Salt Lake Telegram | 1938-10-27 | Page 11 | Uncle Sam's Admirals Best to Hit Public Opinion Target

Uncle Sams Sam's Admirals Best To Hit Public Opinion Target HOLLYWOOD Oct 27 21 Uncle PJ Iff Uncle Sams Sam's admirals some film sources suggest are the worlds world's cleverest marksmen when it comes to hiting hitting hitting hit- hit ting ing the bullseye of public opinion with a salvo of celluloid Today N Navy vy day one of the loudest loudest loud- loud est st cheers for the United Stat States States' s' s First Line of Defense will come from rom one of its best friends the friends the motion picture industry Thanks to the shrewd judgment of f navy chiefs who pass on screen screenplays screenplays plays lays dealing with the navy service service serice ser ser- ser ser- vice ice films have become a staple product entertaining to the public pubic public pub pub- lic ic profitable to the producer and creative of goodwill for the men menn in n blue Intelligent cooperation with has been a naval tenet dating back to World war days It it was perhaps never demonstrated ed d so spectacularly as last summer summer summer sum sum- mer when worth of fleet aircraft flew in scenes for a Hollywood Hollywood Hollywood Holly Holly- wood picture The picture Wings of the Navy is s set for release some time in Janary January January Jan- Jan I uary ary the month congress convenes possibly to consider new appropriations ions for building up the United States tates fleet The picture is navy to the core A naval officer Lieutenant Commander Commander Commander Com Com- mander Aurelius B. B worked gratis on writing the script with ith Michael Fessier Warner brothers' brothers studio scenarist The navy motion picture board of review mindful of the value to both joth the public at large and the naval aval service in the production of accurate portrayals of naval life o. o kd the finished story A technical adviser perm permitted no i honorarium from Warners' Warners was detached detached detached de de- de- de from duty at the naval aircraft aircraft aircraft air air- craft fa factory tory at Philadelphia to supervise supervise supervise su su- su- su the shooting of every scene The adviser Lieutenant Commander Comman Comman- der Hugh S. S Sease saved the studio thousands of feet of film by seeing that it gave intimate peeks into fighting planes and bombers without without without with with- out disclosing military secrets Two naval air stations Pensacola Fla Fl and San Diego Cal held virtual virtual virtual vir vir- open house for five weeks as Lloyd Bacon lieutenant commander comman- comman der in the naval reserve directed location shots Seven hundred war birds including including including ing 84 of the newest two two motored motored giant patrol bombers were captured captured captured cap by the camera Even the daughters of three admirals admirals admirals ad ad- danced as atmosphere in ina ina ina a ballroom sequence The picture was produced as smoothly as if it had all been made on Warners' Warners back lot