LEARNING TO FIGHT

Dominion, Volume 35, Issue 258, 30 July 1942, Page 3

LEARNING TO FIGHT

Soldiers Go To The Pictures

The New Zealand soldier does not only go to the pictures for relaxation and aniuseinent while on leave. In the camps themselves this visual method of training is playing tin increasingly imporant part and it is intended that its use be considerably extended. Large numbers of films have come front overseas dealing with, the latest military They are all up-to-date, for the reason that any improvement in a method demonstrated in a particular film since it was taken, will immediately make it.iiseless from a training viewpoint. Local initiative in the making of films for training purposes Ims been shown at the Armoured Fighting Vehicles School. There is sonic equipment which units do not possess, but they are able to get a fair idea of how it is used from the latest training films. One interesting film now being shown is that of the part of the Royal Corps of Signals in a big military exercise in England. Another demonstrates bomb disposal. . Where screening apparatus is available the films are specially valuable in camps on days when tlie weather _is against outdoor operations. The showing of practical training films in these circumstances means that there is no waste time in that period of the day allocated for training purposes. . The films are distributed iq district schools and other training establishments, and it is hoped to extend the jirovision of apparatus to a degree which will make possible the maximum use of the latest visual aid to soldiering perfection.