VOLUME V NUMBER 34
22 AUGUST I960
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ADAK PERSONNEL ARE INVITED JO
PARTICIPATE IN OPERATION TRIPOD
The Chief of Information, in cooperation with the Commanding Officer, U. S.
Naval Photographic Center, is augmenting the Navy Exhibit Program with the Navy
Photographic Art Program (Operation TRIPOD) to stimulate worldwide photographic
coverage of the Navy for public showing. Operation TRIPOD is not concerned at
all with pictorial news coverage, but is designed to encourage submission of
photographs which merit public exhibition because of their artistic or tech
nical quality.
Navy and Marine Corps personnel, either designated or not as photographers
may submit personally-owned photographs, transparencies, or negatives to the
Chief of Information. Personal negatives and transparencies will be returned to
the individual upon request.
Official U. S. Navy photography may be submitted to the'Chief of Information
via the photographer’s commanding officer with negative attached. The negative
will be forwarded to the Naval Photographic Center, U. S. Naval Air Station
Anacostia, Washington 25, D.C. in accordance with chapter 2 of OPNAVlNSTRUCTKN
3150.6A of 17 July 1957.
Photographs and transparencies will be selected for display in one of the
following classifications:
CATEGORY I: Black & white phtofcos of military scenes, actions, personnel or
equipment. Negatives, other than those of official U.S. Navy photographs with
naval photographic identification numbers, must be attached to the print.
CATEGORY II: Black and white photographs of nonrailitary subjects. Negatives
should be attached to all entries in this category.
CATEGORY III: Color transparencies or prints of military or non-military—
subjects.
Each item submitted for use in Operation TRIPOD will be accompanied with
a copy of NAVEXOS 4562 which will be available from the PIO'Offloer.yLTJS Grtrh-*
await at the Administration Building Legal Office in the near future.
Possible material: Photographs taken at previous duty station, Adak scenes
like the Adak National Forest, Ghost Towns in the Hills, etc.......
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