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...trouble with television, says CBS Vice President Edward R. Murrow, is that "a studio in San Francisco looks exactly like a studio in New York." This week, on his ambitious new See It Now (Sun. 3:30 p.m., CBS-TV), Ed Murrow got the TV cameras far beyond the studios, and carried his audience from London to Korea...
...natural descendant of Murrow's radio news program, Hear It Now, and on the opening show it managed to achieve much of the pace of his dramatized radio newscasts. Filmed shots of Winston Churchill speaking in a blizzard of "Hear-hears" to a London Guildhall audience were expertly cut into live news reports from Washington. There was another filmed sequence of Presidential Candidate Robert Taft happily listening to a eulogistic speech by Senator Everett Dirksen, and some biting realism in a 15-minute documentary of a day in the life of Fox Co., 19th Regiment, 24th Division in Korea...
Cameramen Wanted. Two camera crews - one in Washington, the other in Europe - are working exclusively for See It Now. Others are hired as needed for specific requirements. But Murrow thinks that TV will have to train its own cameramen to look for the offbeat and unusual. Says he: "There's no sense our trying to be on top of the news with a weekly show...
Accolade Granted. Radio-trained Ed Murrow misses the flexibility of his old medium, where "with the help of a listener's imagination you can tell a story with 200 words in 45 seconds. The same story, translated to TV, may take ten minutes to create the same impact." But there are compensations: a camera crew sent out to Paramus, N.J., where a school building program was hamstrung by a shortage of steel, was able to return with hundreds of feet of film showing plenty of steel being used in the construction of nearby movie theaters, restaurants and apartments...
...collecting material, lining up writers. Pulitzer Prizewinner Robert E. Sherwood wrote the lead piece on history's "most unnecessary, most senseless and deadliest" war. The A.P.'s Hal Boyle reported the Russian A-bombing of Washington (which had "destroyed the heart of the city"), Edward R. Murrow, the A-bombing of Moscow. Lowell Thomas watched U.N. paratroopers "chute into the Urals" and destroy the Soviets' A-bomb stockpile, and Hanson Baldwin charted the three-year war's strategy. In his usual slick style, Philip Wylie wrote the love story of a Russian girl, who had been...