Connecticut western news., 1916-11-02
ID MAKE MOVIES
 OF THE WROLEU s.
National Highways Association
 to Picture Nation.
SEE AMERICA FIRST MOVE

A. L. WeSt9aFO 10 ITdNeI GO'ooo "iiss
 In Auto During Year Snapping Beau ty Scenic Spots of Country, Indus tries of Every State and Good Roads.
 To make motion pictures of the whole i United States is the job A. l.. West Card, who has travelled more miles of roads in all automobile than any living man. has now set himself.
 The automobile motion picture tour. which is to extend for more than 25.- 900 miles, take more rhan year and include every state i'll the Union. is made under the auspices of the Ma tional Highways association. of which organization Mr. Westgard is director of transcontinental highways. and with the cooperation of the interior department. which has arranged for Mir. Westgard to take all the pictures he wants ill government reservations. national monuments. national parks and forest reserves.
 Thousands of Scenes.
 Starting Oct. 20 from Trinidad. Colo. MT. Westgard is piloting his two big automobiles southward, staying in the warm countries during the winter months. He will not only point his lenses at the we'll known scenic beau- ties, such as the Garden of the Gods Grand canyon, petrified forest. etc., but upon thousands of scenes, indus tries and natural curiosities that the general travelling public knows little.
 Having crossed the continent eleven times in automobiles by every avail able route and gone north and south from the gulf and Mexican border to l the Canadian line by the same means more times than he can count, Mir Westgard is in possession of unique information regarding roads, views, natural wonders and the like to enable him to find and photograph many scenes never before pictured
 Two automobiles carry the party of six, consisting of MT. Westgard. his wife and son, cook and two camera men. The ears are completely equip ped with everything needed for the most eXacting tour-a camping outfit. ropes, pulleys. tools, searchlights, ba- AOAhCIClSs dNOAIClCIy CINs, lIoL ohiJ lO make it possible to get to inaccessible points, but to enable MT. Westgard to make more of those maps and collec- tions of data about roads which have been his life work.
 With the war abroad cutting down foreign travel from thousands of tour ists to exactly none, there has grown I great desire to See America First ? But seeing America is a possibility to only a few.
 To "know America"
 It is not Mir. Westgards plan to con- fine his work to mere physical beauty, although he knows and will picture scenes seldom. if ever. put on the screen. But to know America" it is i necessary to see her Indian tribes, ami i nal life, vegetation, archaeology. her industries, her resources. her waters and her mountains. her railroads and her factories, as well as her Yosemite& and her Crater lakes. her YellowstoneS and her Grand canyons.
 These pictures will be made and re leased to picture theaters by states. so that a comprehensive "eye lecture" on edcu Ol our great pollIlcdl ulNlSlOIS will be the result of each reel of film The principal industries of each state will be emphasized, whether stock rais- 1 ing or agriculture. mineral wealth or manufacturing, scenic beauty or wa i ter power, timber or fisheries. showing 1 not only the beauty and the interest l but the permanent basis of prosperity of the country. Many of the pictures will be taken far off the line of com- l mon travel, opening up new vistas to those who as yet "know America" only by railroad train or good roads.