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Show another; the Officer in charge of the Recruiting Service, deeply de-eply interested from a recruiting recruit-ing angle, because good pk-mros will bring good recruites, bad pictures may scare thorn away; and an officer from the Intelligence Intell-igence Department, primarily interested in-terested iu seeing that no military mil-itary secrets are divulged on the screen. Besides these, if the picture pic-ture deals with any particular service sush as the submarine branch or the air force, a qual ifed office of that service is appointed ap-pointed to the Beard. For example, exam-ple, in "Flight Command" the Bureau of Aeronautics was vitally vit-ally concerned. So the script was read by no fewer than four qnal ified aviators of that Hnr?:"t and their recommendations were given decisive weicjit in deter-minng deter-minng what cooperaton should be given. Even though only a small part of actual shooting is done aboard ship, so many requests for ass- Istance come into the Navy Department De-partment that cooperation on all is impossible. So a segreation of material is made. In the first category comes pictures which rcflecet credit on the Navy and are of sufficient ir.iportar.ee to be desired; so outstanding, in fact, ( that the Navy is offered some thing of value. In such cases , eooperaion. not to in i erfere with regular fleet operations scbedr.als j may be authorize d. Such authorzations are very few iu number. In the second clas-iri-cation come pictures which, from t'.ie Navy's point of view, are innocuous in-nocuous and have nothing to offer. off-er. On such scrip's the -Navy Department De-partment ir.ay give an expression expres-sion of approval with extending active cooperation. In the third group come pictures which the iNavy considers undesirable. Oa these the Department expresses' a d isapproval. At The Main Sunday Thrills in the air, at sea and on land are packed into the dramatic drama-tic tale of "Fligli Command." spectacular . tale of Uncle Sam's flying ''Hell Cats." which comes comes to the Main Theatre, screen this Sunday with Robert Taylor, Walter Pidgeon, Paul Kelley, Shepperd Strudwick and Nat Pendelton are amoung its principales. This aviation epec was filmed at Pensacola, San Diego and Pearl Harbor with the cooperation coop-eration of the United States Navy. The public -the taxpayers who piovide funds for the Navy's maintenance main-tenance like to see their Navy and are entitled to see it. Be cause the great percentage of our population lives Inland, the motion mo-tion picture becomes the great ideal medium for such visual presenation. Recognizing this, it seems good judgment to assist motion picture compainies pre-enting pre-enting the Navy in an intersting and authentic way, and it is important im-portant also to discourage the making of bad pictures. Much valuable publicity can be obtained obtain-ed for the Navy by good pictures pic-tures great deal of harm can 'be done by bad ones. Requests for aid in making motion mo-tion pictures are submited to the Public Relations branch of the Navy Department but no one officer decides whether or not the substance of the script is 'good Navy." Rather, a cross section of naval opinion is obtained ob-tained by submitting the scrip to a board of six officers. The Public Relations Officer is one for the entertainment and reo- |