FICTION-FILMS OF THE WAR.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXI, Issue 100, 24 November 1916, Page 8

FICTION-FILMS OF THE WAR.

The cinematograph has been systematically used by Germany to delude both neutrals and her own people. In the "World's Work," Armaiul ftio writes : "At Tormonde, at Pervyse, at Malines, at Louvain, the Trans-Jlhine iihn artists took here a house or there a little group of duellings remaining intact through the catalysnl only by a miracle. Their threatened proprietors are only made to appear at windows and doors as happy and tranquil people, or seated quietly in their gardens, so that these visions of calm peace might teach Brazil, the Argentine, and America that stories of cities sacked and burned were mere inventions of the wicked French. "One film has'even served to establish as clear as daylight that the destruction of the cathedral of Rheims was the wui'i of oui own artillery. A carefully built-up papier inache model is destroyed by the shells and torches of French soldiers." To defeat the sinister campaign of the enemy France has allowed eight operators to traverse the front from Alsace to the North .Sea. Their films are passed by the Ministry of War, and afterwards distributed round the world at cost price. Duplicate copies are carefully preserved and filed amongst the national archives.