In the spring of 1915, almost a year into world war i, american journalists world virulence cinematographer guy reads love chicago bound for berlin, germany. They traveled with the german army to the front lines, in east pressure and poland. They shot 25,000 feet a film, about five and a half hours. They returned to the United States in december of 1915, and in november released a 108 feature film on the firing line with the germans. The film received positive reviews and screened widely in the United States despite the fact that a presented a favorable view of the germans. Up next learn about how the once lost film was this discovered and restore by the labor of congress. Then watch the entire film. With commentary by two scholars who helped reassemble a movie that or become a jigsaw puzzle of fragments. This program is about two hours. My name is cooper graham. At the moment i am retired but i used to work at the library of congress and while i was here, among the fascinating things ive found buried in the vaults, and there is a lot of stuff,. ,. ,. ,. ,. , nobody knew what the contact was. Through contact with cooper, he gave me the magic key and the library of congress, buried in paper from the original copyright filing was a few small images from the original frames which allowed us to document the real content and in bringing in a coauthor, he brought in a lot of missed pieces of film who working with the library of congress encouraged them to recreate. When its george women. Im lee manager for the libra congress. Its been my job for the past 30 something years to take care of the nitrate film collection of the library of congress. What that means is these are the films made from the beginning of cinema on nitrate film stock. The reason that it is different is because nitrate tends to deteriorate and also even more importantly it is highly flammable. So it is very important for us to maintain not only the films but the atmosphere there stored in to give them a long life and keep them from blowing up. I am an enshrined cooper im a preservation specialist in the moving image section. My duties involves ensuring the physical integrity of the collection. Handling and storage standards i mainly concentrate on the safety side. Having many other duties including maintaining circulating fell loan program and, also assignments on special projects whether it is assisting in reconstruction and Research Inter projects. So on the firing line with the germans. Word that film physically come from . What are we still have . It its one of those Amazing Things that never happens from what i have learned. We acquired the film some years ago from the son of one of the original backers of the film. He had found it in his fathers wine cellar. There was some 40 reels of film. And have been sent to the library and been sitting on a shelf and several attempts have been made to try to put the film back together but there was no paperwork. There is no way of putting it together. So it just kind of sat there. The nitrate faults out of dayton ohio add to Patterson Air force base, i thought double where all these reels . What it what the heck is this . Im so glad that we were finally able to put it back together. It is one of the things that should not of survive. You know there was no reason for it to survive. A wine cellar is not an ideal environment to store any type of film, nitrate film or any other typical. And the fact that its survived all these years and probably was damp. Definitely dampen the amount of water damage. How do we get to the point that its sitting in storage to the now its available and we stored for the public to view . I think the library, people in the library had always wanted to see this phone put back together. I know annette coopers always been interested in form a viewpoint for myself just being a film that needed to be put back together. I never actually thought i would get to see. But when the script such as it was was put together by james cooper and presented to us thats when the time came plus the time had come when we were able to do high enough levels of scanning of these film reels that it could be edited together digitally, rather than having to try to make a phone copy and tried it edited that way. There is such a huge volume of material, the cost wouldve been astronomical to make phone prince of all these different pieces. By using a digital, it was much easier for us to put things electronically in their place i say heres a better version we can use this. So without tyndall technology i do not think this project wouldve happened. For us i guess it was about two years altogether . Thats just the physical putting it all together. That doesnt count all the prework. Takes a lot of time an effort to do Something Like. This what is the value in it for the American Public . Why is it worth it from your point of view . I would like to say one of my sort of Guiding Principles and all the years of leading film preservation. First place saw it was on the wall of the air force museum in dayton ohio. And its saying those who do not remember history are doomed to repeat it. So i thought it was important