{| The F3F was featured as an "experimental fighter" in Warner Bros's Wings of the Navy

Wings Of The Navy (film)

Wings of the Navy is a 1939 Warner Bros. drama directed by Lloyd Bacon, starring Olivia de Havilland and John Payne. Like many of the Warner Bros. features in the pre-World War II era, it was intended to serve as propaganda for the U.S...

(1939).

The F3F-2 was featured in the 1940 film Flight Command

Flight Command

Flight Command is a 1940 film about a cocky U.S. Navy pilot who has problems with his new squadron and falls for the wife of his commander...

, starring Robert Taylor

Robert Taylor (actor)

Robert Taylor was an American film and television actor.-Early life:Born Spangler Arlington Brugh in Filley, Nebraska, he was the son of Ruth Adaline and Spangler Andrew Brugh, who was a farmer turned doctor...

 as a pilot whose work developing instrument landing systems helps his lost squadron return to NAS North Island.

Perhaps the most prominent and popular record of F3Fs is in the 1941 Technicolor film Dive Bomber

Dive Bomber (film)

Dive Bomber is a 1941 American propaganda film directed by Michael Curtiz. It is notable for both its Technicolor photography of pre-World War II United States Navy aircraft and as a historical document of the US in 1941, including the aircraft carrier USS Enterprise, one of the best known World...

, also set at NAS North Island.