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

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who do not have a film production concept that the use of a storyboard, with the script, will enable the requesting authority, and others who will pass upon the film before it gets to the fleet, to visualize the final product. As to film length, we feel that a film should be designed for a specific need. That is, if it needs to be a 3£minute film, we'll make it ; if a 1 3-minute film, we'll make that too. Too often a contract might call for a two-reel picture, and when 18^ minutes of film will do an adequate job, the film editor will needlessly lengthen the scenes to fill the tworeel requirement. What was your third point, Mr. Johnson? Mr. Johnson: Emphasis on the documentary .... LCDR Croncnwett: Many of our films, as you can well imagine, are documentary in approach since many of them are photographic reports. In other words, we'll go out to cover an amphibious landing as best we can, without preplanning, because you can't always know what's going to happen. It would be as though we had planned to kine the show we saw on TV here this afternoon. Something invariably happens. May I say here, with pardonable pride in behalf of those people — officer and civilian — who have made training films for the Navy since 1942: twelve Navy films have won 16 national and international awards. I think these awards are based upon educationally sound, technically accurate, and technically well made motion pictures. Cronenwett sin4 Timmons: Navy Training Film Production 57