| Abstrakt: |
This article presents information on the training films produced, procured, and distributed by Signal Corps, the U.S. Army Pictorial Service, up to August 1944. Early 1940 found the United States engaging in a global war and faced with the momentous task of mobilizing and training 10,000,000 peace-loving citizens to fight with the highest degree of military skill and to use the technical weapons of destruction. The military leadership responsible for training the rapidly mobilizing armed forces felt that in this great school where there could be no failures teaching tools were necessary to carrying on instruction. Up to August 1944, more than eight hundred Army Service Forces and Army Ground Forces training film subjects had been produced or procured covering almost every phase of the Army training program. Since fighting a modern war entails technical training in almost every area of learning, many of the technical films developed and used by the military may be of great value to peacetime educational agencies when the plans for re-conversion are complete. |
