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NOVEMBER, 1911.
MOTOGRAPHY
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Pictures to Rescue Indians
Determined to protect what remains of the race of American Indians from rapid extinction by disease, which now threatens them, the Indian office has decided to pursue a vigorous policy in improving hygienic conditions among the wards of the nation.
Commissioner of Indian Affairs Valentine declared today that the application of the modern methods to present conditions of Indian life was vital to the Indians' progress and to the usefulness of the educational, industrial and other activities in which the Government was engaged on their behalf.
Among the means which the Indian Office already has inaugurated in part and which it will push with vigor in its efforts to preserve the Indian from being entirely obliterated by tuberculosis, trachoma and other infectious diseases which are attacking them, are moving picture shows revealing to them proper and sanitary methods of living, house-to-house canvasses by physicians, open-air sleeping at the Indian schools and sanitariums.
The moving picture scheme is to give them by comparative method pictures of the wrong way of living, followed by photographs showing the correct way. Dr. Ferdinand Schoemaker will have charge of this work and will travel from reservation to reservation, giving his illustrated talks.
Reports show that the death rate among the Indians is two and a half times as great as among the
white race, and that the average mortality from tuberculosis is 256 per cent higher for Indians than for whites. Hence the Indian Bureau's determination to better these conditions.
Auto Theaters in France '
In France they have the automobile theater, a traveling caravan of showmen and moving pictures, which is making its way through the various departments and, according to report, making money. It consists of three De Dion trucks, with attendants. The principal entertainment is the reproduction of motion pictures, and the enterprising proprietor "makes hay" by showing in one town or city the scenes taken while traveling from the point at which the show was previously given. The show is appropriately called the "chariot of Thespis."
One truck is fitted up as a living and sleeping room by the proprietor and his assistants, the second is used for the housing of the machines, and the third carries the tents. Of the latter there are two, one accommodating 500 and the second 1,000 persons, their use depending on the population of the town at which a stop is made. When a show is to be given the tent and the machines are set up and the motors of one of the trucks is used to furnish power for the motion picture apparatus. It is all simple and profitable; the only wonder is that some American entertainer has not utilized the same facilities.
A scene from Selig's "The Convert of San Clemente." Written and p reduced by Hobart Bosworth. Father Baltasar, trying to convert the Channel Island savages, is badly wounded and his only companion, Father Jaime, leaves him for dead and escapes. Baltasar's life is saved by an Indian maiden. She comes to love him and cannot understand his pri estly vows. He is saved from temptation by a vision and finally rescued from the island.