Big Picture: Character Guidance
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Finding Not asserted
Not asserted: the record does not name the creating body; its local identifier places it in NARA record group 111 (Office of the Chief Signal Officer, Army Signal Corps), a federal agency's records, which is evidence of federal origin but not proof of authorship, since agencies also filed acquired and captured footage.
The record does not name a federal creating body, or names one alongside a private producer, a state body or a government corporation. Such a film may well be a government work, but this registry only says so when the record does.
- Creating body, as recorded
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- National Archives Identifier
- 2569694 (local identifier 111-TV-429)
- Internet Archive item
- gov.archives.arc.2569694 (uploader's licence mark: http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/)
- Flags
- no-creator, record-group-federal
The record
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National Archives and Records Administration ARC Identifier 2569694 / Local Identifier 111-TV-429 Big Picture: Character Guidance DVD Copied by Timothy Vollmer. In this issue, television audiences will see the Army's latest methods used in character guidance instruction. Using open ended films which have been staged and produced by the Army Pictorial Center, a problem is presented to the soldier on an ethical subject which plays, or might someday play, an important part in his life. The films are purposely left unresolved so that, after watching them, the soldiers may evaluate for themselves the behavior of the characters and provide their own solution to the problems presented. That such a vast military organization as the United States Army should have a program dealing with character guidance may seem a little puzzling. But the character of the American soldier is representative of this country--and the character of a country may well be its most precious possession.