for us to make this stuff available for people to see so that we learn from it. If we do learn from it, but i wanna make sure i do my part so people have the ability to see this other part of history that is not in the books you know. Whether be this film or a film about dairy work, a film about a laundry, or newsreels. Newsreels were so ephemeral, there are lots of interesting stories in the news reels beside the major ones. Just to see what we did, how we dressed, how we talked, how we walked, the car as we. Drove all these different things. So we dont forget. Because our society now is so disposable every part of it. We are getting to the point now it almost seems like people are disposable and its really sad. Want to make sure all that as much as we can carry is still there. I think particularly to the refugee sequences really reinforce this idea of history or the circle of history repeating itself. We are looking at these different scenes of the refugees and going home at night and watching the news and reading the paper with refugees again. Different refugees from different parts of the world but nonetheless, this human effect of political actions that caused the regular populace to endure and figure out and deal with and this is end up repeating itself. Almost 100 years to the day, we were looking at the same scenes we were seeing on the news every night. That was really shocking. This is still bros durham is film. A scene the first segment he had a lot of energy and. It only came about because of his initiative durborough. They asked him to go abroad. There isnt a. This is peterborough i think you can sense a kind of hard charging tension about him this is early guy reese. He was the camera man because durborough was train is a still photographer, a little bewildered but game. Both guys had a cigar habit. He looks affable so here we are on the streets of chicago. Doing a closeup a guess. And this and this really documented his trip to europe. Durborough trip to europe. So how did the project come about . Who funded it, . Dirt burrow was turned on by the san antonio news, a man he was commissioned to moonlight as on as he paid for any of the extra cost and he got some chicago businessmen and convince them to fund it and then one about purchasing cameras and equipment and here is going abroad. This is about the time the lusitania was sunk, so submarines were very much on everybodys mind. And the only line that ran where the dutch ships between new york and holland at the time. Here is the famous stats bear cat. Durborough we bought a stats bear cat. This is a lamborghini of his. Time a wonderful car. One just sold in california think for 595,000 dollars. And unmatched durborough turbos. Personality it was a hot car. I think he realized the film in the car would help him get access to the individuals he wanted to film an interview. As i said he was very good at protecting his persona. He had a definite flamboyance to it. So was world war i a really big news item in newspapers at the time in the in the United States . It was. Obviously the official position of wilson was neutrality. Up we had a tendency since washingtons time to stay out of foreign affairs, at least European Affairs which always seem to be totally mixed up. And there was concern about trying to get involved by several different groups of the citizenry. What are we seeing here . This is ambassador gerard. He turned out to be very pro british. A controversial figure. President wilson did not very much like him. He did a very good job of getting americans out of germany once we started the war. But frankly wilson controls on Foreign Policy investors were only to give him put, i seniors and, to implement whatever was put into play. France max was interesting especially here when the war was over in the kaiser left germany, prince max was the first leader who set up the rhineland republic which a lot of people never forgave him for, but he was a good fellow i think. Why would do borough and a chicago paper cover the war from the german side at this point . In the midwest, there was a lot of pro german sentiment. I wont say everybody in the midwest was pro german but the rollout of germans and scandinavians who were pretending to be on the pro german side. There is a large irish voice in chicago in some of the big cities, milwaukee, and so the feeling in the midwest was very different than it was in the east coast which tended to have more pro allied. And one of the reasons that they got funding was so that germans side of their story could get told because they didnt feel like the New York Times were doing much for them and german propaganda was not very good. By the time of seven months into the war, there was a large number of casualties, blind soldiers, amputees and whatnot, you will see some of that in this film here. Henry had a set up this home for the blind and did a lot of hospital work, she became very famous and she was married to a famous architect. She was originally italian and at lidia we had just at the war on the allied side. But nevertheless, she did work for the german wounded. Here is jane adams. Alice hamilton, in chicago. There