The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-05-20

Hollywood.
Bv PAIL PATERSON

AAI . EAOA AAkMMIMEM0OAN TEA Service Staff Correspondent |aollywood.-By no means all the pvies made in Hollywood or by bllywood people are born to flicker the featured spots of entertain lsnt bills. There are propaganda ctures, and purely academic films, Id industrial subjects in addition lots of dramatized advertising. l0nly about 200 producers are en- |Iged in turning out celluloid enter nment. More than 15O other pro- cers are busy with commercial Id educational films.
 
 t for Civilians
 The federal government, through feral of its various agencies, kes about as many movies each hr as the average studio. The de- rtment of agriculture has some subjects in its library, though 1t It very active now in making new es.
 The war department prO- luces approximately 20 pictures year in addition to World War end tactical reels not usually h0wn to any civilians. The de- partment of the interior has 5S ubjects.
 Longest movie ever made by cle Sam, with the treasury de- ftment serving as producer. was 12-reel health subject mostly bwn in army camps.
 Nine pictures have been made the federal housing admins tion, four by the WPA, and one the department of commerce. e Tennessee Valley. authority
 the women's bureau of the bartment of labor each has 'ned out 8 series.
 Host widely exhibited federal Iduction is "The Flow That bke the Plains" made by the ettlement administration. It's lying abroad just now-to what Eience response I have been un- e to learn-and a sequel to be-
 prepared for release in this Intry.
 bal Chords at Work
 rovies are used in court cases, medicine and surgery, in safety kcation. Hollywood's General Ivice Studio was the scene of one Kduction which never will be ad- ktised on the marquees-a six CT starring Dr. Joseph De Lee, Famous obstetrician, in action. h the help of Hollywood techni- fls, Claudette Colbert's husband, Joel Pressman, recently photo phed human vocal chords at k. 4 local nursing school shows cries of special hospital movies part of its course.
 ourts and juries in Los An- es are treated to more movie |wB than are exhibited in the se of justice in any other city. Such evidence almost always
 ruled admissible although, bnsidering the present skill of echnicians in fake studio photography, almost any kind of yidence probablby could be anufactured. , frst recorded instance of a reel hg used in judicial procedure he from Philadelphia-in Mo- hber, 1929. Six minutes of nd pictures were taken of a dit's confession to police IT he had been warned that Ithing he might say might be H against him. So when the dit tried to retract his confess
 the movie was trotted cut. went to prison.
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 ere in Los Angeles, movies have h used in everything from di- He suits to the conviction of Ihken drivers. Most of the di- lke and alienation of affections Hence, filmed by detectives car- Rg 16 nm. amateur cameras, is er shown in court.
 he parties against whom the lence is obtained usually make uick settlement.
 h the strike of some of the iio workers, pickets at the gates taken hundreds of feet of
 of the strike-breakers enter
 the lots. This film, they say,
 be preserved as evidence for
 future ostracism of these ke-breakers in the Hollywood Pr ranks.
 HYou can hear plenty of whis- IArs, too, that the cameras of Communism are busy here, IHinding out anti-capitalist pro- Uganda in the form of class Plruggle features which are ex- tbited to special audiences and
 some of the so-called arty, l4 intimate, theaters of the fArger cities.
 PE least one such picture was He in Hollywood. Called "Mil- Els of Us," it is a dull account fh day in the life of a jobless F[hinist. Where it is exhibited Fl claim is made that the script, Piera work, direction and acting P were contributed by skilled Flywoodsmen working anony- Ptsly. Best refutation of that is
 picture itself, which is pretty