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Show Organization Plans 1,000 Movie Circuits for Farmers By WALTER A. SHEAD WNU Staff Correspondent. WASHINGTON, D. C Under sponsorship of the Foundation Founda-tion for American Agriculture, from which it received a substantial sub-stantial grant of money, the Farm Film Foundation has been incorporated here under the presidency of Walter D. Fuller, president of the Curtis Publishing company. The newly organized film foun-3 dation has a major objective of creating a minimum of 1,000 16-mm. sound xnoving picture circuits throughout rural America; maintenance mainte-nance of a national film library from which any responsible group can secure desirable pictures, and the setting up of an advisory committee commit-tee on farm film production which will be available to any acceptable organization desiring to produce and circulate pictures through the foundation foun-dation facilities. The creation of this film foundation founda-tion was among the announced objectives ob-jectives of the Foundation for American Amer-ican Agriculture upon its organization organiza-tion several months ago. Other officers offi-cers of the film foundation include Paul Armstrong, general manager, California Fruit Growers Exchange; Herbert Voorhees, director American Ameri-can Farm Bureau federation; Ken Geyer, executive committee, National Na-tional Co-operative Milk Producers Produc-ers association, Hartford, Conn.; E. A. Eckert, chairman, executive committee, National Grange, Monmouth, Mon-mouth, 111., vice president; J. Cameron Cam-eron Thomson, president, Northwest North-west Bancorporation, Minneapolis, treasurer; and Earl W. Benjamin, eastern director, Washington Co-operative Farm association, Seattle. Leaders of major farm groups and key industrial figures are named to a board of trustees and a national na-tional advisory board composed of presidents of State Farm bureaus, Masters of Granges and managers and officers of Co-operatives. |