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meeting is there. Last night you saw one in Vienna. You have been to Poland and have seen the Pope. Whatever has happened in the world in the last almost 100 years is up there. It is on film. It is visual. It is powerful.
However the world is today, if it is lawless, or if it is wicked, or if it is good or if it is beautiful — film is more than any other thing responsible for that.
It was silent film that the world could understand with music. That was the universal language. We were told this as children when we went into film, not to make fun of this. We were taking the first steps in the universal language predicted in the Bible. Eventually it could bring about the millennium.
I grew up with that. I still believe it, as I see it around the world. All the film cathedrals in every country of the world showed this with 100-piece orchestras. That was a power. We in film must take the responsibility. I hope we will from now on. Our past film is an American invention. It goes beyond any other invention of this century because it is the only one that can get to the minds and hearts of mankind.
Mr. Preyer. I wish you had been here early enough to have seen the clippings of some newsreels which were shown this morning. There was a shot of Bess Truman attempting to break a bottle of champagne on the nose of a new aircraft.
She hit it from the right and from the left six or seven times. Then the military man assisting her tried to break it. He could not break it.
There is no way that that picture could have been described in words. It is a perfect example of what you are saying about the power of the visual.
Do you have any rough idea — and perhaps Mr. Stevens does as Avell — as to just how many of your films have been lost in terms of numbers ?
Ms. GiSH. I made 100 films. I never owned one of them. I was not a businesswoman. I wanted to work with the finest people. I had a life of people and talent rather than money.
I do not own my films, but I can tell you about Charlie Chaplin's films. He has them. He owned them. They are all in rooms under his great house in Vevey, Switzerland.
These rooms have a temperature the same all year round. Some are one and some are another, but it is all scientifically done. I would think that is the way to preserve our newsreels. They are the important things.
You have the Treaty of Versailles in the First World War and the Second World War and the others.
We liave had four wars in my century. I do not think one of them really was our war. We had a war that we recorded in "The Birth of a Nation" and other films. That was for us and the belief that we had in our country.
We cannot tell when we will have another, but if we do, then we can look at the record leading up to these wars and the effect of them.
The First World War began, I guess, the decline of the British Empire. The Second concliided that.
It is powerful history. We should preserve the living record of it.
I know it takes money. The first time I ever heard the words "film