Show THE STORY OF COAL the united states bureau of mines washington D C is conducting a nationwide motion picture educational campaign to make the american people better acquainted quain ted with one of this count rys leading industries coal mining bureau representatives are now exhibiting in various parts of the country a motion picture entitled the story of coal which is considered the most remarkable coal mining film ever produced these pictures are being shown in schools colleges churches etc the bureau men accompany the pictures with lectures in order that audiences other than those which the bureau representatives visit may see the pictures the bureau has arranged so that this film will be distributed tri buted generally to churches schools or lodges which have the equipment for showing movies the film manufacturing fac turing company of chicago is one of the general distributors of the bureaus f film these pictures are so remarkable that an audience viewing them will gain practically as clear an idea of how coal is mined as though the trip through the mines had been made in person instead of via the picture screen thus school children living perhaps hundreds of miles from a coal mine can step aboard the celluloid magic carpet and see with their own eyes just where the coal comes from and how it is taken out the bureau expects that as a s a mesut of this film educational campaign hundreds of thousands of americans who otherwise might never glimpse the interior of a coal mine will have that privilege |