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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 #:
00034
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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22 THE COMMAND IS FORWARD ber 31, 1943) ninety have been distributed and exhibited under the auspices of our Committee. These range in length all the way from one-minute army recruiting trailers released long before Pearl Harbor in the initial stage of our national defense effort to the current seventy-fiveminute feature The Battle of Russia with its dramatic and realistic portrayal of the turning of the tide on the bloody eastern front. Most of these war informational films have been one or two-reel short subjects made either by a war agency or by the motion picture industry for a government department, to share essential facts with our vast screen audience. Each of these films has carried a special tide telling the audience that this subject was made by or for the federal government and was being distributed and exhibited as a public service by the War Activities Committee of the motion picture industry. These films have dealt with such subjects as the production of planes, tanks, ships and food, the conservation of metals, paper, food and fats, the safeguarding of military information, the enlistment of Waves, Wacs, Seabees, ccast guardsmen, aviators and U. S. Cadet Nurses, the prevention of forest fires and sabotage, the sale of bonds and prompt, cheerful payment of war taxes, and with women at war, colleges at war, and The World at War. Reports from far off battle fronts included in these releases were three films in color: The Battle of Midway, At the Front in North Africa and Report from the Aleutians.