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ing of men throughout the States. The course was submitted to the government and after trying it out in six stations it was authorized to be used in camps. At the time immediately following mobilization there was a shortage of officers and this course was of great help as a quick medium for training the men. These reels explained the construction and use of machine guns, the operation of hand grenades, how to read military maps and the functions of all ordnance pieces used in the war, and there were special reels devoted to aviation. Since the war these films have been used in many Army automobile training stations.
In addition to animated cartooning, industrial and educational filming, he is specializing in adventure and sporting pictures. It was in November and December of this year that he organized an expedition to explore and film the region around the Colorado River. In speaking of this trip Mr. Bray remarked that the vast and unexplored region of the
Colorado Canyons are less known than the wilds of Africa or Asia.
The river crew of the expedition was lost for a period of three weeks and the United States Government sent an aeroplane to locate them. When they were exploring the Colorado River, for the first three hundred miles there were no connections whatsoever with the outside world. The only means of communication in their possession was valuable radio equipment which had been loaned by the Government. The portable radios were carried by the boats and the central equipment was put up on the Shenemo Altar in the painted desert of Arizona. Once started on the journey there was no possible turning back, because of the sheer canyon walls and the speed of the water. It was necessary to run more than three hundred dangerous rapids where any accidents would be fatal, but, though there were many escapes and upsets, there were no casualties. This is a remarkable record. All
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previous expeditions through the canyon have ended disastrously and with heavy toll of human life.
The picture taken by the Bray expedition is said to contain some of the most unusual and thrilling scenes ever filmed. It is now being produced and will be released early in the fall.
During the past fifteen years, Mr. Bray stated, his studios have built up one of the most extensive film libraries in the country of films devoted entirely to non-theatrical use. This catalogue includes films for both entertainment and instructional purposes.
When asked for his opinion regarding the future of non-theatrical pictures Mr. Bray said, "The future of 16mm. is going to broaden the non-theatrical field. I think that it will be bigger than the theatrical field. The size of the film makes it practicable and greatly reduces the cost. It is only a matter of time when the use of films will be as extensive as that of automobiles. Moving pictures now are the most vital things in every day life."
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