she is on the right next to durburough, first one on the faculty of medicine. Three extremely powerful women. We it is funny, as jim said, that shot you just saw is probably the most famous shot that has come out of this reconstruction. So jean adams . Who was she briefly . Jane out pat adams, jane adams ran whole house which was four european immigrants to get health educated and integrated into our society. And she did a large amount of effort of the peace movement, her reputation was so important that she was invited to be the cochair of the peace conference at the women organized. This is visiting data hospital . This is very interesting. This sort of shows the dark side as becoming more and more evident in this period, as i say this summer of 1915. This is not frivolous footage. Interesting weighing, cigarettes became much more prominent in the trenches, i guess, couldnt drink in the trenches so i think smoking became more popular. But i guess premade cigarettes really grew in popularity among the army. Why do you think they decided to film things things . How did that happen . I dont know. Its easy to put durburough down as a frivolous guy, but some of the footage in this film, like this with a soldier died 20 minutes after this picture was made. You have to think that he was very aware of the tragic side of all of this. He wanted to capture the civilian perspective and show it justice he could see in the film lens. There is an interesting little shot, i will get there, but the other thing is it is a godsend that durburough could travel to the front and was stuck in berlin. And he got these incredible shots of berlin and wartime, i think. He has this nice little portrait of a city thats beginning to suffer. And he would not have gotten that if he ate gone swanning off to some battlefield. The correspondence in the beginning would go out to the front, officially they should have gotten permission and they go on their own in a train up to the front. And they connect out there. This is rather famous. This is shot later in the film. This is shot at the workshop of a professor who became very famous for working with prosthetic devices for soldiers. You see this shame shot in a Scientific American and three or four newspapers in the United States. Same guy, same workshop. Evidently, he was very famous. Durburough was a horsemen and you will see a bit of emphasis on the horse activities and opportunities for foam. Did he go into this project with a plan about what would happen with this film and he got back . No, i dont think so. I think you just wanted to record his trip and gave enough good footage so it would be able to be shown in theaters around the u. S. As a profit maker, essentially. But also, i think, to drum up some sympathy for germany which was already unsuccessful largely in its propaganda. But i dont think the syndicate had that is the motive, it was just that there is a Large Population are market for showing the german situation. That is true. That is true, of course. They werent pro german, you can argue about wilson but they were businessmen. They wanted to make money. We durburough wanted to make his name, he wanted to get out in front of the camera. He is in 25 of the film scenes here. The second most seen is the start switches and 10 of the film scenes. I will mention this, the germans like to take your correspondents and cameramen to the prison camps. They also may have visited other once. It was a safe trip, the germans like to do it because they had control over what correspondence saw or what they saw. No one was likely to get hurt. And also give the germans a chance to show that they were treating the prisoners well, getting them enough to eat. Like the shots, there may be an element of parity, but these guys do seem happy enough in some ways. Probably they are very happy to not be in the trenches. And obviously it is a place and time where theyre putting the best foot forward. To be fair, as a neutral he did watch out over the allied prisoner war camps and he did get credit for improving the conditions which were pretty bad later on. Do you know if these camps were close to berlin . One camp was very close to berlin. And it was put there, it was a major Army Training field. It is hard to know if they are trying to the prisoners are trying to make the germans happy but it looks to me like they are. Not unhappy to be warm and dry. You will see surety and later on in warsaw, the film was a new commodity. It is like getting featured, being filmed, it was a novel experience. I think that was the thing that stimulated them, while everybody, to want to get in front of the camera. Maybe it was a way, somebody from the family might see the footage and say, hes all right. Things were still pretty rough in that way. Especially for the russians. They recruited prisoners to help them repair the roads and farms, the ones without the tools were going to the farms which already had tools. The ones with shovels and stuff or fixing the roads. These look like british. You sort of get the impression that there are many journalists going around with them. Was this almost like a media tour in some