Characteristics of the National Institute of Educational Cinema: administrative organization and categorization of its narratives

Abstract

This article was constructed from the analysis of ninety-nine productions of the National Institute of Educational Cinema (INCE), Brazil, between 1936 and 1945. I chose this historical cut because of the vast production of films that occurred in the period that, not for is compatible with the great state investment in education and political propaganda that marked the Estado Novo. For the greater understanding of the nature of the cinematographic narratives, appear in the text aspects of the creation of the Institute analyzed in the light of the administrative management of the Vargas government. The debates and circulation of ideas regarding the use of cinema in the service of education are also part of the present study, as well as the emphasis on the methodological necessity of categorizing the ninety - nine narratives analyzed, in order to map their themes and approaches. It is emphasized that the aim of the systematization was to understand the variety and richness of those productions in order to solve doubts about the nature of INCE and its attempts. In the course of this article I will deal with some of these specific films, since, through them, it was possible to identify indications of the attempts made by the Brazilian State, influenced by the education of the masses.