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STORY DEVELOPMENT AND CONTROL IN TRAINING
FILMS*
GRANT LEENHOUTS'
Summary. — The Navy's method of story development and control is based on a visualization of the contents of a film from the initial outline to the screening of the final composite print. Such a plan is necessary to satisfy specific Navy training requirements and to provide the right film in the least amount of time and for a minimum amount of money. Through a system of story conferences and production check points each film is developed in terms of pictures — not words. Such visualization has helped insure the success of the Navy's training film program.
The United States Navy has a continuous training film production load averaging 1000 films, and each film is designed to fill a specific training requirement. Because of wartime urgency, a method of story development and control was established to insure the production of training films of maximum effectiveness which are produced with minimum use of time and film.
The types of training films made by the Navy can be divided into 4 broad categories: The factual "howto-do-it" film, the "operational" type which is made under actual or simulated combat conditions, the "indoctrinational" type, and the "mental conditioning" or "attitude creating" film.
Of the 4 types of films mentioned, the first three are sometimes the easiest to produce because the Navy feels it is inadvisable to waste time and money in sugar-coating facts and fundamentals. A story woven around an intricate gunnery computer might easily confuse the basic training aspects of the film, and would certainly take longer to produce, and would cost more money. But the "mental conditioning" or "attitude creating" film not only requires a story, it also requires more thought and skill in production than most entertainment-type feature pictures.
* Presented Oct. 18, 1944, at the Technical Conference in New York. ** Lieutenant, USNR, Training Film Branch, Bureau of Aeronautics, U. S. Navy, Washington, D. C. 340