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...with Japan's meteoric rise & fall. Included in the welter of history are such memorable vignettes as the chaos of Pearl Harbor, the raising of the U.S. flag on the summit of Iwo Jima, the cloud of smoke & fire above Hiroshima. To keep abreast of the news, MOT will not shoot until the last minute some of the footage for the last of the 26 installments...
...Alan Webb are starred in this production, and they all have their moments. Miss Swanson, fresh from being batted around by Jose Ferrer in "Twentieth Century," confirms the fact that she is a terrific ham. After a slow first act, she adjusts to the requirements of the "bon mot" dialogue, tossing off her lines with graceful aplomb. But she lags badly in the serious moments, gesturing wildly, striking majestic poses, and trying to act. Fortunately, there aren't many serious moments...
...Commander Eisenhower, whose quarterbacking story set the pattern for Crusade in Europe. In the Pacific war, the Marine, Navy, Army and Air outfits fought under various separate and shifting commands that sometimes passed the ball to each other, more often starred individually in sallies against the enemy. Even today, MOT's research staff often has to dig long and well to resolve hard-held disagreement over the strategy used by Admiral Nimitz' fleets, General MacArthur's forces, or the various commanders in China, Burma and India. Working only a few weeks ahead of telecast dates, the scripters...
Producer Arthur Tourtellot, also a veteran of the Eisenhower story, shows little caution in his open enthusiasm for the new series, MOT's first TV release since dropping its traditional movie-theater productions to concentrate on television. After a look at a New York Times review of MOT documentaries since 1935 ("a symbol of real accomplishment in the 'pictorial journalism' field"). Tourtellot took a careful second look at his new project. "I want to be sure," he said, "that Pacific gets us well along the way toward the same kind of results...
Jawaharlal Nehru, Prime Minister of India, visited Harvard yesterday afternoon and within three hours dined with President Conant, posed for about 200 pictures, visited a typical student's room, walked through two libraries and an art museum, mot the Law School faculty, and watched a ten-minute movie about gas explosions...