
competent experts as it may select.
The Chairman of the Governing Body of the International Institute of Intellectual Co¬
operation will sign, on behalf of the Chairman of the Special Committee to examine Applications,
the certificates issued in accordance with Article IV of the Convention and Article 6 of the
Regulations.
The Committee for the Application of the Convention will remain in office until the next
session of the International Committee on Intellectual Co-operation. Should circumstances
permit, however, the Executive Committee may proceed to constitute in the normal way the
Special Committee to examine Applications.
When informing the International Committee on Intellectual Co-operation of the accomplish¬
ment of its task, the Committee for the Application of the Convention will submit such observations
and proposals as experience of the application of the Convention during this initial period may
suggest.
(b) Organisations authorised to examine Applications for Exemption from Customs Charges in
the Countries Parties to the Convention.
The Committee for the Application of the Convention may provisionally accept the immediate
assistance of the organisations proposed to it, during the year 1939/40, by the Governments of
the countries parties to the Convention for the performance of the functions laid down in the
Appendix to the Regulations. It will rest with the International Committee on Intellectual
Co-operation finally to approve these organisations, in the light of the favourable opinion of the
Committee for the Application of the Convention.
(c) Role of the International Institute of Intellectual Co-operation.
The Committee authorises the Director of the International Institute of Intellectual
Co-operation:
(i) To take such practical steps of an administrative and technical nature as are calculated
to ensure the smooth working of the Convention;