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APC CREW shooting scene on Army Pictorial Center sound stage, using techniques, lighting and equipment comparable to that found on Hollywood sound stages. Here may be seen the large painted backdrop backing up greenery of simulated exterior, all adequately lit for full day-time effect by overhead lighting units, some of which were constructed by APC's electrical department.
JOE IIPKOWITZ, left. Chief of APC Camera Branch, and Charles Hemingway, of APC’s Special Effects Branch, inspect Mitchell Camera used in filming special effects. (U.S. Army Photo.)
When The Army Has Shooting To Do ... .
... it ail begins at the Army Pictorial Center in Long Island, New York, where complete major studio facilities enable staff of civilian and Army-trained cinematographers and technicians to produce motion pictures of high professional quality.
ly/ToTiON pictures were an im¬ portant training aid in pre¬ paring the United States for World War II and the subsequent Korean conflict. Through the use of Army training films, soldiers were given instruction quickly, cheaply and with a uniform standard of excel¬ lence in all military subjects from weapons to battlefield survival.
Advances in the technology of warfare, coupled with the advent of nuclear weapons, require to¬ day’s soldier to be able to absorb greater technical knowledge about more complex machines and weap¬ ons in a shorter time than ever be
By GEORGE J. MITCHELL
Lieut. Colonel, U.S. Army, Retired.
fore. Hence, the training film and its more recent companion, tele¬ vision, is playing an increasingly important role as one of the Army’s most effective training aids in this atomic age.
The Signal Corps is charged with the responsibility of all mo¬ tion picture production. Its major operating arm for actual produc¬ tion of films is the Army Pictorial Center — commonly known as APC — which occupies five large build¬ ings covering nearly four city blocks in Long Island City, New York and includes the former Paramount eastern studios.
Over 1,000 military and Civil Service employees, skilled in all phases of motion picture and tele¬ vision production, are employed at the Center, making it one of the busiest non-theatrical film studios anywhere in the world. The stu¬ dio’s personnel — men and women — comprise many different talents and crafts, including producers, directors, writers, cinematogra¬ phers, carpenters, grips, film edi¬ tors, sound experts, animators, set designers, costumers, make-up ex¬ perts and property masters. The motion pictures, video tapes and TV recordings produced by these
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AMERICAN CINEMATOGRAPHER. JUNE, 1963