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356 Transactions of S.M.P.E., Vol XIII, No. 38, 1929
New methods of. instruction were sought to help out. It was hero that pictures first began to play a part in training the Army. Men learn more quickly hj the eye than by the ear. There are more eye-minded people in this world than there are ear-minded. Army officers knew this principle and applied it by using motion pictures in the solution of the new training problem. So, under the stress of war, the first instructional motion picture made its appearance.
I believe the Army was the first agency of importance in the country to employ instructional pictures. The Signal Corps of the United States Army made its first contract for a training picture with the Lee Film Company of San Antonio, Texas, in the spring of 1917. The contract w^as signed April 5, 1917, and the United States declared war on Grcrmany April 6, 1917. It is of interest to note in passing that John J. Pershing, then Major General and in charge of the Army on the Mexican Border, approved the contract. The pictures made, illustrated the activities of field signal units, and the immediate object for which they were made was the instruction of the Enlisted Reserve Corps of the Signal Corps, not the Regular Army soldier.
Other uses for pictures were soon discovered. We found our World War recruits lacking in a great many kinds of knowledge. They not only needed instruction in military drill, discipline and tactics, but required to be taught the simplest rules of bodily health and sanitation. It was necessary to find a means of quickly warning the thousands of men recently called from all walks of life to the colors of the more common dangers that beset the path of the young soldier. This means had to be one which ''packed a punch." Lectures and exhortations were of little use in getting across this message. Here, again, the picture could tell the story plainer and more emphatically than any words. Its message was expressed in the universal language, that of the eye. So, motion pictures Were introduced in our war-time camps and soon proved to be an effective instrument in quickly influencing and educating that great body of young men gathered under our Flag in many of the moral and physical problems that confronted our World War Army.
The Army found yet another use for pictures under the spur of war. The factories, foundries, mills laboratories, shipyards, camps, all that multitude of agencies connected with producing what we term munitions of war, likewise required speeding up in pro