“It is not enough that the director, producer and other filmmaking executives know what is supposed to be happening in the film. That it communicates and the audience knows what is going on is all-important.”   L. Ron Hubbard

very separate sector of artistic creations,” wrote Mr. Hubbard, “has its own basic rules.” By way of example, he cited writing and painting, but was particularly addressing members of the cinematographic unit he had established for the production of training films. His involvement in the field says much about the man. Although he had only informally stood behind the camera through his Hollywood days in the 1930s, by the spring of 1979 there was literally no aspect of the subject he had not studied. As evidence, stand the 24 basic texts on the subject he drafted through the course of training film crews in Southern California.