Cinema educativo, instrutivo e científico no Brasil: redes de sociabilidade e ações políticas em sua institucionalização (1920-1947)

Abstract

The educational cinema appears in Brazil with some proposals composing a significant triad; entertain, instruct and educate. Thus, the goal was to present the population principles in the quest to form a "good" citizen, in this way the educational cinema was seen as a modern and attractive means to achieve this purpose. The State itself did not work hard to achieve this goal. And for that, the creation of organs that could account for this structure that went through: censorship, distribution and even film productions, began to form the agenda of debates and meetings. The relationship between educational cinema and the main political actions that form the basis for the creation of the National Institute of Educational Cinema (INCE) point to "sociability structures" or "networks of sociability" that permeate this project. Through these networks we try to understand the actions of the main actors involved: Jonathas Serrano, Venâncio Filho, Roquette-Pinto and Humberto Mauro. Forming a basis of analysis that presents the dynamics that involved these intellectuals that constituted the movement that would culminate in the institutionalization of the educational cinema in Brazil. This research process becomes important to advance the understanding of the object of study that is inserted in the field of History of Education