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...
32 KB (2,931 words) - 17:48, 25 March 2025
Lookout Mountain Air Force Station (redirect from 1352nd Motion Picture Squadron)
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...
32 KB (3,768 words) - 06:04, 13 June 2025
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...
129 KB (14,835 words) - 16:06, 25 July 2025
Encyclopædia Britannica Films Film Booking Offices of America First Motion Picture Unit First National Pictures Full Moon Features Grand National Pictures...
14 KB (928 words) - 20:53, 1 July 2025
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...
3 KB (198 words) - 16:56, 23 July 2025
The Motion Picture & Television Fund (MPTF) is a charitable organization that offers assistance and care to those in the motion picture and television...
71 KB (6,616 words) - 15:28, 5 June 2025
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...
111 KB (12,113 words) - 14:25, 22 July 2025
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...
15 KB (1,603 words) - 22:04, 25 July 2025
Sony Pictures Entertainment Motion Picture Group (formerly known as the Columbia TriStar Motion Picture Group until 2013, and abbreviated as SPMPG) is...
44 KB (1,521 words) - 00:00, 23 July 2025
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...
5 KB (393 words) - 21:26, 22 December 2024
Camouflage (1944 film) (category First Motion Picture Unit films)
is a 1944 American animated short film. It was produced by the First Motion Picture Unit, and was intended to train the United States Military in the use...
2 KB (89 words) - 07:03, 26 May 2025
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...
83 KB (10,375 words) - 16:56, 15 July 2025
Men of the Sky (1942 film) (category First Motion Picture Unit films)
the United States Army Air Force and its nascent First Motion Picture Unit, the first military unit entirely composed of professionals from the film industry...
6 KB (597 words) - 02:57, 6 December 2024
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....
8 KB (730 words) - 03:53, 4 January 2025
Arnold Laven (category First Motion Picture Unit personnel)
Forces' First Motion Picture Unit, the first unit of the United States military to be made up entirely of motion picture personnel. The unit made training...
17 KB (2,104 words) - 10:49, 6 August 2024
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...
11 KB (1,135 words) - 17:01, 4 May 2025
inventor, Fred Waller, later invented the Cinerama film format. First Motion Picture Unit The Waller Flexible Gunnery Trainer Popular Science – Google Books...
761 bytes (47 words) - 18:33, 15 April 2023
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...
3 KB (250 words) - 18:18, 31 December 2024
Gardner, and Arnold Laven, met while serving in the Air Force's First Motion Picture Unit during World War II. While serving, they decided to form their...
6 KB (411 words) - 16:20, 21 September 2024
Victor Sen Yung (category First Motion Picture Unit personnel)
Yung's military service included work in training films at the First Motion Picture Unit and a role in the Army Air Forces' play and film Winged Victory...
24 KB (2,926 words) - 17:14, 9 July 2025
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...
10 KB (727 words) - 00:10, 11 October 2024
Cinematography (redirect from Motion picture lighting)
and γράφειν (gráphein) 'to write, draw, paint, etc.') is the art of motion picture (and more recently, electronic video camera) photography. Cinematographers...
63 KB (8,927 words) - 15:51, 13 July 2025
Nestor Film Company (redirect from Nestor Motion Picture Company)
the Nestor Motion Picture Company, was an American motion picture production company. It was founded in 1909 as the West Coast production unit of the Centaur...
7 KB (550 words) - 05:10, 18 July 2025
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...
8 KB (259 words) - 17:15, 16 March 2025
recruitment and training films. Lt Reagan served as the unit's personnel officer. The First Motion Picture Unit is survived today as the U.S. Air Force's 4th Combat...
7 KB (497 words) - 22:08, 16 December 2024
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...
9 KB (1,036 words) - 23:11, 22 May 2025
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...
52 KB (4,132 words) - 21:27, 24 July 2025
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...
20 KB (2,215 words) - 04:50, 13 April 2025
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...
38 KB (4,059 words) - 18:58, 23 July 2025
Target-Invisible (category First Motion Picture Unit films)
Target-Invisible is a 1945 documentary short film produced by the First Motion Picture Unit after World War II. The film depicts the uses of radar in aerial...
5 KB (467 words) - 23:17, 18 January 2025