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TV Training at
Fort Monmouth
Army Signal School's TV Division trains its own trainers lo provide instruction for 19,000 soldiercommunicators annually
Twenty-one years ago this month the U. S. Army Signal Center and Schciol at Fort Monnimith, N.J. purchased a one-camera television chain to investigate the possihihiy of teaching via the TV medium. In September of 1951, regular classes were inaugurated and out of 23()0 hours of instmction in F.U-mvnis oj Radio that year, 100 were taught by television instruction.
This small but pioneering beginning has grown lo such an extent that Fort Monmouth now has one of the largest and most active instructional television
systems in the world. During this time, over 21,000 progr.ims have been prepared by the Signal (enter's closedcircuit eilucational TV station, and the station is now "on-lhe-air" 10,482 hour> a year bringing instruction lo some 1'>,(M10 military trainees of the U.S. and allied forces who pass through fmnually.
"Oin motivation at Fort Monmouth is lo proiluce the best trained soldicrcomnninicalors in the world." says It. C ol. Anihony J. (\ Vinhal. chief of the TV division. "And educational television is playing a major p.irt in
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achieving this goal. We approach problem ol instruction with the bi idea that it need never be dull uninteresting. To be completely formative, TV must be d\namic visually exciting. Visual invoKeni plays a very important part in gi learning."
Fort Monmouth's TV di\ isiorl staffed by a small cadre of permar officers and civilians who direct 4(1 enlisii'd militar\ personnel actui operating the station. By Arm\ n lalion ihc output is cntirelv on do; circuit wiihm the post to some classrooms and conference rooms well as company dayrooms. rec tional areas, three theatres esjuip with large-screen TV projectors, the nearby Patterson Army Hos|
Twent\-ihree channels are cur used to transmit Irainmg films tapes to the various classnvims. iginating n-aierials is maintained l^ij,,. 16mm film, which can be sent on nine TV film chains, or as inch tape. As an example, on \ day, March 6. 100 programs \ broadcast: M of them were If lilm originations, 21 were on I 14 were kinescopes of tape, .iiul piogram of news originatei.1 in siuilio li\e.
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