Word: mots
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...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...