The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1918-07-28
HOW THE ENEMY
GETS WAR MOVIES
German Film Office Sends Soldier
photographers into Field
to Picture Fighting
a STORY : OF THEIR WORK
Careful Attention. Given TO Keeping
! the People at Home Interested In
y. Army Operations Two Picture
Mcn Mt Work.

The following account OF the work
Of the moving picture operators and
photographersi IN the German army is
translated from the Tagliche Rund-
schAu OF June 20:
~Onx the military roads in the en-
Guy land there moves long train OF
CANNON, Ynunition wagons and special
pagg4ge. Among them there appears
An automobile that does not ii, into the
war picture It looks rather like the
apparatus OF n scientific enterprise,
Apparently 1t carries all kind of pho
tographic material. That is a Aim
troop which has struggled itself in
amid the great wave or war which
surges over the ways. as II seeking
protection and security for its peace
ful operation.
There are also soldiers who belong
to the expedition. In the field all
wear uniforms and that as rightly So
What would civilian want here
Only the soldier may play the pho'og-
rapher. man who enjoys the right OF
/. the warriors and has accepted the re-
sponsihtltties All Is arranged in the
best way for this particular work. Tor
the production OF war pictures of all
kinds a special picture and film office
has been created whose name the
reader has certainly seen in one of
his illustrated papers. IL he has taken
the trouble to inquire after the source
where most OF us are accustomed too
little to trouble ourselves.
This picture and film office is SUI
poTvised by first lieutenant; upon 1t
10 dependent further a film bureau.
This sends out the film troops. Their
work can be quickly stated-they are.
X needs be. sent far away. They may
have to take up their work somewhere
in Mesopotamia IL the interest there
1usttfies II.
I'VE have come upon film troop
In the field. Lucky for 1t. IL 1t can
use an automobile for what is on the
program for 1t. A skillful chauffeur
drives the car. and by him is an as
sistant who can spring to his aid If
the driver should fail. In the car
there Is a small select company. The
first is the leader. naturally an ofncer.
He has one or two couriers who have
to keep up connections with home,
then Aim photographer, plate pho
toErapher and finally a carrier, who.
work often difficult and highly neccs-
sary and Indispensable. For moving
forward is not always SO fine as on the
smooth streets.
Two Photographers.
'Thus two artists accompany the
troop. The one. the plate photogra-
pher, has nothing to do with the Aim
Ing. He simply taEes still-life pic
lures as photographers always have
done before the art of the living pic
ture came In. There is work for him,
however, in abundance. All that we
see printed In the way OF pictures is
his work and we must often marvel
at the skill with which the photogra-
pher has chosen the subject OF the
pictures which come from his plates.
when In the moving picture the
atre, we see the weekly war review
unrolled before us we must thank the
film photographer for this pleasure,
and he is glad to hear himself de-
scribed as the operator As II in a
magic mantle. he carries US into the
midst of the war activity We storm
with the others. I'VE rum upon the par
rage, the grenAdes strike near US, and
there we sit quietly upon our soft
eoats. tar from tho firing. That Sill
mach-ahussd art ~ moving rtcfurel
Naakeo peeeahle.