Agfa motion picture topics (Apr 1937-June 1940)

DC-5 Photographed by Lawrence Kronquist Aviation Camera -Artist By William Stull, A.S.C. '"pHE most dramatic newspicture subject in America today is undoubtedly the country's booming aviation industry. At the same time, it is without doubt one of the most maddeningly difficult of modern newspicture subjects — not so much because of the phototechnical problems involved in picturing aircraft in the air and in the factory, but because in most of our leading aircraft plants, with thousands of highly secret planes a-building for our own government and for warring foreign governments as well, the greatest of care must be exercised to avoid the publication of pictures that might reveal secret features of design or “hush-hush” armaments. In spite of this — or maybe partly because of it — editors everywhere clamor for pictures and still more pictures of any sort, but especially for pictures that combine the dramatic and pictorial with the newsworthy. Satisfying this demand without at the same time running afoul of three or four sets of strict military censorships is a major headache to officials in most of our leading aircraft plants. At the huge Douglas factory in Santa Monica — the largest in the 17