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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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...
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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...
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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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Pare Lorentz (category First Motion Picture Unit personnel)
Lorentz Motion Picture, Sound Recording, and Photographic Collection, 1936–1949 Archived December 15, 2018, at the Wayback Machine at the Motion Picture, Sound...
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Sy Gomberg (category First Motion Picture Unit personnel)
and grew up in Newark, New Jersey. He spent World War II in the First Motion Picture Unit in Hollywood. After the war, he was a contributor to Collier's...
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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 Hubley (category First Motion Picture Unit personnel)
the United States Armed Forces to work in the First Motion Picture Unit, an independent film production unit in the Air Force. Here, Hubley directed animated...
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David Rose (songwriter) (category First Motion Picture Unit personnel)
the marriage, at the insistence of her mother, her husband, and her motion picture studio, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. Garland and Rose divorced in 1944. He had...
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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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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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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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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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Bernard Wolf (category First Motion Picture Unit personnel)
before being drafted during World War II. Wolf was assigned to the First Motion Picture Unit, a group of former Hollywood personnel who created short educational...
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