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How Motion
Pictures Aid Navy
Recruiting
By
LOGAN E. RUGGLES, U.S.N.
A SHORT time ago the Navy Department in Washington d e v i s e d a scheme to man a great super-dreadnought by boys from one State — boys from the State of Tennessee.
This great vessel, of .^2.500 tons displacement, is to be commissioned at the Navy Yard, New York. On account of the navy being decidedly shy of men. and also to try out a newborn idea in navy recruiting, the scheme to man the navy's machine was coined.
In order to accomplish this great feat it was necessary to send to Tennessee a special recruiting partv, an advance publicity man and thousands of posters, placards and handbills. It
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Captain Leigh said in his addresses that he was going to have a complete motion picture outfit on his ship. He told the people he was going to have movies made of the boys, and that he was going to send the films back to the towns to let the mothers see their sons as they really were. Above, a snap of the boys prior to the showing of a picture aboard ship, and left, about to go up for the purpose of getting a bird's-eye view
was also considered very essential to send a complete motion picture outfit along with the party. The motion pictures consisted of the launching of the world's greatest warship, the sponsor, the Governor of Tennessee, the Hon. A. H. Roberts, and the different stages of the ship's construction. Armed to the teeth with their literature and motion picture reels, machines and "spare parts," the recruiting party left Xew York on November 25th. They depended greatly on the pictures, for didn't the mm ies show the people jusl what the navy had to offer in the way of a great battleship, and didn't they show the people the actual procedure of the ship's construction? And when we learn that the recruiting party was a success— and it will be a success — we will have to thank the motion pictures for a great majority of the work.
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