Made by the Burton Holmes organization, this black & white educational U.S. Navy Training Film is one of a series made to train lookouts. This one is about learning the bearings in degrees system for use at sea, in reporting enemy ships and aircraft. No copyright but this is circa 1944.
Opening: U.S. Navy Training Film – Training Lookouts Part 2 – Bearings (:09-:52). Two sailors on watch look out at the sea, one has binoculars. A warship is seen in the distance. How should its position be described?
An officer places a ship model down on a table. He turns it. A diagram shows the circle around the ship. Markers for 0-360 degrees are placed. The ship is in the middle of this marker circle (:53-2:50). A ship goes around the circle in relation to your ship and you can know the position based on degrees. Dead ahead is explained as is the clockwise way of a clock. A ship is placed north of your ship as displayed by models. The other ship is positioned at 90 degrees, the next is put at 180 degrees, and the next at 270 degrees (2:51-5:13). Two ship models are placed near your ship. One is 45 degrees and the other is 315 degrees. Title: How to Report and Record Bearings. A sailor uses binoculars that are attached to a bearing system. How 180 degrees is written versus spoken is explained and shown (5:14-6:27). How 305 degrees is written versus spoken is explained and shown. How 100 degrees is written versus spoken is explained and shown. How 45 degrees is written versus spoken is explained and shown (6:28-7:40). How 90 degrees is written versus spoken is explained and shown. How 5 degrees is written versus spoken is explained and shown. How 0 degrees is written versus spoken is explained and shown followed by how 360 degrees is written versus spoken is explained and shown (7:41-8:54). Title: How to Estimate Bearings. A surveyor measures a tract of land. He uses a transit (9:25). A navigator on a Navy ship checks bearings using a pelorus. This is a reference tool for maintaining bearing of a vessel at sea. It is a “dumb compass” without a directive element, suitably mounted and provided with vanes to permit observation of relative bearings.(9:40). A surface lookout alidade. A sailor uses the alidade, a sighting device or pointer for determining directions or measuring angles. A lookout uses regular binoculars. A ship model is used again. One ship is in the middle and the other is slightly turned. The models are reconfigured again. These are tests for doing the estimate in degrees (8:55-11:36). A ship in the distance. Binoculars are used by a sailor (11:37-11:52). End credits (11:53-12:04).
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