Word: newsreelers
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...Thorgersen and the News (weekdays 7:35 p.m., Du Mont) brings a veteran newsreel announcer to network TV but can't make him comfortable. Backed by the standard props of a clattering teletype machine, a Korean wall map and the usual succession of still photographs, Thorgersen nervously shuffles through news releases with the distracted air of a man who has not quite finished his homework...
...documentary trimmings. Based on the true story of Pittsburgh's Matt Cvetic, who served the FBI for nine years as an undercover agent in the Communist Party, the picture uses Communist Big Shot Gerhardt Eisler (played by Konstantin Shayne) as one of its characters, bolsters its footage with newsreel shots of the uproar and street brawls the Reds organized during 1949's Manhattan trial of eleven U.S. Communist leaders. The personal torment of the picture's hero (Frank Lovejoy), suffering the bitter contempt of his anti-Communist son and brothers without being able to let them...
...Show in New York. TV's Mac-Arthur coverage in New York went as smoothly as in Washington. Manhattan's WPIX stood by with spares ready to rush to the scene in case any of the pooled TV equipment broke down; none did. Teetering truckloads of newsreel cameramen were able to keep pace with the parade all along its route. TV's mobile units were tied to three strategic locations (Liberty Street & Broadway, Bowling Green, City Hall) by the umbilical cords of power lines plugged into convenient buildings. The MacArthur coverage showed that TVmen were learning...
...public-address system was blaring Aloha when the big plane pulled up in the glare of newsreel lights at Hickam Air Force Base at Honolulu, twelve hours and six minutes later. There were fast handshakes in the confusion of the midnight welcome, and next day, on a forty mile parade, the city of Honolulu gave General MacArthur a preview of the civic receptions to come-including more applause and cheers than had greeted Harry Truman on the way to his Wake Island meeting with MacArthur six months before...
...trials of Alger Hiss or the Communist Party hierarchy. Curious spectators stood for hours in pushing lines for seats to the small upstairs room, finally forced the committee to move down, to a big third-floor courtroom. There flashbulbs flared like heat lightning through the forest of television and newsreel cameras. From the judge's bench, mild-mannered Estes Kefauver presided with a firm hand, as Chief Counsel Rudolph Halley, an able, professionally annoying examiner, hammered at the unhappy witnesses. At Kefauver's right sat Maryland's judicial-mannered Herbert O'Conor, Wyoming's Lester...