cases . These trips to prison camps were generally more than one correspond it, they would get a bus or take ten people. It would be a group trip. They controlled them pretty well. You will see in a bit, waiting to go to the front, they are in uniforms. Initially they did not have uniforms, they did not have good control, they arrested many journalists who didnt have her mission and went out on the road. And they caught and roll shot as spies, they decided from then on they would give them official uniform so that they could be recognized and escorted from berlin by an officer. What are we seeing here . The band is leading the soldiers out towards the train station to go to the front. That is the hotel avalon, one of the most Famous Hotels is about a block away. Its right to the left here think. Actually they couldve popped out of their hotel and the couldve shot this right in front of his hotel marquee. These guys are headed east or west, i could not tell you. Anyway. They are coming from the tee garden area so they are heading east. East, okay. At this time in the war, the german army looks happy but what was the situation . They were not thrilled but again, one of the reasons for this film was there was a huge drive in the summer of 1915, starting in may, as a matter of fact these guys may be part of those headed toward the battle front which was designed to check the russian army out of poland. There was awaiting from the south, with austrian and german troops, and then there was a northern weighing which was headed towards warsaw. The so, the germans were very happy with the situation as they envisioned it in the summer. One of the reasons that durburough might have been invited to do this is because they wanted witnesses and they wanted it filmed. I never could quite evidently, this is his footage buttocks extremely privileged. He didnt just search shooting the royal families at 20 paces. How he got this, or got it from someone else, i dont know. I am pretty sure he did get to the castle, yes. I think that they said about so he would be able to film us impressive ceremony. Impressive, indeed. We are seeing, who are we seeing . That is the kaiser. They are talking to this was a review for the kaiser. This was his favorite unit. Indeed, burn already led through the arc de triomphe. Now i did not know that. But who are we seeing here . That is the kaiser, the wife of the kaiser. The daughter, victoria louisa. The hospital we saw was named for her. She was the only daughter of the kaiser, i think he had five sons. Some of the sons were appointed to head of armies, not the top person, and some were relieved later after they did not do too well. The elder son, the one that is in the middle, he was in charge at the army of are done. But he was not the expert. The hotel again, this is where all the correspondents state waiting to get permission to go to the front. Durburough is over in the left with the goggles on. He has some type of fedora hat. Notice they were wearing a uniform with the brown belts . Yes. You mention in your essay about this and speaking german and durburough not speaking german. This part of the trip is actually, durburough is with a bunch of correspondence and got sent east precious. One of the correspondence was the guy on the left in his name was arthur from the new yorker and he spoke fluent german. That is general bernardhenri who was an incredible sort he thought germany wanted to fight everyone. He wanted to fight everyone and that people who did not fight wars that was kind of a controversial leader. Notice the train in the background. Creative use of a very few handful of frames to actually make it a film. Those were stills that they had from the copyright paper that made it look really natural. We i want to mention, this because what these guys are wearing, im saying this because my wife didnt know, and a waif didnt know, these are spiked helmets. And somebody said, i should explain, in this part of the, war germans were distributed in these helmets and it was only 1916 that they were had these helmets. And people think of these is typical journal helmets. The same time the british got their huts, and the british got their huts. And headwinds were so bad before they had sub sort of steel helmet. It is me saying how much the cavalry was the shock troops, whatever in front trees were attacked, you sent them into charging them and breaking them apart and rile them and said them. Back and you still have spares. Its incredible youll see something else. This is the war that started on horses and ended up in tanks and airplanes its incredible. Ellen stein is one of the largest cities in east pressure. It was not damaged much by the russians much during occupation. But the russians were still pretty rough. What happened some of the smaller powers are smaller towns where the russians did do some damage. The russians when there are a lot. There is a slow tracking shot along the supply wagons and you can get a look in the background and see how much wreckage there was. Just imagine trying to supply a massive army with these wagons. They have an infinite number of them. This is east prussia. For