Word: fiscus
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Eleven years ago Los Angeles' enterprising KTLA mounted a mobile TV camera, began offering its viewers on-the-spot coverage of major news events. Among them: atom bomb explosions on Yucca Flat, a Sante Fe train wreck, an earthquake in California, the ordeal of little Kathy Fiscus trapped in the bottom of a well. Last week KTLA announced triumphantly that it had succeeded in building a TV camera into a helicopter, the world's first commercial airborne unit...
Only the news that the girls has been discovered (at the bottom of a well) saves the town from mass riot. This is an implausible touch, but in introduces what might almost be another story--a dramatic rescue operation based on the Kathy Fiscus tragedy. Excellent night photography highlights these scenes as Negroes and whites work together in the glare of automobile headlights to tunnel through to the girl. This brings a fast moving climax to a picture that's good entertainment, and something to think about...