The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1917-12-13
GOVERNMENT TO
MAKE PICTURES
OF MUNITIONS

Hartford, Dec. 13-Government
moving picture operators are coming
to Connections within a day or two for
the purpose Of making films which
will preserve for all time direct evid-
ence of the great part this state is
taking in providing munitions for the
use of America and her allies.
| The moving picture camera men
who will come here are officers of the
Signal Corps of the United States
Army, and have been assigned to the
Committee on Public Information for
this special work. The films which
they are making are the official
United States government war films.
Prints of part Of them will be avail
| able by the government for public
showing throughout the country. In
this state they will be shown exclu-
s1vely under the auspices of the
Connecticut State Council of Defense,
which under an agreement with the
Committee on Public Information by
which it bears Connecticut's share in
the expense of making Americas war
1llms, Is to be the only agency in
Connecticut through which these films
can be secured for showing within
the State.
The Government operators who
will come here with their moving
picture machines are Captain Albert
Dawson and First Lieuteant j. T. Nc
Donald of the Signal corps. They
will work under the general direction
Of Walter Niebuhr, Assistant Direc-
tor of the Division of the Films of
the Committee on Public Information.
The Connecticut State Council of De-
tense wi llsasist the government NOV
ing picture men in filming the reels
which are to be taken in this state.
Bridgeport, New Haven, Waterbury,
Hartford and other places are to be
visited.
The government operators will
probably be in Connecticut for a week
or ten days. The pictures which they
make here will be made up largely of
views in Connecticut's great munition
plants, yet the part this state is play
ing in the governments ship-build-
ing program will not be neglected.
The films thus made will be added
to the collection of subjects which
the Committee on Public Information
is distributing through the various
agencies it has appointed in the sew
eral states. The Connecticut State
Council Of Defense already has re-
ceived five reels of the official gov
eminent films, and these will be
shown publicly for the first time at
benefit performances at the Palace
Theatre and at the Majestic Theatre.
Hartford, at 2:15 p. m. on Sunday.
Dec. 18th.
Later they will be shown at bene-
lit performances in other cities. The
State Council Of Defense has agreed
to pay its share Of the governments
expense in Americas official war
movies" The Council has decided
that the State Treasury should not
be drawn upon to meet an expense
of this kind, and consequently has
created the Council of Defense War
Fund. When the pictures are shown
it will be at benefits at which there
will be a charge for admission, and
the proceeds will go to this fund,
From this fund the expenses of secur
ing the official U. S. A. war films
for Connecticut will be paid, and the
balance will be devoted to wa OBJ
Jects on vote Of the Council All the
official moving pictures made by the
government which are released for
public showing will be included in
the series Of films which the council
is to receive. and will be shown in
Connecticut only under it's direction.
In order that this part of it's edu
cational work may be handled in a
systematic manner, the Council has
organized division of moving pic
lures as a part of it's Committee on
Publicity. W. D. Ascough of Hart
ford is director, Charles B. Beach of
Hartford is assistant director, and Fl.
Trowbridge Allen Of Hartford is
treasurer. The Committee on Pub
licity of the Council, and a special
committee consisting of three mem
bers of the Council-Chairman R. M.
Bissell, Major Howard A Giddings,
and Joseph w. Alsop--will assist in
directing this new work.
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