The Sunday telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1914-1927, 1914-12-20
MERCER COUNTY
SCENES TAKEN
BY MOVIE MAN
Coal Industry to Be Reproduced
on the Screen at Frisco
Exposition.

BLUEFIELD, Dec. 1s.-G. A. Bold
en-, secretary of the West Virginia
commission having this states ex-
hibit at the Panama Exposition in
! charge has been here several days,
accompanied by n. E. Mehrie, the Of
fetal camera man, taking motion pic
ture views of points OF interest in this
section.
Already at the Elks' opera house
the moving picture films which will
constitute the exhibit of the coal in
terests and the Norfolk and Western
railway have been projected for the
inspection of the coal men, the rail-
road people and their guests. There
are about 5000 feet of these films.
The state at present has total Of
10000 feet of films and will have
5000 more when the exhibit is COM
plete. 1t will take about six hours
to project all Of this film and it is
proposed to have three hours show
in the afternoon and another three
hours, show at night all during the
exposition.
Building Nearing Completion
mir. Bolden says that the state
building at the exposition is nearing
completion, and it will be taken over
by the state commission at once. The
furnishings, carpets, pictures and
hangings will be placed so that the
building will be completed in every
detail by the opening date OF the eX7
position, February 20, next.
The site was selected early in 1913
by Col. Fred Paul Grosscup, of Char
lesion, and Hon. G. o. Nagle, OF
Wheeling, acting then under the d.
rection of Gov. William L. Glasscock.
The site overlooks the Preside, and
is not far from the United States
building, with free and unobstruct-
ed view of the Golden Gate. The
building, 115 feet four inches long,
stands on lot with 200 feet 'front.'
age and 100 feet in depth, affording
front, rear and side yards, which will
be beautifully laid out in West yir-
ginia trees. flowers and shrubbery.
A cement walk, thirty-two feet
wide, leads from the main EXPOSE
ton street TO the building entered
from steps, also the same width. A
veranda seventy-seven feet long and
fourteen feet deep, extends across
the arcade of the building, opening
through nine large French glass
windows to the interior. The main
entrance is directly opposite the
steps. This entrance opens into the
main reception hall, S2x52 feet, with
a fine circular dome seventy-seven
feet long. Opposite the entrance Is
a fine fire place. To either side Of the
hall are seats built in, and at the
ends OF each, OF these flights of stair
way lead up to the mezzanine floor.
To Show Mountain Scenery
Originally it was intended to have
similar reception halls at each end OF
the main hall, but later changes
were made and the motion picture
theater was built. Herein will be
shown the $4,000 feet of film every
day. These pictures have been made
under the direction OF Mr.. Bolden and
Commissioner of Agriculture Howard
E. Williams. The scenes will show
fine panoramas OF wild mountain
scenery; cultivated and uncultivated
land; forests, streams, apple, peach,
pear and other orchards; corn fields,
wheat field, bucSwheat fields; herds
of pure bred cattle, horses, swine and
sheep; of these subjects about $4,000
feet of film will be shown. The bal
ance will be Industrial film, showing
the industries OF the state, oil, gas,
coal, lumber. clay. .quarries, tinplate,
iron. steel, glass. chemicals, wooden
ware, etc.
The state sold about 10000 feet of
industrial film, in order to pay for
that which advertises only the states
natural resources. Many states
have placed theaters with their build
ings at the exposition, and the visi
tors to the great show will have an
opportunity to visit all the United
States in movies.
Property Of the State
The film taken for West Virginia
building will become the property of
the state after being displayed every
day during the show, afternoons and
evenings, and eventually pass to the
agricultural department, SO that It
can be exhibited at various other ex-
positions and land and horticultural
shows throughout this and probably
other countries.