Show FILMS VALUE IN RECORD OF LIFE IS BEYOND PRICE wien when it a race rac e or tribe lies dies out the record of its habits often dies with it there may bo be left buildings or pottery or drawings it if not writings from which archaeologists archeologists can piece together some picture of what these lost peoples were like in their dally daily life but the picture Is incomplete perhaps fragmentary the lost races remain remote and unreal the Is now to find a new nuy ally in the film or rather are arche he in lays days to come will fin find I 1 them themselves selver served by films made in our time of peoples who are now disappearing caring oil and who will soon he be beyond record tile the congress of anthropologists which has just been meeting in L loridon london has decided to set up a pernin neit committee to supervise the mm alini documentation of races which are in d danger anger of dying out the committee will have two main duties first it will try to bring together what materials of the kind already exist often as they say in the most unlikely places news reels tropical films dims etc as a sort of central film reference library the second duty Is to send out expeditions tv tr places where the native I 1 tants are in danger of disappearing or of being absorbed ip ducr groups oito advise traveler tra clera 0 it such places on oil the alie way to make a niro record of scientific value oile ode roust must not expect too much from the men idea nt as it Is of sending out special expeditions in search of suitable edi table material the committees resources will mill no doubt be small email and it might vit latke scientific value of the pictures ures tit an if they had to pay for them by sale for popular 0 x hibit loh but aut there la Is sound work to bo be done on oil less exacting lines ow one might add the suggestion that it 18 not only the he manners of vanishing peoples which should be recorded but the many vanishing van ashing customs eus of peoples whose survival depends on their I 1 or adapting themselves to new ways of life Manc manchester liester ling eng Cu guardian ardlan |