Television

When the Army explored ways to adapt television to training uses, Army Pictorial Center was in the forefront, with experiments in video production on a special stage built for that purpose.  Television production soon moved on, and APC remained a film production facility and home of the Motion Picture Depository.

Few alumni have written to provide information about television at APC.  Norman Roder wrote, "You have a very interesting site but I did not find any of the men that were in the video area. We made kinescope recordings as another way of making the training films. It was quite a trick to make them without and minimize the lines. They also had 'shutter bars' which had to be eliminated, We had a small unit there and also a mobile unit that went out in the field to show how and how not to use closed circuit TV and films from the electronic media."

(Posted November 14, 2011)