Evening star., 1922-09-03

to be seen and enjoyed there. He
went to South America on a United
States Shipping Board vessel, the voy-
age occupying three weeks. when the
passengers would have been glad 70
see any kind of a film, and the oppor-
tunity was lost.
AS result of this Secretary
Hoover has taken up with the Ship.
ping Board the proposition to show
the American Industrial films on ali
Shipping Board vessels as an impor-
tant phase of trade promotion and
goodwill development.
Secretary Hoover is also going to
make'it a part of the official duty OF
all the trade commissioners and coma
mercial attaches in foreign countries
to exploit American goods through
these industrial films. just as Ger
many has long been doing.
Besides the working out of these
American industrial films through in
ternational expositions and through
American trade agents. Uncle Sam has
found another effective way to inter
est his world neighbors. One or the
most remarkable films ever made is
"The Story of an Automobile" This
was produced in cooperation with
the Studebaker Corporation OF Amer
lea. and cost more than $4,000. II
shows in most graphic way the
methods used in the manufacture OF
a high-grade American automobiie
from. the raw steel to the service
tests on the finished product from the
South Bend Und) plant.
Foreign Omcials Invited.
When this finn was received 10
Washington a special performance
was given in the theater of the In
terror Department building. to which
foreign officials from all the embas-
sizes and legations were invited. AS
an immediate result, requests were
received from nine officials asking for
copies to be shown in their respec-
tive countries. AS showing the broad
ness Of this request, II should be ex-
planned that they came from some of
the new nations of central Europe
from some of the smallest republics
in South America and from some OF
the largest and oldest nations Of the
world, such as Russia and China TINS
same film is being exhibited in this
country in such schools as the Massa-
chusetts Institute of Technology, De-
fore automobile chambers of COM
! merce, and in 4. every state in the
Union In a general education program
There has just been completed, after
about two years work, very re-
markable film in cooperation Wiea
the United States Steel Corporation.
for which there is a strong demand
from educa tional institutions. cham
bers of commerce. boards of trade.
etc. This film was made primarily
for use in Brazil. and it is to be
shown at the Brazilian exposition
which opens this week. 1t pictures
all the stages of operation OF the
steel industry and its subsidiaries In
the United States, such as tinplate'
pipes, wire fences, tubes, etc. 1t car
ries the spectators from the grca.
iron mines in northern Michigan to
the finished product. 1t depicts the
various processes from the mining OF
the ore, passing through the trans
porta ton period, blast furnace opera
tions and the making Of steel by the
| Bessemer, open-hearth and electric
processes The spectators are shown
the many welfare and social activi-
ties which are carried on by this cor
poration for the benefit of its en-
ployes.
Another Aim that has just been
completed is. the STORY of Compressed
Air" showing the use Of air drills and
, compressors in mining operations and
/, construction work Of every charac-
. ter. 1t was taken in cooperation
, with the Compressed Air Society. and
/, is to be sent to all the countries or
the world and to educational institu-
tions and civic organizations through
out the United States.
Work is to start next Tuesday on
film which will visualize the produc-
/ tion OF the Cadillac eight-cylinder
! angle motor.
] Prompted by letter from the COM
missioner general of the Brazilian ex-
! position, particularly urging Secre-
tary Hoover to send down to the
worlds fair a Aim of the American
lumber industry, Mr.. Leopold ap-
peared last Thursday before the
president and other officers OF the
/; National Association of Lumber Man
! ufactfrers. who are going to CO.
| onerate with the Department of CONF
merce and the bureau of mines IN
preparation of that film.
: Film Values Abroad.
| At the meeting of the National Ass
| sociation Of Agricultural Implement
Manufacturers in Chicago last week
| the leaders in the industry empha-
sized the value of American films
abroad, and especially in the new
countries, where agriculture is the
principal. and, in fact, only, means
| of livelihood. As a result several
films of various important phases OF
this industry are to be prepared
Probably the most pretentious in-
dustrial film ever attempted Is The
Worlds Struggle for OIL" which viii
! cost at least 100000. II shows the
entire history of oil from the days OF
Cleopatra, with scenes in the Sahara
desert, the Egyptians fighting for oil
seepages in the desert, which were
used for medicinal purposes. As part
of this film an exact replica was made
of the first oil well drilled in Penn
sylania, in 1857. This Aim, when COM
pleted, will be shown in practically
every theater in the United States.
| The Department of Commerce has
made q check-up on whether the in
dustries which have co-oper1ted with
the bureau OF foreign and domestic
commerce and the bureau of mines