WAR FILMS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LII, Issue 16026, 18 September 1915, Page 2 (Supplement)

WAR FILMS.

FRENCH GOVERNMENT SCHEME. The French Government has instituted an interesting innovation in connection with the chronicling of the present war. The Ministers of War and of Foreign Affairs have jointly set up two services, one of cinematography and another of photography,, these will be attached to the troops in tho field. The cinematograph 1 work has been entrusted to the French Cinematograph Union, and mobilised operators belonging to the four principal French picture companies will take films of military operations within sound of the guns. In order that these films should circulate as widely as possible at home and abroad the French Government has stipulated that the sale or lease of these films, whether in France or in foreign countries, sTiould be effected at the lowest possible prices. /The French firms concerned will receive from time to time from the Government such information as will enable them to place their films abroad in a mamler which will secure for them the greatest possible publicity. The photographic service has been drawn up on similar lines, and once it has been organised it will be possible to supply to the press, both in France and abroad, large numbers of photographs taken actually at the front, or withip the annjt zone.