Show t 4 Uy a Here You y Will Find the WITH 1 THE TIlE Interesting Gossip From t the e Announcements of the Salt Film Studios What Studios What Your You Lake Motion Picture Houses P H 0 T 0 P LAYS A AT T Favorites of t the Screen ATe Are ATe J r for lor Today 1 1 Don Doing I MOVING PICTURES TO REPLACE MILITARY MAPS CHARTS CHARTS- Camera Men Afloat and nd in Air Supplant T Topographers Topographers in War Zones By IBy Telegram 5 Special ectal N NT Nga ws NEW YORK Oct 16 Even G.-Even Even the movies have gone to war The value of ot the cinematograph in military tactics tactics tactics tac tac- tics has developed until in these later stages of ot the conflict the machine whose chief chiet objective has been entertainment entertainment entertainment enter enter- has become one of ot the engines of destruction Today In Europe particularly on the western front the camera man has Just Justas as much b business siness with a unit of troops as have have the officers Donald C. C Thompson who has cranked a camera on every front revealed a new phase of ot the war when he described the employment employment employment em em- of the motion picture machine by the staffs in the field as a branch branch- branch I an important branch in brunch in the scouting service The da day clay of ot the military map seems seem to be passing according to Mr Thompson because now the officers at headquarters contemplating a move or preparing to checkmate an advance pore over the net result of ot a camera operators operator's work in that particular section sec see tion and tion-and and the net result is an animated reproduction of ot conditions about that spot I Every foot of ot trench on the western and Italian fronts has been photographed photographed photographed photo photo- graphed and the films are on file at the different divisional headquarters Some of these pictures are taJ taken en in the I course of ot a a. systematic Journeying over the field others are made from air air- graft craft While perhaps no more dangerous dangerous dangerous dan dan- air I than the accepted method of ot personally conducted scouting the I camera men men or squads really feel teel that I theirs is the more hazardous undertaking ing lag for to do their work they are ex exposed exposed ex- ex posed and besides they are not armed for tor underbrush and running fighting I A picture machine weighs eighty I pounds Add a gun or two to the I equipment and the cranker will wUl re resemble resemble re- re a a. Kansas mule muleS re-j re Substitute for the Eye The matter of ot trench defenses and the of the trenches are of course of vital importance Mr Thompson said and officers can tell whether this or that section needs re repair repair repair re- re pair simply by looking at the films Maps may tell where where- the points are and their relative importance and state of ot repair but the eye only can perceive per per- per per-I exact conditions And the motion motion motion mo mo- tion picture camera is a good substitute substitute tute for the eye Nowadays there is one or more camera men with every considerable unit of ot troops and in addition to their scouting work and reporting on conditions conditions conditions con con- they are really the official photographers photographers photographers pho pho- of ot the war When men go forward for an attack or swarm over the trenches for an advance the camera man is Just behind them with witha a soldier assigned to help him carry his paraphernalia And hes he's about the most unfortunate one of the lot Hes He's standing up Is unprotected to a greater degree and worst of all his camera at a distance looks like an elevated machine gun gun gun-at at least it ap appears appears appears ap- ap pears to be anything but a peaceful re recorder recorder recorder re- re corder of ot the bloodshed Hes He's a mark for fop sharpshooters Many camera men have been killed and many more wounded And theres there's been an enormous expense on account of ot the the- machines themselves Many have been abandoned the operators taking flight I have deserted two cameras myself but if it I hadn't done doneso so I wouldn't be bo telling this Mr Thompson has filmed everything everything everything every every- thing in range since early in the war taking pictures that covered everything from troops trains to trench fighting One of ot his pet diversions is photographing from an aeroplane and andon andon andon on one occasion he took a fight be below be- be low him between two French aero aero- I be-I planes and one Prussian in which the Maltese cross flyer was sent to earth Moving Picture Maps A great part of picture scouting is done by aeroplane Mr Thompson said The results there are superior to those accomplished by maps Many is the aircraft that has flown over the enemy's lines and of ot course such in information tn- tn formation as a camera man gains in those flights cant can't be duplicated More I of that was done earlier In the war but there are many aviators still who are daring enough and frisky enough in the air to take a chance on being I brought down Motion pictures have played many important parts in the war Aside from the official nature of ot the films there have been taken many pictures for enlightenment o of 01 the populace of ot the nations at war concerning actual conditions and also to aid in recruit recruit- ing Then of ot importance about equal to that in military tactics the cinema has been used to help medical science The war has developed many surgical surgical surgical cal processes and treatments and the scientific mind of the allies ames particularly particularly arly France has responded to the call for national aid with wonderful strides The work thus accomplished is generally reproduced in animated pictures sometimes for the public Information in information information In- In formation more generally to transplant trans traits plant the methods in the many hospitals hospitals hospitals hospi hospi- and homes that have sprung up to care for the wounded Say for Instance a surgeon in France has developed a new way of ot putting in an artificial Jaw The process process process pro pro- cess of treating the injured man is pic pictured pie pie- and accompanying each move of importance in the operation is the written explanation The pictures and the script are bundled up and sent to Russia for use there if it found ble in hospitals The pictures thus afford a method of transmitting transmUting all kinds of information among the allies aIlles with scarcely a chance for error The camera man Is the most popular popular popular lar man everywhere The soldiers re reI rejoice rejoice re- re I joice when they see him near their particular location To me its it's been one of ot the most human sides of the war war the the way those poor devils who all seemed doomed to deain sooner or later yearn for the slight bit of recognItion recognition recognition that their pictures will yield 1 I suppose many a man has died tiled confident confident conti- conti dent that his sacrifice for his country countr will be visualized Its It's only natural that they should welcome the chronicling chronicling chronicling chron chron- for when they go forward into the front trenches especially they know they have entered oblivion |