people who dont know what cease pressure and the russians invaded there in august very is that correct . It was a part of germany. It was quite for east of most of germany. It is now part of poland since world war ii. The russians were pretty rough here. Maybe no worse than the germans were in belgium. Im not going to get into who is worse. This is another city that really took it. Somebody said there was only one family left in the whole city after the russians got through with it. Countess valvular was kind of their raining nobility and to care or supposed to take care of the area. After their own castles burned by the russians. There is durable. Yeah yeah theres durable yet there is durable. You can you can see some of the destruction. This may be compared with the russian army did in 1945, this is no big deal. Before 1914 or 15 these were powerful images for the germans especially. Its one of the reasons they made Vaughan Hendon burglars savior and world war i, kind of threw the russians out a why they made him almost a religious figure for better or for worst. The battle of tandberg, hindenburg pushed the russians out of east prussia . So the germans set up this tour for the correspondence to take a look and see first how bad the destruction has been. Second, it shows how the east professions were rebuilding and how it had not gotten them down. Look at the pile of rubble. The mentality of the Central European cities that were over the various areas of war. One side germany or the other, squeezed between two big powers. It changes the whole concept of their nationality and how they have to live. To accommodate that. There does seem to be some wanton destruction. No question about. It interesting that the correspondence were sort of on the road. They got a chance to see the great man himself, von hindenburg, the savior of tandberg. This was a very exciting moment. A couple of the correspondence who were progerman suggested von hindenburg looked like a mixture of foxy grandpa and father christmas. The big twinkling old grandfather guy. I dont get that impression. He looks like he has his mind another things. The guy on the left is while ivan is not the famous on a lounge leaving that was germanys idea of how to win. This is linda financially finn who is ahead of the 20th armory core which was stationed in all and shine he was very much involved in the big battles in poland. Here the correspondence are taken to the area of the Missouri Lakes and the battle of park where they took place. It is almost like visiting gettysburg. This is only a year after the battles. Evidently there are people who are going and during an want to see what happened. I think the guy right behind durable is his official watchmen, guardian. You can see a bit of the you can see a bit of the missouri in lake area is really beautiful. You can see the barbed wire emplacement is everywhere. Whether the russians put them up in the first place or the germans i dont know but they look incredibly formidable. Here they have correspondents cars. You can see them on the back of the lake. The stops did not make it on this trip. They were bundled up in six cars and toward the battlefield. Look at the barbed wire. Can you imagine trying to cut through that stuff under machinegun fire . On an open field. I am glad i have not been born yet, i will tell you that. Would this have been german barbed wire . I dont know. Whatever barbed wire they could find. They captured solely gave up some. There are the correspondence again. These are people who were touring the area where von hindenburg saved germany. I think that is the way the germans really did look at it. That is a grave in front there. Looks like theyre trying to figure out what is where. This is a story you can see on the inner title i never. Quite verified up at the was a report in the paper that the german saw russians coming across the lake. It was very thick ice so the russians thought they were sneaking up on the positions and the germans started firing artillery at the positions on the lake. And apparently Something Like 10,000 russians did go into the lake and i. Apparently there a lot of dead russians in that lake. Theres durham with somebody. He had a feeling of how beautiful this areas. Even shot 100 years ago an orthodox chromatic film. Its a Great Holiday place for germans and pulls the Missouri Lakes. Very lovely. Fjords ration, when durable left an april 1st it hadnt been. They started rationing fuel and no private vehicles were allowed without special permission. Incredibly he got it from the authorities. This was another town that was destroyed by the russian army. It is hard to tell who has destroyed it. Probably this part was the russians. Again, it got pretty wet. Pretty wrecked. There is a shot here, this is clearly taken from a car. Driving down the main drag. This is pretty good film for the time and for the road. Would american audiences have seen other world war i films when this was shown later . I dont know. American film, i dont know. I doubt it. As far as newsreels when they saw pat a because a path they had a big distribution thing in new york. There was also a