Evening star., 1922-10-18
USE OF FILMS is URGED
TO LESSEN VlVISECTION
Correspondent Quotes Scientist and
Says Views Will Be 1ndorsed
by All Humanitarians.

To the Editor Of The Star:
A few days ago you published an
item stating that DR.. Walter r.
Hadwen, president Of the British
Union for the Abolition Of Vivisection.
was making a speaking tour of the
United States opposing vivisection.
Thousands Of humanitarians will re-
joice at that news. They feel that the
entire practice should be wiped out.
II this cannot be accomplished at
can be and should be materially
decreased.
Writing to a French paper in Paris,
DR.. j. Comandon says:
But one can diminish the number
Of animals sacrificed.
"In all the colleges. in the medical
schools. and even in certain classes
Of the lyceum. hundreds OF animals
are used annually for the same ex-
periments, under the same conditions,
and the reason Is because 1t is we'll
understood that neither sketches or
ing the different moments and the
results Of the operation, can take the
place of the experiment. can show the
movements of the hands and the In
struments Of the psychologist or the
reactions of the organism, the beating
l.,
respiration. etc.
"rhere Is an instrument, however.
which reproduces all these details
with precision; 1t is the cinemato-
graph.
"When an experiment is well done
and Inscribed In the Aim, and then
shown to large audience, each one
present can follow it precisely and In
all its details.
Even by varying the rapidity Of
the exposure the cinematosraph can
quicken or retard the movements
sometimes great advantages for
demonstration
"Of course, in order to obtain each
film, one or even more animals must
be sacrificed. but afterward hundreds
Of others are spared, for not only the
demonstration representing a scien-
tific experiment can be presented to
many students at time, but docu-
ment is obtained of which millions
of copies can be produced for the
different universities of the world and
for future generations of students
without number.
"The demonstration by the cinemato-
graph has certain marked advantages
over the animal demonstration.
1.-The first advantage Is that It
reaches simultaneously a greater
number of spectators.
ne second duNdHtdSc 10 "CiA
known to all experimentalists-o
works well only in the silence and In
partial solitude. A delicate expert
ment carried on before public as
sembly is rarely followed with entire
success.
1.-The film, on the contrary, is better
The scientist is not worried by 1t. for
he realizes that during its making
he produces an experiment worthy
Of being extensively useful. These
ideas can be easily realized
indeed many psychologists. and by no
means obscure ones, have had the
same thought and have commenced
to put them in practice.
TN France, at the faculties OF
medicine in Paris. in Lyon. In
Bordeaux, at the Pasteur Institutes
in Paris and in Lille, even in certain
lyceums, Is installed cinematograph
apparatus. Thus the method of In
struction by the cinematograph Is
being seriously organized, perhaps
more abroad than in France, where
the physiologist Marcy. who had both
a great mind and a great heart,
created the wonderful instrument. the
cinematograph, SO especially adapted
for physiological studies.
let us widely introduce this In
strument, for scientific instruction. in
the lyceums for the benefit Of the
students who will moro easily follow
the professors explanations-make 1t
known equally to protect animals
against useless sacr1dcss-theses our