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The Navy's Training Film Production Program
And a Description of U. S. Naval Photographic Center Film Depository Facilities Available to Commercial Film and Television Agencies
By WILSON R. GRONENWETT and WILLIAM M. TIMMONS
The production of a motion picture is traced from the request stage through the Navy Film Board of Review, to production by either commercial contractor or the Navy Photographic Center. Film distribution is described, and also the special photographic services available to the film and television industries by the Naval Photographic Center's film depository.
T. HE NAVY'S film production program
grows out of a need. The Navy has many training schools, special activities and, of course, the fleet. In all these places men must be trained efficiently and effectively in the skills and knowledges of Navy work. These are intensely practical needs.
In the past, the apprentice system has been an excellent method of meeting such needs. An inexperienced man worked alongside a trained man and gradually gained the same skills and knowledge through observation, active learning and correction of mistakes pointed out by the trained man. The apprentice system, however, was slow,
Presented on April 22, 1952, at the Society's Convention at Chicago, 111., by LCDR Wilson R. Cronenwett, USN, Head, Motion Picture Branch, U.S. Naval Photographic Center, Anacostia, D.C., and Dr. William M. Timmons, Educational Adviser, Naval Photographic Center.
could be used only for training a relatively small number of men. Necessary skills and knowledge in such highly technical and complex fields as electronics and fire control also proved the inadequacy of the apprentice system. The untrained man could not learn these complex skills and knowledge by observation. He could work beside the experienced man for many months without learning more than the superficial aspects of the work. Too much was hidden from direct view, or there was so much to view that one couldn't interpret it.
The training film, along with other aids and methods, has solved the training problem. It has many of the merits of the apprentice system, while at the same time permitting observation of those things which are normally hidden or which are cluttered up in a maze of detail. It is equally useful for teaching simple skills and techniques, and highly
July 1952 Journal of the SMPTE Vol. 59
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