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Paul Roales
Paul Roales provided this update:
Back in 2003 I emailed your web site
about my TDY duty at the APC seeking some information on the
training films I starred in. Since then I have received copies
of my files from the Army and have a little more information I
can provide.
I determined that it was in August 1964
(not 65) that I was sent TDY to the Army Pictorial Center in
Astoria, Long Island City, Queens, New York, for 3 weeks to star
in a training film on how to install charts, change ink
cartridges, pens etc. on the Minneapolis-Honeywell electronic
recorders we used in the Micro-meteorology phase of the
Meteorology course which I was teaching at Ft. Monmouth, NJ. I
was a PFC (not SP-4) at the time. The training films were
released in June 1965 and were called: "Meteorological
Instruments, PT I--Potentiometer Type Recorders: TF 11-3533" and
"Meteorological Instruments, PT II--Calibration Check of
Potentiometer Type Recorders: TF 11-3534". The Army declared
them obsolete in May 1993 after using them for 28 years.
I tried to track down copies of the
training films, but had no luck.
Paul had previously written:
I was an Army Instructor of Meteorology
at Ft. Monmouth, NJ and in 1965(?). I was sent TDY to the
Army Pictorial Center in New York to star in a training film on
how to install charts, change ink cartridges, pens etc. on the
Minneapolis-Honeywell electronic recorders we used in the
Micro-meteorology phase of the course.
The Army Pictorial Center was moved in
1970 to Redstone Arsenal in Alabama. The old building in New
York is still a studio and Sesame Street has been filmed there
for the past seven seasons.
I never saw the finished training film,
but the experience stuck with me. I had to put on make-up every
morning for filming and follow direction very carefully in the
repeated "takes".
I also remember meeting Garry Moore
(a
TV show host from the 50's to the 70's) who was filming
something for the Army while I was there.
Although I was a SP-4 at that time (I
think) I wore an officers shirt and was only filmed from the
waist up. I got chewed out by an over-zealous officer in the
cafateria one day for wearing the mixed uniform to lunch.
Is
there anyway that I could track down that training film? I do
not know its title. Is there a record of training films
somewhere? Or does anybody remember when Gary Moore was there so
I can pin down my TDY?
Thanks,
Paul Roales
paroales@ionet.net
Updated June 18, 2006, and
June 11, 2021.
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