Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 278, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 December 1917 — Uncle Sam To Use Movies To Increase Food Production [ARTICLE]

Uncle Sam To Use Movies To Increase Food Production

Washington, D. C., Dec. 10. —Official motion pictures bringing home the vital importance of increased food production will be shown by the United States Department of Agriculture in hundreds of regular motion picture theatres throughout the United States. The first releases, which are to be handled under an agreement with the Universal Film Manufacturing Compa..y through its exchange, will be made early in December. . •* The first film will show activities in the National Forests, which are important sources of timber and water supply and also afford grazing for a large number of cattle and sheep. The second release, which will follow in about two weeks, will show what children through the pig clubs are doing to increase the supply of pork. Other selections from the department’s 40,000 feet of official subjects will make clear various features of food production, the raising of meat, animals and horses, and will* deal with home activities such as poultry raising and the canning and drying of perishable products. The department laboratories are at work on a number of other popular films specially designed to make clear to city as well as rural populations, problems of food production and to show them ways in which they can co-operate effectively to feed the Nation and the allies.