Developing interest in international cinematography was matched by an increase in the number of Mongolian filmmakers being sent to study abroad. In 1956 more than twenty students were sent to the USSR for industrial and technical internships, as well as universities in other states. A meeting of the Soviet-Mongolian Joint Commission on Cultural Cooperation held during the same year decided to expand the film industry. It was decided that, every year, Mongolia would make 24 short film episodes, translate six