tie in with hearst. So pathway was french pathway was french . There was a company that in germany that did distribute quite a bit of their newsreels. I dont think it was seen very much or very broadly. This guy on the left is earns van wrangle. Hes kind of a rakeish character. He fought in the american spanish american war. It is a soldier of fortune kind of guy and also in the bore war. These are his motorcycle troops. His grandfather was very, very prominent in the liberation working for frederick to great impression. Again, these families of nobility their burrow seems to have run into fairly often at. There they also they didnt see move issued face basques. Wait till you see. The cloud of dust that they have to ride through. Yeah yeah. But again you get the feeling of space. You get this feeling whether its true or not of durable kind of wandering around and seeing who would bump into. It all seems kind of spread, out kind of random. Polands a big place. Thats him shaking hands again . So you say 25 of the film of the he shows up . 25 of the scenes. I can comment and say there is again to somebody have to look hard. Oftentimes he sort of invisible, but he is there. Other times youll see his counsel carl carrying his camera so its obvious. If he has a cameras and thats probably durborough. Its about here that the film stop shooting the correspondence in east pressured starts to zero on on the german armies headed into poland. And was a big Railroad Center for the troops heading east. There is doctor borough. Usually has the still camera in his hand. At the same time he was taking still photos and writing articles as well . He was taking still, photos for the nba while he was filming for his own war phone syndicate. The cameraman is usually read reece. Everything was handcranked. About 19 to 21 frames per second. It had to take a steady hand. This was done pretty well. You mean the cranking up montreal the camera would dictate the speed of the film . Yeah. There was no electricity out there, or electronically timed stuff. It was all regular study. Regulars steady hand. If a bomb goes off next to, i guess they cut that scene out. It is hard. Reese was a good cameramen. I think he did some good framing. It should be a delousing station. There are a few grammatical errors. Describe what is happening here. They are going into get fumigated. Lot of Little Friends visited the soldiers lice apparently the foregoing home or whatever or moving around after a period of time, they visit stations like this and spend a little time. Sort of like us on a path, but i guess there was a special chemical sulfur type of thing. Soldiers said that the lace grew like crazy. And later on, you are going to see even more impressive what was required to supply the calgary horses. And the wagons horses. Here we go. Do you remember this period, this part of the land look at that. It was like a pyramid. A lot of the land had been devastated, forage and fodder wasnt readily available. You had to provide it as the army traveled. But the infill tree usually did use shoe leather. You will notice so many uniforms, there once the germans are wearing our blue. Instead of the usual field gray. In the war, some of the unit still had not been issued field gray. The guy in the white floppy cap is a guy named walter lee roy, he was interesting, he was a correspondent who went with durburough, and he is the brother of a famous theologian. He is with durburough for the rest of the trip into poland, he writes quite a few dispatches. Somewhat controversial, some people thought he might be a spy. I dont know. But he was definitely pro german, which is, and after the u. S. Got into it he then worked very arduously for the americans and was involved in making some great so they are just working their way towards the front . But most of it is behind the front in the effort to get to the fronts and then the battle. And then they make an offensive Movement Towards warsaw. Was poland an independent country at this time . It was pretty much occupied by the russians. Russia pretty much controlled it. In a matter of fact, they did control. And we are not particularly happy under russian rule. As a matter of fact, there were some polish regions that were set up to help the germans get the russians out. There he is with the strange floppy hat. And durburough. Here are these guys digging in a bit. Again, this may be shot during training. This looks like very dressed up uniforms. Again, you get the feeling that everything wouldve stopped did without horses. There was a horse war. You had mentioned the spiked helmet before. How long had the germans been wearing that . And why did they give it up . The spike tell my . Is that something that went back a long time . The british were wearing cloth cap at the beginning of the war, and the germans were wearing these pickle helmets. And they are not metal, they are kind of leather and copper engravings, some of them. They are quite decorative. But they didnt give you any type of protection if you got a bullet in your head. And so all three of the armies decided about the same time that they needed some kind of metal helmet