“Mollie of Pine Grove Vat,” the Government’s latest motion picture thriller, is about to start southward on a tour of regions in many of which motion pictures never have been seen. Singed for use as a preliminary weapon in combatting the cattle fever tick in the south, the film presents a well plotted human interest story showing the misguided opposition often encountered by Government and State agents in freeing the south of ticks, and the good results that follow eradication of the pest.
It will go out in a motion picture truck of the Department of Agriculture’s bureau of animal industry for nightly stands in the tick-infested territory and also will be circulated through the film distribution system through which the department is educating the public.
The pictures were made by Government experts in and near Washington, North Carolina, and show many stirring scenes culminating in the dynamiting of a cattle-tick dipping vat and the capture of the dynamites by Mollie Sawyer, the heroine of the story. Better times come to the community with the eradication of the tick, prosperous farms are shown, purebred cattle are grown and sold, and the new “Mollie Sawyer Community House” is named for the heroine of Pine Grove Vat.
From the front page of The Daily Advance, Elizabeth City, N.C., Saturday, March 3, 1923
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