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PRODUCTION PLANNING FOR NAVY TRAINING FILMS* RICHARD B. LEWIS** Summary. — Navy training film production procedures have been developed through nearly 2 years of production experience in the special problems of making films for the Navy. Procedures are designed to permit full use of commercial, industrial, and Navy film production facilities, and, at the same time, to insure full Navy control of film content, presentation, and security. The production of a successful Navy training film requires close cooperation among the Navy activities requesting films, the Training Film Branch, and the film producer. Coordination of effort is established and maintained by means of a schedule of pro- duction which provides all contributors with a series of definite checking points. As each check point is reached, all persons concerned review progress and approve or disapprove plans for subsequent action. The established procedure for production reduces the time and cost of production, clarifies thinking in terms of the training purpose of the film, and assigns specific responsibility for each stage of film develop- ment. Only when these aims are accomplished can a training film meet the Navy standard of excellence. The Navy has had nearly 2 years of concentrated production experience in making training films. During this period, production procedure has been evolved and standardized. Production pro- cedure for Navy training films has been determined, first, by the nature and purpose of training films, second, by the nature of the Navy and its special training problems and, third, by the process through which any film is manufactured and brought to the screen. First, above all, the purpose of a training film is different from the purpose of an entertainment film: the objective of a training film is not to show an imagined event in the most dramatic way possible, but the objective is to show the most effective way to do some specific job, whether it be checking a plane before flight, or taking a beach- head under fire. Or the objective may be to teach a principle or a concept that will be remembered, even in the heat of battle. Thousands of new men have had to learn the ways of the Navy * Presented Oct. 21, 1943, at the Technical Conference in Hollywood. ** Lieutenant, USNR, Senior. Project Officer, Training Film Branch, Bureau of Aeronautics, Washington, D. C. 78