to keep head wounds down. The germans came up with that helmet. The french came up with their helmet, which was also warned by the italians. The british were the famous tin hat which is pretty much what the americans wore once they got into it. So they are presenting this as combat but this was a training ground. Because the camera is up to high. Its up to high. Yes. At there are some shots at the machine gun practice they shot machine guns in practice and they spliced them in in the last part of the assault. It is obvious that they are not actually in combat. At least that scene was not taken in combat. Is that something that would have been frowned upon at this time is fars journalism was concerned, staging scenes are putting clean claiming it is combat. People were lucky to get any film in those days. And it was germans, showing the type of how they approach their combat, their infantry support and whatnot. I do think that its trying to make a narrative story that is interesting. I think if you look at it from that perspective, i think it is okay. Today i am sure unless you document this and say this is how they trained and this is how it was used in combat. Probably not the best. There was pretty frank sensors who took an awful lot of his best stuff. So he kind of had to this red cross footage for instance, there are photographs of the same shots that appear in berlin newspapers in june, which is three months before they headed east. They were used to sniff out the mass of bodies on the battlefield after the assault was over, to find people that were still breathing and get triaging at their red cross to them and hopefully save them. They were not individual soldiers like that. It is hard to imagine that many horses. Theres some scary statistic about how many horses died in world war i, it is millions, i cant remember. I dont know, maybe 500, 000, i dont know. Im pretty sure these were practice maneuvers at the training ground. This is also probably pretty fake, when he has his heaviest he cant stand having all these guys in some fake warfare without him being in it because in a bin it he will pop up to the right. They will resplice it and he will be there. The areas. Same spots. It is hard to get a really good shot of a shell or a rocket firing. When you do get a good one, it tends to get reduced. This shows how primitive things were with airplanes and aircraft. Yes. As well as the aircraft. We are pretty primitive, they really evolved very quickly. Notice the boots. This is probably a training faux. Again, i say that any shot where the camera is looking down at the soldiers is probably fake because the camera would be immediately did. This is interesting though to kind of show you oppression training, these guys are digging shoulder trenches so that you can see that they cant hold rifles while they are digging and voila instead of putting them on the grounds they put them on the backs of their legs so they will stately, which its pretty clever. I think this looks really, dont you . I think this looks real. You will see the hole in his cap at the end. So this film was released in the United States later, how was it received . It was acclaimed. The second showing was in chicago, sponsored by the Chicago Daily news for the first three weeks in support of the subscribe to the film. The movie critic for the tribune, the competitor, praise the film highly. She had panned the chicago tribunes phone that they show. She said a few hundreds marching around. But this one, she really gave it the blue ribbon. Thats what she said. Which is funny because it was a rival newspaper for the daily news, the Chicago Daily news. I think that was a pretty Fair Assessment of her opinion, relative to what ill shed seen of the war. So this foaming is in june of 1950, you wrote that it opened in will walk a on 28th, 1915. He came back and arrived in new york city in september. Late september. 1915. And then on october 19th 15, the Chicago Daily news was announcing that this film was going to be made and it first showed in milwaukee at a newspaper for a week. And then a week later, it started in chicago for three weeks sponsored by the daily news. Later, three weeks by the syndicate and then later by the local theaters on their own financial exposure. Let me just go inherent, this is one place that evidently was not faked. If there is any look at the back, he is kneeling with a clip. You see a pipe, he is loading film in his camera. Thats what i think is doing. Watch the guy there, he just got hit. A sniper. You will see some guys heading out soon as they get their act together, trying to chase him down. I dont think that was staged at all. You will notice that durburough had his head down, so did reese. That has a look of authenticity. There is a lot of mud, a lot of mud. Just to go back to the screenings, with the film had made a profit . Im pretty sure it made a very good profit for the syndicate. It was only the syndicate only went for about two years, while theyre distributing the film and then they dissolved. But it was widely viewed around the country, i found it all over
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