Salt Lake Tribune | 1918-09-22 | Page 41 | Utah Soldiers Show Favorably in Films

01 SOLDIERS SHOW FIRM FILMS Youths at Camps Kearny and Lewis Appear in Their Training Work. The film showing' the 145th field artillery ar-tillery (First Utah) and the Utah men at Camp Lewis, at the Paramount-Empress theater, has attracted considerable favorable favor-able comment. The pictures are clear and sharp, of professional quality and full of action and humor, interspersed with well written titles, in feature production style. This film was made under the auspices of the Utah state council of defense as a permanent record of the hij?h personnel person-nel of the men from this state who have dedicated their lives to the call of the nation. Under the direction of F. C. Richmond, chairman of the film committee. U. ir.. Woods and O. C. Hansen of the Schramm-John son kodak kraft, wero sent to Camp Kearny, Cal., to photograph the 145th field artillery, now overseas. Special permit t was obtained from the secretary of war to stae many of the scenes of our boys in action. Colonel William C. Webb detailed an officer and two men to assist in fllminp: this regiment and rendered every aid possible in securing an interesting pictorial pic-torial version of soldier life. Close-up pictures were made of almost every man of the famous artillery contingent, con-tingent, interspersed with a vivid portrayal por-trayal of their intensive training. Pictures Pic-tures were obtained of the art of camouflaging, camou-flaging, gas attacks, the "4-point sevens" in action and many similar scenes for which a special military permit was secured, se-cured, w.itb the proviso that they must be censored by the committee on public information at Washington before being distributed. At Camp Lewis, Wash., scenes of a similar character were enacted for the benefit of the citizens of Utah, who arc obliged to stay at home. Orders were issued by Brigadier-General H. D. Stye. N. A., formerly instructor in-structor in military tactics at the Utah Agricultural college, for all of Utah's drafted men to mobilize on the parade-ground parade-ground of this gig-antic cantonment for the purpose of securing a permanent lifelike life-like record of Utah fair sons who have given their all to tbe great cause. Nearly o000 responded, and. despite the fact that these men were, from various branches of military service and had never drilled together before, a lieutenant lieuten-ant from Boxelder county took r-ommand and marched them in maneuvers before the eye of the movie camera. The camera and laboratory work wns done by Mr. Hansen, who has introduced many novel photographic effects to enhance en-hance the intrest in this film. He was the first camera man to scale tho lofty heights of Mount Timpanopos in search of new thrills for our movie fans. Other productions he has made of local interest are "Bird Island, tho Marvelous Rookery of America." depicting wild bird life in this strange habitat in the middle mid-dle of the great salt sea. "The Trout Fishers." showing Walton's method of catching trout with flies, imitating the rrrtl insects that fall upon our canyon siren ms to tempt the elusive front. "A Pny With Our Soldiers nt Fort Poucrl.'iS." wli'ih shows the Twentieth infantry in action, and a film of the Natural Uridps 'of sj;i n Juan count y, with the adjacent 1 ciii'f dwpllit: ruins. ' 11 is the intention of l Richmond to show these films of Utah's tnx.p- in every town and viilaee of L"tah to aid in puhfiilv .for thr. launching of the fourth Liberty' loan drive before they aro placed in r he perm a nent a rohives of the stale. When the boys come marching home victorious vic-torious there wiil be a hie movie shovr staged in our capitol huiioinc for boys to S(B.R themselves as others saw them, "soldiers "sol-diers in the making."'