The daily progressive-miner., 1918-09-05
MOTION.PICTURE INDUSTRY ESSENTIAL
 WAR WORK

The War Industries Board author izes the following:
 After hearing before the priori- tics commissioner and other repre-" sentatives of the War Industries ! Beard of the claims of committee representing the entire motion-picture ! in dustry in all its branches from the ! manufacture of the film to the pro l iection of the picture on the screen ] the following conclusions, tentatively reached, are announced.
 Summary of Reasons l CD To the extent of the activities of the industry in connection with the 1 several agencies of the Government, the Red Cross, the Y. M. c. A., the Knights of Columbus engaged in war work, and also to the extent of it's activities in supplying an educational medium and in furnishing to the great masses of the people wholesome and comparatively cheaR .neans of re- creation, it should be, and is recog- nized as an essential industry. i (2) This, in common with prac- 1 tically every other industry, embraces | some elements of nonessentiality, and each member of the industry will pledge himself to discontinue all non- essential production and eliminate all wastefu practices, as these may from time to time be defined by the War Industries Board.
 1 (3) Permits for the erection of new theatre buildigns and equipment of new theatres will be denied until we shall have won the war.
 Local Conditions Considered
 (4) Some localities are overthea- tered, and where this condition exists no new theatre will be opened to re- place those retiring from business. i (5) There is used in the manufac- ture of films nitrate of soda, sulphur e acid, camphor, acetone, wood alco- hol, and linters, all of which are need ed in producing explosives. The inn perative necessity of economiing in the use of these materials is obvious. To that end, the practice of taking number of negatives of a single pie future only one negative will be talk en, savxe where the film is intended for export, when the number will be limited to two.
 (6) Films that are worn out or obso- lete and now carried in stocks will be "scrapped' and returned to the film manufacturers to be worked over and reclaimed and used in the manufac ture of new films. In this way the drafts of the film manufacturer on war materials will be greatly curtail- ed
 CD The studio directors will exer- else the greatest care to insure that only wholesome pictures are produc- ed
 (S) Manufacturers of machines for projecting the picture on the screen will be given preference treatment fer the manufacture of spare and re- pair parts of existing machines and should encourage in every possible way the repair and use of all existing machines rather than junking them and replacing them with new ones.
 (9) The manufacture of new tin containers and of iron boxes for pack ing and shipping film will be discon- tinued and substitutes used therefor, 1 in order that tin and iron may be con- served.
 (10) Those members of the indus try, whatever the nature of their ac- tivities, will be accorded degree of preference to enable them to operate conditioned upon their rigidly ob- serving the rules and regulations which will be prescribed by the War Industries Board.