Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1918-08-07
MOVIE PROPA PACANDA
BEST FOR WAR AID
Best Portrayers of Hun Character
And Irrefutable Answers
to Boche Lies.

Washington, Aug D. The story of the
governments policy and activities m
pictoriaizing the WAR, not only for record
and information, but for morale at home
and for combating the German he IN
other countries of the world IS told IN
report which Secretary Baker has laid
before Congress.
II is in reply 10 n resolution Of inquiry
regarding motion and still pictures of the
American Expeditionary Force and 0f the
military preparations at home, and it
shows comprehensive system of picture
activity safeguardcd by permit system
devised by the Committee on Public
Information and approved by the War
Department
fhe pictures are takes by Signal
Corps units and arc shown in thousands
of motion picture houses under contracts
on n commercial basis to help pay the
committees expenses IN motion picture
propaganda
PICTURES FoR CANTONaENT-
'"Thc funds received from these sources,
which are put in the treasury to the
committee'a credit, says the report, do
not represent profit IN any sense Every
cent goes 10 manufacture and distribution
of the enormous amount of him the com
mittec Is compelled to distribute without
return IN foreign countries as part oi the
United States educational campaign All
features and war reviews will be supplied
free Of charge 10 cantonments IN tho init
ed States and to the picture shows on the
firing line in France. The returns are 10
defrav the heavy expense of the free DIS
tribution demanded by the necessities of
our morale at home and even larger ncccs-
sities Of combating the German he IN
other countries Of the world
CIVILIANS MAY MAKE FILMS
General Pershng was allowed last De
| cember TO grant permission ~ outsiders -
| take photographs subject to censorship
of the Expedltionary Force, but the War
| Department has no information as 70
whom ms permission has been gwen.
| Here in the United States, the commit
! tee. in cooperation with the army by order
of the Secretary Of War worked out a
/ permit system to enable civilian photog-
| raphers 10 take pictures Of the war
preparations in this country.
BRING WIDE PUBLICITY.
Permits are limited To Is DAYS from
issue. Photographs cannot be taken of
experiments in materials, entertainments,
or formations, machine gun, targets, OF
carnouhage All have To be censored
promptly and before publication by the
| committee
In the case of q famous seven-reels
! war crIsadlng picture. the materia was
collected by Signal Corps operators IN
France and IN this country TO set before
, the people q comprehensive record Of war
| progress IN this country and in France
Il was shown through the committee
| organization in the principal theatres 81
| the larger cities with patriotic 0rganiza-
| tions and citizens cooperating. In these
showngs, the report explains, there i
10 thought Of profit, the principal idea
beng 10 gain the widest possible pub
lcIty.
OFFERED TO ToF BIDDER.
Then. with their commercial value
! demonstrated, the feature Is offered by
the committee TO the highest bidder d
point of money and distribution. In the
| crusading picture case, the committee
awarded the contract TO the First National
/ Exhibitors Association, the committee
| getting 20 per cent Of the total gross re-
ceipts Of the association from the pictures
under a guaranty Of exhibition ID q MINI
mum Of 2,50O motion picture houses. The
same procedure, according TO Chairman
j Creel will be followed as 70 AL future
feature films prepared by the Commit
tee
+ How representatives Of the committee
and OF the Allied governments differed As
10 war review pictures is disclosed in the
report When the var college material
IS combed FOR feature film material, the
remainder Is used n the Inter-Allied Wa
Review under agreement between the
| committee and representatives Of the
governments Of Great Britain, France aDd
i Italy