 With the end of the war, the series lost its financial backing from the Wartime Information Board, but continued as an NFB series of theatrical shorts that included newsreels as well as animated shorts.The series was initially produced by Stuart Legg, who also directed many of the early films.The first film in the series was Legg's "Atlantic Patrol", released in April 1940, about the Royal Canadian Navy's role in protecting convoys from Halifax to the United Kingdom from U-boat attack.