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    AAF Base Unit (Motion Picture Unit), originally known as the First Motion Picture Unit, Army Air Forces, was the primary film production unit of the U...
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    motion picture photographers to document the test. Most of these photographers were part of a small detachment of the First Motion Picture Unit from Long...
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    factory during World War II when she met a photographer from the First Motion Picture Unit and began a successful pin-up modeling career, which led to short-lived...
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    The Motion Picture & Television Fund (MPTF) is a charitable organization that offers assistance and care to those in the motion picture and television...
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    David Conover (category First Motion Picture Unit personnel)
    for Yank magazine. While attached to the U.S. Army Air Forces' First Motion Picture Unit, his commanding officer was future U.S. president Ronald Reagan...
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  • Arthur Gardner (producer) (category First Motion Picture Unit personnel)
    During World War II, Gardner served in the Army Air Forces' First Motion Picture Unit in Culver City, California. Like many Jewish actors at the time...
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    George Reeves (category First Motion Picture Unit personnel)
    version. Reeves was then transferred to the Army Air Force’s First Motion Picture Unit, where he made training films. Discharged at the war's end, Reeves...
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  • Sony Pictures Entertainment Motion Picture Group (formerly known as the Columbia TriStar Motion Picture Group until 2013, and abbreviated as SPMPG) is...
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    Jules Engel (category First Motion Picture Unit personnel)
    aesthetics of animation.[citation needed] He was an animator in the First Motion Picture Unit during World War II, alongside the likes of Ronald Reagan, and...
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  • Jules Levy (producer) (category First Motion Picture Unit personnel)
    U.S. Army Air Forces to fight in World War II, serving in the First Motion Picture Unit. While serving under Ronald Reagan at Culver City's Hal Roach...
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  • The Rear Gunner (category First Motion Picture Unit films)
    distributed and exhibited by Warner Bros. under the auspices of the Motion Picture Committee Cooperating for National Defense. The Rear Gunner was the...
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  • Encyclopædia Britannica Films Film Booking Offices of America First Motion Picture Unit First National Pictures Full Moon Features Grand National Pictures...
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    Frank Thomas (animator) (category First Motion Picture Unit personnel)
    Army Air Forces). During World War II he was assigned to the First Motion Picture Unit where he made training films. In feature films, among the characters...
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    William Holden (category First Motion Picture Unit personnel)
    then a first lieutenant in the United States Army Air Force during World War II, where he acted in training films for the First Motion Picture Unit, including...
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    Clark Gable (category First Motion Picture Unit personnel)
    H. "Hap" Arnold offered Gable a "special assignment" with the First Motion Picture Unit following basic training. The Washington Star reported that Gable...
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    Ben-Hur (1959), all three went on to receive the Academy Award for Best Picture. He's also known for directing the drama Dodsworth (1936) with Walter Huston...
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  • Wings Up (category First Motion Picture Unit films)
    "Academy Awards database: 16th award show search results". Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. Harris, Warren G. Clark Gable: A Biography. New York:...
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  • William T. Orr (category First Motion Picture Unit personnel)
    Army Air Force. He was assigned to the First Motion Picture Unit, and he appeared in training films. As the first head of Warner Bros. Television department...
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    Craig Stevens (actor) (category First Motion Picture Unit personnel)
    States Army Air Corps' First Motion Picture Unit based in Culver City, California acting in propaganda and training films. That unit came to be known as...
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    Paul Mantz (category First Motion Picture Unit personnel)
    major (later promoted to lieutenant colonel), serving in the First Motion Picture Unit (FMPU) in California. Following an August 1944 honorable discharge...
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  • Film (redirect from Motion picture)
    A film, also known as a movie or motion picture, is a work of visual art that simulates experiences and otherwise communicates ideas, stories, perceptions...
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    Bill Scott (voice actor) (category First Motion Picture Unit personnel)
    radio stations. During World War II, he served in the U.S. Army's First Motion Picture Unit (reporting to Lt. Ronald Reagan), where he worked with such animators...
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    Combat America (category First Motion Picture Unit films)
    security. Their first mission flying Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress bombers has the armada departing at 15-second intervals. The first mission of the 351st...
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  • Owen Crump (category First Motion Picture Unit personnel)
    Air Forces. He helped form the United States Army Air Forces's First Motion Picture Unit in 1942, where he served as a commander. Crump was born on December...
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  • Richard L. Bare (category First Motion Picture Unit personnel)
    captain in the Army Air Forces' First Motion Picture Unit. Bare also wrote The Film Director: A Practical Guide to Motion Picture and Television Techniques...
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    Hal Roach Studios was an American motion picture and, through its TV production subsidiary, Hal Roach Television Corporation, television production studio...
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    Ronald Reagan (category First Motion Picture Unit personnel)
    for the wrong candidate. A contemporary media account stated that if a motion to reconsider the nomination had been in order, it might have passed. In...
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  • Resisting Enemy Interrogation (category First Motion Picture Unit films)
    purchased from Harold Medford to be made into a Universal-International motion picture with a working title of "Prisoner of War." The film, entitled Target...
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    Van Heflin (category First Motion Picture Unit personnel)
    and Germany, before joining, with many other actors, the First Motion Picture Unit. He first appeared in the training film Land and Live in the Jungle...
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  • John Sturges (category First Motion Picture Unit personnel)
    States Army Air Forces First Motion Picture Unit. Sturges's mainstream directorial career began with The Man Who Dared (1946), the first of many B movies....
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