Word: films
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Tickets are now on sale at Leavitt and Peirce's for the first official moving pictures of the war taken by the British Government and showing the work of the American Ambulance Field Service. The film is to be shown at a special benefit performance in the Boston Opera House on Monday, March 12, and 100 seats have been reserved for students of the University. These seats at $1 and $1.50 each will not be retained after Friday of this week. Captain Ian Hay Beith is scheduled to talk at the performance, and half of the gross receipts will...
...light gun oil, such as "3 in 1," etc., will be used on all metal parts of the rifle--cadets will leave a thin film of such oil on their rifles at all times...
...This film has never been displayed in Boston before and there will be only one performance. Captain Ian Hay Beith is scheduled to speak. Half of the gross receipts will go to the American Ambulance Field Service, and the other half will be turned over to the General British War Relief Fund...
...pictures to be exhibited show, besides the work of the American Ambulance Corps, "Kitchener's Great Army," "Jellicoe's Fleet" and the "Battle of the Somme." Taken by the British Government, every inch of the film is guaranteed to be authentic. Close views are given of members of the American Aviation Corps and there is a "close-up" of Norman Prince '08, who died while flying for France. In the pictures of the battle of the Somme the actual fighting has been photographed...
...them and judge their claims to a place among the arts. While on earth Jupiter meets and falls in love with one Vera, and together they elope to the South Sea Islands, unaware that during the entire time they are being "spotted" by the camera man for a film production. To prevent this exposure of his escapades with Vera, Jupiter is finally forced to accept the movies as an art. Thus the movies win recognition on Mt. Olympus and influence Jupiter to remain on earth...