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Those Army And Navy Scenes On TV Are By Courtesy Of The Pentagon
When you see a battle on your television screen, or a story set at a military base or aboard a battleship or in a submarine, it’s likely they’re strictly GI—Government Issue.
The United States Department of Defense has gone all out in offering cooperation to television producers.
The Pentagon believes that when it helps achieve authenticity in a TV show, the public gets a more accurate picture of military life; the morale of members of the Armed Forces is improved, and unfavorable portrayals of the Army, Navy and Air Force are eliminated. All this, in turn, helps the long-range objective of stimulating recruiting.
The cooperation, of course, is saving the producers of filmed TV shows many thousands of dollars and gives them that prestige-adding line, “Produced with the cooperation of the Department of Defense.”
The Department of Defense’s assistance takes many forms:
Use of official Armed Services films.
Permission to film TV stories “on location.”
Technical advice from military experts—from checking the decorations on a uniform to setting up a battle formation.
Rarely, even the use of military cameramen to film specialized scenes.
Cooperation is extended equally to programs stressing fact and _ fiction, whether entirely military in theme or only partly so. In any event, the TV producers follow their own story line,
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TV cameras film Marine helicopter in action
use their own actors and cameramen.
Medic recently made “World So High,” based on the experiences of Air Force Surgeon William R. Lovelace, who parachuted from over 40,000 feet to test effects of altitude on the human system. Most of “World So High” was made by Medic cameramen and actors at March Air Force base in California. But some was Air Force film of the actual tests.
Louis F. Edelman, producer of the Danny Thomas show, Make Room for Daddy, is preparing a new series, It’s a Great Country, which sometimes will utilize service backgrounds.
Schlitz Playhouse is currently making “The Young and Brave,” with top professional actors, Navy background and full Navy cooperation.
In the broad comedy category is CBS’ You'll Never Get Rich. While