Journal of the Society of Motion Picture Engineers (1930-1949)

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80 R. B. LEWIS Vol 42, No. 2 how he is to be made into a flier, just as his plane, according to plan, is being made ready for him to fly. In another, Proceed and Report, the new pilot is shown how to make that difficult transition from life at a training station to the new and different world aboard his first ship. Navy training films have included three-dimensional photography, photography through bomb sights and through gun sights, photog- raphy under the surface of the sea, all types of aerial photography, and photography involving many other special problems which challenge the technical ability of Navy and commercial film pro- duction personnel. Animation, model photography, stop motion, process photography, and color photography have all contributed major problems, sometimes exciting, sometimes discouraging, but always interesting. The production of a successful Navy training film requires close cooperation among the representatives of the Navy activity re- questing the films, the representatives of the Training Film Branch of the Bureau of Aeronautics, and the. personnel of the commercial or Navy film unit assigned to make the film. Coordination of effort is established and maintained by a standardized production pro- cedure which includes 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 mechanics of this procedure will sound familiar to you—they are inherent in all film production, but, throughout all planning for Navy training films, there are the following special considerations: (1} The film must teach. (2) The film must teach technical information or concepts for which no previous film presentation may have been devised. (5) There must be a production plan that fits Navy production conditions. (4) The technical experts will often differ in their viewpoints, yet the picture must show the right way or a right way to do a job, with which they all concur. (5) The widely divergent viewpoints on what to teach, and how to film what is to be taught, must be resolved rapidly and accurately. (6) The film must be made as quickly as possible, as inexpensively as possible, and must be technically correct. The first step in production procedure within the Training Film Branch is the appointment of the Project Supervisor, who will steer the training film through production from start to finish. The Project Supervisor stands in relation to a training film in production