Business screen magazine (1944)

are minimized, and time and efforts are conserved. The chart on these pages shows the standard production procedure. The numbered stages arc followed in sequence in the production of both motion pictures and film strips. Thus, the scheduling, supervision, reporting, and approving of each training film is a matter of around-the-chart routine. Whether the film is produced by a commercial studio under Navy contract, or by Navy production units such as the Photographic Science Laboratory, Anacostia. D. C or the Navy Photographic Services Depot. Hollywood, California, the standard procedure is followed. Pr«'liniin;iry to all other work on a Navy training film project is the Production Outline, a detailed document prepared by the Project Supervisor and the Technical Adv'iser. which provides specifications for the proposed film upon which accurate cost proposals for the script preparation may be made: it defines the purpose, scope, proposed content, and film techniques recommended. When completed and approved by both the Bureau of -Aeronautics and the authority requesting the film, the Production Outline is a clearly stated plan for a training film, for a specific audience, to do a specific training job. Then, and only then, is procurement of script writing services undertaken and writing begun. .As the training film project advances, the work is submitted for approval at each stage (See chart), progress is recorded, and the next stage begun. Only through strict adherence to this routine has it been possible to insure quality of product and reasonable promptness in deli\ery of the hundreds of training films regularly in production. Without it there could be no order and no control. Ofoasionally some individual has argued that the problem of preparing his film is "different," that the procedures are an obstacle to rapid production and interfere with creative work. These objections have long since been disproved. The Navy has produced many types of training films, those for instructing Navy men in technical skills, those which teach tactical or operational problems, and those which ''indoctrinate" or "orient" the student in the Navy way of fighting a war. Whether the training problem to be solved is the operation and maintenance of a torpedo tube, the induction of a pilot into the complexities of aerial tactics, or the preparation of a new Navy man for life aboard his first ship, the making of the appropriate training film passes through the same stages of preparation: planning, writing, photography, editing, and acceptance. Only through the coordination of effort established by standardized procedures has the Navy training film program been possible. ''Ili'Kl OiMMipaf ioiiiil Siil'cly Film** Award «»f >aiioiial SalVlv 4'uuii4'ii (iivi'ii .\avv Traiiiiii;;' Film ' I ^HE National Salety Council has -■ given the Navy training film. To Livr in Darkness, the award for the best nontheatrical or educational motion picture produced in 1911 in the field of occupational saletv. This motion picture was one in a series of seven films on the subject of safety produced by the Training Film and Motion Picture Branch of the Photographic Division ol tlic Bureau of .Xeronautics for the Division of .Shore Establishments and Civilian Personnel of the E.\ecutive Office of the Secretary of the Navy. Other films in the series arc Safety in Navy Yards, Safety in Air Stations. Safety in Offices. Safety for Welders, Resfiiratory Prolee tutn and Safety in Ordnance Plants. The films were prepared primarily for use in civilian training programs at Navy shore establishments. They also are being used by manufacturers holding Navy contracts, and will be made available to other firms for purchase of prints through the U. S. Office of Education. Other National Safety Council film awards are made annually in the field of traflSc safety, etc. The award to To Lite in Darkness marks the first time that any film produced for the armed services has bein so honored. Honors for this award are shared by the writer, the producer and by the officers and men of tin Navv who particip.ited in the program A REPORT ON NAVY TRAINING FILMS