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U.S. Navy Training Film " Photography in Intelligence " Photo Analysis Movie 26544 (1947)

1947 · Short film · 17 min

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This short 1947 U.S. Navy training film (MN-5348D) shows the intelligence that is gathered through Navy photography missions and gives viewers a look at the men who take the photographs, develop the photographs, and interpret the images. The film opens with a plane flying through the sky, followed by a shot of a Navy task force at sea. Viewers see ships’ guns moving into position and planes taking off from carriers (01:10). Men review the mission in a chart room. A man photographs enemy targets from an airplane. Highly trained officers called Photographic Interpreters, or PIs, look through magnifying glasses at reconnaissance photographs to identify enemy targets (01:59). Men carry cameras to a Consolidated B-24 Liberator (02:42); Liberators are shown flying through the air. A plane drops camera film via parachute to a camp where men develop the photographs. A reconnaissance photograph shows an enemy air field (03:42). Two men load a flash bomb onto a plane (04:47). A cameraman fires a flash bomb during a night flight. A reconnaissance photograph shows an enemy harbor and their shipping operations (06:44). There is footage of a ship as seen through a submarine periscope (07:17). Another photograph shows enemy industrial plants. Bombs are dropped from B-24s (08:28). The Navy task force prepares for its mission (09:15); viewers see landing craft loaded with soldiers waiting for orders to move to shore. In the CIC (combat information center), men monitor radars and maps as they…

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Running time
17 minutes
Collection
Ephemeral Films

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