The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1919-02-04
Pathe News May
Feature Folks
Fine Roads

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nationwide publicity for Polk county
in which, of course, Lakeland will gel
her full share.
A representative delegation Of citl'
zens from all sections of the county
went before the County Commission
ers yesterday afternoon to ask thei,
cooperation In the matter which they
have taken under advisement, not as
to the scheme itself but rather how
best to arrange for the necessary f.
nancing.
The plan is to have county wide
celebration of the completion of the
highways and this to take the shape
OF monster motorcade made up OF
cars from all parts of the county with,
perhaps, suitable floats and other sim
liar features. The motorcade is to
take in the various towns and the
whole thing will be photographed for
moving picture film of Polk county
its communities, resources, indus
tries and attractions of all kinds.
Fine views are to be taken Of the
various roads in the county, the level
roads, the billy roads, the lake shore
roads, but this will be only one fea-
ture Of the film. The finest groves
in the county, both in perspective as
backgrounds for other charming pic.
lures, and also close up, showing
trees with their fruit in full size, Sc
lected clusters from selected groves.
Picking in the groves. transportation
from there to the packing houses by
means of auto trucks and trailers; the
process of preparing the fruit for the
market, including washing, grading,
packing, loading, ETC., is to be por-
trayed for. the benefit of hundreds of
thousands Of people from the north
who are writing for literature on
Florida but who will 60 wild to see
actual pictures full of life and mo-
ton describing as in no other way
possible all the delights of living in
this favored part Of America.
Nor is the contemplated film to be
confined to roads and groves, Some Of
our best farms, stock, industries Of
various kinds, in fact the best of ev-
erything in the way Of objects setting
forth the resources and attractiveness
Of Polk county.
1t is contemplated by the Pathe
representative that approximately
1000 feet of film will be necessary to
make a proper picture, dealing fairly
with the various parts of the county
and the cost of same would be $1,000
or SO cents per foot. This is for
the picture put on the screen and ap
proved by committee appointed to
handle the details of the matter. No
money will be required until the pic.
ture has been accepted.
The value of the picture after it's
acceptance will be in producing it in
the picture houses in such parts of
the country as may be decided by
those in charge of the matter. 1t is
not contemplated that there will be
any charge for this circulation, as
there is big demand all over the
country for scenic pictures a. high
rates, and especially for Florida
scenes.
The county of Los Angeles has over
100 similar films and the city of Los
Angeles alone has As. Some of Cali
fornias best advertising in recent
years has been through the medium
of the moving picture screen.
This form of publicity for Polk
county will be of direct benefit to
thousands of our citizens and of in
direct benefit to all. We should all
take pride in telling our northern
friends what we have in Florida and
one can hardly imagine any citizen of
Polk county objecting to an invest
ment of two and one half cents per
capita in exchange for something
which will bring continual stream
OF wealth to this part of the State.
Polk county has the best roads and
is the only county in the United
States of America having road
from every town in the county to ev-
cry other town.
Polk county has the best citrus
fruit of any county in the State and
Polk county is the best all-round
county in the State. We know this
ourselves but we want thousands OF
other good people to know 1t and II
Ia believed by those who are at the
back OF the proposed scheme that
Polk county can reach more people |
and more convincingly reach them
by this method than in any other way
The Commissioners will meet agair |
on Wednesday afternoon at 2:30 10
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