https://peertube.dngr.us/videos/watch/57721dfd-17b3-4928-a112-0ee5f78e3de2 Love our channel? Help us save and post more orphaned films! Support us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/PeriscopeFilm Even a really tiny contribution can make a difference. 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 assist gunners with firing on enemy targets (09:58). A pilot looks at an air spot mosaic developed from earlier reconnaissance photos. A beachmaster coordinates a supply dump on a beach (11:10). Paratroopers are briefed with a large map. Officers examine a 3D model of a map derived from mosaic photographs assessed by the PIs (12:00). Men work on developing reconnaissance photographs and interpreting them. Jeeps drive up a dirt road (14:13) on what appears to be a South Pacific island; an MP directs traffic. Officers study a large map of previously unsurveyed areas. Men work on creating a large mosaic map (15:14). Viewers see some of the photography instruments inside a plane. An airborne magnetometer is lowered from a B-25. In Antarctica, a plane taxis on a runway. A photographer shoots film from a plane. The film concludes with aerial footage of the Statue of Liberty and the New York City skyline. Motion picture films don't last forever; many have already been lost or destroyed. We collect, scan and preserve 35mm, 16mm and 8mm movies -- including home movies, industrial films, and other non-fiction. If you have films you'd like to have scanned or donate to Periscope Film, we'd love to hear from you. Contact us via the link below. This film is part of the Periscope Film LLC archive, one of the largest historic military, transportation, and aviation stock footage collections in the USA. Entirely film backed, this material is available for licensing in 24p HD, 2k and 4k. For more information visit http://www.PeriscopeFilm.com Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7sWXyXASqOU Mirrored from Periscope Film (https://www.youtube.com/@PeriscopeFilm) Sat, 13 Jun 2026 13:17:28 GMT https://validator.w3.org/feed/docs/rss2.html PeerTube - https://peertube.dngr.us https://peertube.dngr.us/lazy-static/avatars/41a6fee9-7f57-42d0-a5fc-5db4f1af2e31.png https://peertube.dngr.us/videos/watch/57721dfd-17b3-4928-a112-0ee5f78e3de2 All rights reserved, unless otherwise specified in the terms specified at https://peertube.dngr.us/about and potential licenses granted by each content's rightholder.