The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1920-09-17
OIL MOVIE WILL
SHOW CHANGE IN
LOCAL INDUSTRY
Scenario" Calls for Bringing
Breath of Romantic Past to
Mingle With Hustle of Mod
ern Activities.
NOW THINKING TERMS
OIL AND NOT COWBOYS
Effort Made to Include Indians
and Airplanes, Cattle and
Cadillacs in Showing Start
of Local Tests.

Army fliers, Indians, cowboys, cat
tie, breath of the dim misty past
and breezy hustle of the. Twentieth
century, are to all be crowded into
tho movie of Chickassha when this
city becomes the star in the pic
ture that is to advertise to the world
how local citizens turn out to the
spudding in of their oil test accord
ing to plans that are being perfected
through the advertising committee
Of the Chamber of Commerce.
Working with this committee is
T. J. Cannon preident of the Can
non Drilling company, who is to
drill the wildcat test, 16 miles
southeast of Chickasha and d e.
Ellis, attorney for the Cannon com
pany and former instructor in the
aviation corps Of Uncle ANS army.
Effort Get Filters.
Mr.. Ellis lett today for Post Field
where he will get in touch with for
mer "buddies" of the service and
will make an effort through the
commander of Post Field to secure
five army ships to be here on Fri
day. September "a to do stunts for
the movie man while he is "shoot-
ing" scenes about Chickasha. This
effort on the part of the former
flier, is being supported by letters
from the Chickasha Chamber of
Commerce in addition to "stunting
the ships above Chckasha, the plan
IS to have the fliers go to the loca
tlon Of the wildcat test, near Brad
ley and be shot again in connection
with the spudding in of the well.
Others have been dispatched on
the mission of rounding up several
hundred cattle with the ''yipping'
cowboys, to be filmed as they are
driven over stretch of the famous
old Chrisholm trail where millions
of cattle have ben driven from the
grazing lands of Texas to market in
Kansas City. Others are after a
band of Indians to add local color.
1t is the plan to shoot the cattle
as they wind over the trail, bring
ing out on the screen an idea of the
view presented years ago when the
thought of industry here ran in
terms Of cattle, cook wagon, horse
wrangler and cowboy instead of
gushers pipe lines, rotaries, drillers,
tool dressers and roughnecks.
Its Automobiles Now.
The Scenario" calls for cut-in
OF the same scene, following the
cattle shambling over the Chisholm
trial The background will be the
same, but the "set" entirely differ
ent, instead OF cattle, will be shown
scores of automobiles, filled with
Chickasha people, speeding from the
city to the scene of the wildcat test,
showing the sharp contrast between
then and now.
1t is the plan to have 100 to 100
automobiles of .Chckasha lined up
on Chickasha avenue on the morn
ing of September "a They are to
be ready for the start to the wildcat
test. The Pathe movie man. with
camera mounted ON another car, is
to drive by this line of cars, shoot
ing a closeup" of the cars before
they start The winding caravan will
he again shown enroute and, if the
car in which the camera man is to
ride is fast enough, the arrival at
the location of the we'll is to be
shown.
In addition to the automobile
trip. scenes of Chickasha streets.
public places, including the Rock Is
land station. will be shown.
The advertising committee of the
c. c. is making a definite list of
those who may be counted on de-
finitely to have their car ready for
the scenes in Chickasha and the trip