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Show OFFICIAL WAR FILMS ARE SHOWN LOCALLY Specimen Keels Prepared by Committee on Public Information Viewed at Paramount-Empress. Specimen reels of the official moving pictures, prepared and distributed by the committee on public information, were projected at the Paramount-Empress theater the-ater yesterday morning before Charles W Yv ateon, manager of distribution: Fred C. Richmond, who Saturday was made director direc-tor of the bureau of motion pictures of ihe Utah state council of defense, and ;eorge B. Carpenter, manager of the theater, who offered his house for the exhibition. The reels, which Mr. Watson Wat-son is taking with him on his tour of tne country, are part of the government's propaganda during the war. F'ilms yesterday showed the work in the cantonments and gas and liquid fire as weapons. The films in conception and execution were pronounced excellent. A wide, range is covered by the products of the dlvlbion of films, new subjects i"-ing released weekly. Mr. Richmond will prepare this week for the distribution of the first consignment consign-ment from Washington over Utah. The consignment will arrive February 4 and will he shown through the state council of defense. One of tho films expected Is "The Immigrant," In seven reels. It depicts de-picts the life of a German under the Irksome Irk-some restrictions of autocracy and his existence ex-istence in the free democraz-y of America-A America-A love story Interwoven in the production produc-tion gives the necessary "heart interest." The work of the division It' expected to be the most office clous means of combatting ihe more subtle forms of German prop-it prop-it ga n d a . |