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Show Soldiers on Pacific Islands See More Pictures Per Week Than They Did as Civilians in U. S. I An average of more than 40 prints of three first-run productions, more than a soldier saw in an average civilian week, are turned over to the .army every week, in addition to I "G.I. Movies," "Screen Magazine." j "Fighting Men," and other informational informa-tional and educational features produced pro-duced and distributed by army service serv-ice forces. "Changes in station, constant con-stant shifting of the tides of battle, jmake it impossible for all soldiers to see every picture at the same time, but they will eventually see them," Maj. Gen. Frederick Osborn, director of morale services, states. On Guadalcanal, for instance, 104 shows were in progress one 'night. When the general was making a tour on Finschhafen, New Guinea, a jeep conveyed the general's party to a unit headquarters where three films were being shown to several thousand soldiers. Entertainment reels from 19 army overseas film exchanges are transported trans-ported by plane, boat, jeep, or hand-carried hand-carried to the camp sites. Mobile special services companies with portable equipment and camera crews tour remote areas playing one-night stands. "Today some soldier in a waterlogged water-logged foxhole, sitting atop a gasoline gaso-line drum to keep his feet dry, is seeing a picture perhaps just premiered pre-miered by you in the plush seats of R'.dio City, New York," General Os-I Os-I ho-n rnmmentM |
