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Write for booklet today, no obligation. CHICAGO CORRESPONDENCE SCHOOL OF MUSIC Orchard and Willow Streets, Dept. M, Chicago, Illinois SCREENLAND of approach to his objective. He is always resourceful, and is courageous enough to adventure anywhere after news. That's the type of men who turn our cranks in all parts of the world." He then told me something that may surprise you regarding the strange self-consciousness that possesses even the biggest and most exalted persons of the earth. Cameramen find that great soldiers like Foch, Joffre, Kitchener, Haig, Pershing and Wood, who have commanded thousands upon thousands of men in battle, are completely camera-shy on many occasions, and show their self-consciousness in many ways. They discover too that rulers ask advice on how to appear to the best advantage, and place themselves almost wholly at the mercy of the photographer. There was a time once when The Great frowned upon the camera's invasion of their privacy. But that was before the era of publicity . . . before advisers and observers for The Great realised that favorable propaganda must be employed in order to hold their popular and firm place in public opinion. Nowadays everybody, high and low, is eager to be shot for the news-film because, as Vice-President Dawes remarked at the Pathe birthday party, "The news-film, the newspaper of film literature, has become a necessity in national life, and its accuracy in daily presentation of world news has made it a national institution. All peoples, irrespective of thought or language, find instantaneous expression and common understanding in the news-films." President Coolidge was not so strong for being filmed when he first moved into the White House. And surely he didn't do much smiling for the cameramen in those early days. But, as you've been able to see for yourself, the boys have taught him to smile of late. And here's something to know concerning the President's appearance on the silver screen. If Cal Coolidge were paid for his weekly appearances in the movie news-films at the same wage rate received by Gloria Swanson or Thomas Meighan for their time on the screen, he would be getting more money than either of these highly paid stars! Possibly it seems like a simple business, this photographing of news events all over the world, as you loll back in a comfortable chair and watch a news-film to the tune of appropriate music. Yes, it is a simple business all right! Just about as simple as translating a Chinese book when the only two languages you know are American and Profane. However, the idea of reflecting the news in pictures began simply enough. In 1910, Charles Pathe of Paris recognized the possibilities of presenting the news through the eyes of the motion picture camera. And his organization did so in a very simple way. Within fifteen years this idea originated by Mr. Pathe expanded itself into a news-film organization that has invaded every climate of the earth. Today its branches are operating in all the strategic points of the world, and cameramen are on every spot toiling over every trail that promises news. These branches, assigned staffs, ' and roving cameramen have been welded into a highly synchronized machine whose power plant is the Pathe office in New York where Mr. Cohen directs its world-wide activities. Airplanes are the circulation wagons of a service that gives us the news in pictures. They speed the cameraman to his objective, and speed his film back to the laboratories, again mounting the highways of the air to deliver finished prints to waiting theaters! Gathering the news in pictures prohibits the everyday use of mapped-out campaigns. The biggest news is important information that breaks swiftly and without warning. Consequently Mr. Cohen and his branch editors must ever be on the alert to cover the unexpected. Sometimes uncanny foresight and premonition come into play. It was premonition that sent a Pathe man to Smyrna on Cohen's orders before a Turkish bombardment burned the city to the water's edge. Speaking of the filming of Smyrna in flames, with its terrorized inhabitants leaping into the water to escape fire and heat, suggests the danger, as well as adventure, that cameramen must face and experience in order to get their pictures. When the tide of battle rushed back and forth over northern France like a crimson sea, airplanes often .flew over the trenches, over No Man's Land and the batteries beyond, carrying men whose only weapons were motion picture cameras. It was the same way on the slopes of Mt. Etna when lava boiled over the crater sides and ran in rivulets of death C[M<xry Philbin in "Stella Maris. to the valleys below. Cameramen set up their "magic boxes" and cranked away oblivious of the volcanic menace. Although there are many stories of adventure, romance, tragedy, and high courage to color the history of news-film exploits, I believe that the one of devotion to duty which I heard about L. C. Hutt, a Pathe cameraman, crystallizes the .spirit that inspires men in this service. Hutt, who had never been in an airplane, was sent aloft over Los Angeles one day to register the activities of a dare-devil acrobat on another plane. Shortly afterwards a woman, while driving over a Los Angeles street in an open car, had a human finger drop into her lap from out of the nowhere. She reported the matter to the police, and later was told how Mr. Hutt had lost three fingers that afternoon. Climbing out on a wing of the plane, he had placed his hand too close to the propeller. The cameraman at the time was trying to shoot the scenes from a better angle than that afforded by the cock-pit. He made no mention of his painful injury until he landed and delivered his film to the laboratory. Then he fell in a faint, the camouflaging handkerchief falling from his hand! From a medium of mere entertainment the news-film has become an agent that carries the incontrovertible truth from and to every corner of the world. For it presents facts with unimpeachable integrity and strict neutrality. To Charles Pathe, the founder of the Pathe Journal which is today the Pathe News, belongs the credit of having pioneered the news into, pictures, and it is Screenland's honor to congratulate him, and those who have emulated his inspiration, on the fifteenth anniversary of Pathe News.