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unusual facts about training film



Abroad with Two Yanks

Due to Hal Roach's contract for filming training films for the American Army, the film and Bendix's commitment to it was sold to producer Edward Small with Roach employee Fred Guiol to be credited as a producer.


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Bob Breen

Bob Breen has also worked in training film actors in martial arts and fighting techniques, including working on spear and sword fighting with Gerard Butler and other actors for the 2007 film 300.

Can opener

They were also known as a "John Wayne" because the actor was shown in a training film opening a can of K-rations.

Q clearance

Actor Charlton Heston once held a "Q" Clearance for six years when he served as a nuclear armament topics training film narrator for the military during his post-World War II military service years.

The Way Ahead

The three had originally produced the 1943 training film The New Lot, which was produced for the Army Kinematograph Service.