The command is forward : selections from addresses on the motion picture industry in war and peace (1944)

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Title:
The command is forward : selections from addresses on the motion picture industry in war and peace
Date:
1944
Publisher:
New York : Richard R. Smith
Volume:
The command is forward : selections from addresses on the motion picture industry in war and peace
Leaf #:
00033
Language:
English
Collection:
Books
Format:
Books
Contributor:
Niles Essanay Silent Film Museum
Sponsor:
Media History Digital Library
Coordinator:
Media History Digital Library
Date Added:
May 01, 2025
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Films Fight for Freedom {From an address delivered at Variety Club Banquet, Oklahoma City, June 9, 1943.) Total war is fought with cameras as well as cannon. Planes drop propaganda as well as bombs. When millions of civilians are in the front lines, morale is as necessary as munitions. The commanding general in Iceland cables that films are as important up there as food! I have quoted the opening paragraph from the annual report of the War Activities Committee — Motion Picture Industry. It emphasizes the importance of the motion picture in supplying war information, in strengthening military and civilian morale, and in providing relaxation for millions of war-weary men, women and children. Motion picture film and smokeless powder both come from the same ingredients — nitric acid, sulphuric acid, methyl alcohol and cotton linters. The War Production Board allocated these critical materials to the manufacture of film because this and all other war agencies of our government have continued to recognize the important service of the motion picture to the United Nations. Let me discuss briefly the various kinds of films enlisted in the fight for freedom. 1. War Information Films. To date (revised to Decem 21