Medford mail tribune. (Medford, Or.) 1909-1989, January 11, 1945, Image 10

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Newspaper Page TextTEH MEDFORB MAIL TRIBUNE Thursday. Jan. 11. 194S TELLS $22,000,000 In bonds the great est record of any single industry. All The Time in MUD IS TERRIFIC Yo:motKcrTlwlvesrand iweethcira ." ' doing their part in fie war j To help "assure the victory our men are fighting for, We pledge again in '45, for, this,.your Penney store, The service and the value you expect of us and more! ROTARY CLUB OF T DEPEND ON El BENNEYiS ! The average weekly attend ance at theaters in the United State If 83 million people, Eino Hemmila, manager of the George A. Hunt Theaters, told the Med ford Rotary club Tuesday In an address at the Hotel Medford luncheon meeting. Hemmila told of the scope-of the billion dollar cinema. Industry, with its 18,000 theaters, nearly 12,000,000 seats and staggering payrolls. The moving picture business actually had Its birth 87 years ago, when Leland Stanford, Cali fornia's famous sportsman and railway magnate, assigned a photographer to set up a row of cameras to photograph a racing horse in action. William Friese Greene's invention of taking pic tures on celluloid in England in 1880, and Thomas Edison's klne toscope of 1891 have a prom inent place in the early develop ment of the industry. Early Growth Told - In reviewing the early history of the rapid growth of the mo tion picture business, Hemmila recalled, the early Vltaphone sound-on-dise method of making sound pictures, followed by Fox Movietone's sound-on-film meth od, which was generally accept-1 ed by the industry in 1929. Activities of the so-called "major" producers comprising ' . the eight largest companies, and the many "independent" produc ers were outlined. Hollywood companies alone have an in vested capital of $128,500,000 in studios, employ 30,000 people, . have a payroll of 187,000,000, and 1B43 production costs amounting to more than a quar ter million dollars. . The second major phase of the motion picture industry covers the worldwide distribution W the pictures turned out by pro ducing companies. Since the birth of the "movies" to Jan. 1, 1844, nearly 46,000 pictures and short subjects were distributed. The 11 distributors In the U. S. employ 14,000 people and main tain exchange centers in major cities. These exchanges handle 27,000 miles of film footage daily, enough each day to more than encircle the eath. Oregon's 2S0 theaters are served by such an exchange in Portland. Pay Huge Tax , Film exhibitors, whose gross business annually exceeds Jl,- 500,000,000, will pay admission taxes estimated at nearly $375,- 000,000 this year, Hemmila told Rotarians. The average length of feature pictures is approximate ly 8,000 feet and consumes 88 running minutes. Sixty-five per cent ol the nation's theaters now double Bills. ; Problems of exhibitor In buy' lng films and the Increasing cost of the product of the industry were cited by Mr. Hemmila, and the procedure of renting films from distributors was outlined Restricted output of films has complicated the task of buying lor independent exhibitors. The contribution of the war activities committee of the mo tion picture industry to the gen eral war effort was pointed to with pride by Mr. Memmtla. More than 22,000 18 mm. prints of current features and short subjects have been distributed to the fighting forces throughout the world without cost. In co-operation with the office of war information 128 different short subjects have been re leased and shown throughout the nation. The industry's record for co-operation in metal, paper and tin drives has been outstanding, collections totaling more than $23,000,000 have been taken for worthy war activities and In various war bond campaigns the theaters have sold more than Writing "that good old sticky mud at home is like pavement compared to this," Sgt. Gene W. Tedrick commented in a recent letter on battle conditions in the European theater. "Things are still the same over here," he wrote. "Rain, cold and mud. Believe me, the mud is terrific. That good old sticky mud at home is like pavement compared to this. I'll sure be glad when summer comes again, even though it means' the Heine's planes will be in the air again. But on the other hand, our planes will be there, too. "Well maybe someday this mess will be over and there will be happiness on this old world of ours again. I've seen enough death and bloodshed to last me three lifetimes. Its a pretty sad mess, if you ask me. 'One doesn't realize what its all about until you see dead men lying all over the ground and smell the smell of a battlefield. If some of the people who are holding up production and strik ing could smell this stencn oi death for one hour and go back to work, we would have enough material to end this war very shortly. I've been smelling and seeing it for six months now and a lot of Joes have for a lot long er. They would not slow down production or ask for more pay, if they were home." Sgt. Tedrick closed by writ ing that "it finally dawns on me what a beautiful country we have and what a perfect setup for a government. I hope some day to be able to come back to it all." Sgt. Tedrick, recently promoted to technical sergeant, is the son of Mr. and Mrs. C. C. Tedrick of route 4. A news release from the Eur opean theater of operations re ceived today states that Sgt. Tedrick has been awarded the Combat . Infantryman's badge for exemplary conduct in ac tion against the enemy." YMCA Camera Club Slates Meeting To Discuss Activities A meeting of the Y. M. C. A Camera club will be held at the "Y," located upstairs in the Ma. sonic building, Friday night be ginning at 7:30 o'clock. Main ac tivity of the club is construction of a darkroom which will In dude facilities for developing printing and enlarging various types ol mm. Monthly contests are planned with prize-winning prints to be displayed at the Y. M. C. A. The club's darkroom Is now being equipped with basic equip ment where members will be able to learn the fundamentals of photographic work. If sufficient film can be se cured in face of the shortage a small studio will be set up for use in indoor photography. New members who are inter ested in photography are urged to attend Friday's meeting. P.-T. A. Activities Roosevelt P.T. A, Roosevelt Parent-Teacher as sociation will , meet Friday of this week In room 11 of the school at 2:30 p. m. 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