Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 14, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 January 1918 — Airplanes Take Movies of Foe Along Battle Fronts [ARTICLE]

Airplanes Take Movies of Foe Along Battle Fronts

American pre-emlnency In the movies has made Itself felt at the front, where United States airplanes equipped with motion picture cameras clicking constantly as the machine whirrs over German positions are rapidly coming into use, writes a correspondent. When the war started both allied and German airmen speedily saw the advantage of photographs Of the enemy’s defenses, and pocket kodaks came into use. Next the machine carrying a larger camera and defended by a battle plane was brought forth. The camera grew larger and larger' and the Italians finally produced a machine which had a large aperture in the bottom, through which a camera took pictures in rgpld succession. It remained for the Americans, however, to tlace a complete motion picture machine in this aperture and to take thousands of feet of film of long lines of Prussian fortifications, trenches and troop movements.