Salt Lake Telegram | 1928-07-15 | Page 19 | Motion Picture Ranks near Top of Great Industries

Motion Picture Ranks Near ear Top o o oread of Great read Industries Films Sellin Selling America to Itself Says Will Wili Hays Serving consumers each Week empl employing ying more men than Ford and Generl Gener Motors combined combined com com- and representing Investment e eding the motion picture business now ranks near the thet t c of AmerIcas AmerIca's great Industries Will H. H Hays president of the Motion Motion Mo- Mo tion PIcture Producers and Distributors Distributors of America Amelca Inc told his board ot of directors In their annual meeting In New York More than miles of at film fUm a aday aday day pass through American film exchanges alone he added and declared declared de- de that all business Is served by this flow to the screens ot of the nation Motion pictures are selling America told to itself Mr Hays his directors Through motion pictures pictures pic- pic tures We are bettering living conditions conditions condi- condi everywhere The girl In Sullivan Sullivan Sul- Sul livan Ind sees the coming styles three months In advance and she meets them The head ot of the house sees stes a new kind of suit In the movies He buys one Perhaps the whole family get a a. new Idea for tor redecorating re- re decorating and refurnishing the par par- and lor-and down to the dealers they I go There are no more out of date I towns The fathers and mothers mothers' who come to New York from any small are no different I in fir dress from rom New Yorkers and no different in knowledge or of world af- af faIrs Mr Hays Bays credits credits' the growth of th the Ir industry to the constant efforts to Improve stories dIrection and n n lg g and nd to the fact that a system Ss S's tem ot of arbitration practiced throughout the country has virtu- virtu eliminated lawsuits between producer er and exhibitor More than deliveries of of tUrn film are made each year ear In the United States be pointed o 0 in fulfillment fulfill fulfill- ment of written n a Instead of a a. foreign Invasion Mr Hays said sald the large market for American motion pictures Is rather a a. matter ot of foreign invitation The people ot of the world want them he added despite the activities ac- ac of foreign governments to lessen the effectiveness of the American film Industry by practically practicallY callY indigenous film production