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-THE MOVING PICTURE WEEKLY
Special Pershing Animated Weekly
AMMEES! Samees! Vive, Sammees!" France has its poilu, Great Britain its Tommie, and now America has its Sammies. The phrase was born of the enthusiasm with which Major General Pershing's troops were received by the almost frantically jubilant French people as the American transports warped into the quay of a port somewhere in France. Pershing's regulars, as they debarked from one of the most remarkable voyages ever undertaken, understood perfectly this French pronunciation of a name which they instantly understood belonged to them. It added a zest to their landing and a cheerfulness to their workmanlike step as the forces of American regulars marched gaily down the long French quay.
The Universal Film Manufacturing Company has scooped the entire United States releasing a thousandfoot picture of General Pershing's arrival, and the arrival of his troops in France for active service. Strange as it may seem, the negative that the Universal has is the only one so far to be sent over here, and by a series of fortuitous accidents the Universal was able to release it on Saturday only a few hours after it was received. So high an estimate is put on the news value of this first picture of the epoch-making arrival of the invading United States troops on European soil, that the first special Animated Weekly ever released was put out consisting entirely of this sulsject — General Pershing and his troops in France. So great a demand was evinced
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by theatres in New York for this picture, for which special paper was rapidly gotten out, that a number of prints almost approximating a record was printed by the laboratories, and the demand for new prints is still strong.
Another unprecedented fact in connection with this picture is that the arrival of the negative in this country is almost in coincidence with the first cable dispatch announcing the arrival of our troops abroad. So strict has been the censorship, and so general the respect of the American newspapermen for the desire of the goveiTiment to shield future transports from any danger, that nothing at all had crept into the papers. On Saturday a special Animated Weekly on General Pershing's troops was released, only one day behind the cable.
Furthermore, the cable itself \vas so meagre, and the newspaper officewritten desci'iption of the arrival so obvious and unilluminating. that one gets a much more complete impression of the scene from looking at this Animated Weekly than they will from reading all of the morning papers dealing with the subject for the last four days. The Universal exchange in Washington. D. C, was commissioned by the Universal to invite the heads of the governmnet to see this print even before it wes released in New York, and this request was so generally complied with, that almost all of official Washington had a view of General Pershing's safe arrival before the country in general saw it. Service like this occurs only once in a great while.