Boy Scouts of America in Camp at Silver Bay, Lake George, N.Y. (1910)
The Boy Scouts movement was started in England by Lieut. General Sir Robert S.S. Baden-Powell, K.C.B., where it met with immediate response and is being developed in this country through the study of woodcraft, as preached by Ernest Thompson Seton. The organization, founded on the broadest lines, is open to any boy of twelve or over. It need not necessarily be a separate organization. Any club of boys can add the Scouts' Organization to their present one by the application of the proper forms and methods. It is graded from the Chief Scout down through a number of officers to the lowest degree, which is called "tenderfoot" and which comprises the newest boys before they have learned enough to pass the first test and become Second Class Scouts. The main ideas are to encourage nature study, to be always honorable and as the Scout Law has it, "To be prepared, which means you are always to be in a state of readiness in mind and body to do your duty." From the above it will be seen what as a nation we may expect if our growing boys go through such experiences. The movement is democratic in the largest sense. In our film, which was taken at Lake George and shows scenes of unusual beauty, we see the camp of boys going through their occupations and recreations of the day, rising, taking their morning dip, saluting the flag, the morning council and various sports and feats of woodcraft. We are shown at the end of the film the two gentlemen who are responsible for the movement in America. Ernest Thompson Seton and Dan Beard. In taking the picture we operated directly with the main organization in New York City and are showing it with their full approval.
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