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What Movies Mean to the Marines
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it taught the producer a good many useful points film making, a sojourn in ragua, the lieutenant was placed in charge of the marine corps' national publicity bureau in New York City. Again his thoughts reverted to the possibility of describing the work of a marine through the medium of moving pictures. Some rather lively fighting was going on at the time between United States marines and the revolutionists in Hayti. This suggested the possibility of putting a better climax onto the process of 'The Making of a Marine" than a sham battle. Why not show him in the thick of some real fighting? Headquarters approved the idea, and the producer set to work again. In the office of the publicity bur e a u the officer found a corporal, Percy Webb, who used to be an actor, and a gunnery sergeant, Thomas G. Sterrett, who had been director of theatrical troupes. With marines to do the job themselves and a trained cam
era man at the crank, a new battery went into action, and distinguished itself for a month for gallant and efficient action. "The Peacemakers" is a film with all the earmarks of professionalism. Its big scenes are made aboard a ship bound for a war and upon actual battlefields.
The success of "The Peacemakers" stimulated some of the big film corporations to put marines into further p i c tures. The Edison Company in June released "The Starspangled Banner," a film in which all the parts but the "leads" are taken by marines. The Hearst Pathe Weekly has released a number of scenes of training-camp life taken at Marine Barracks near Charleston, South Carolina. In several other films marines are used in battle scenes. Once they a c com modatingly donned the uniform of the invading army in a "preparedness" film.
When war was
A piece of the marines' film made by a soldier camera man.