Word: newsreels
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...AFFAIRS), it also got a blunt warning. The 175 Washington newsmen who gathered in the Department of the Interior's auditorium were told that the H-bomb pictures and descriptions of them were not to be released until April 7-a full week away-so that magazines and newsreel producers would get an even break with the daily press, radio and TV. But within 24 hours after the briefing, H-bomb pictures and descriptive stories were spread over papers across the U.S., and were on every radio and TV network. It was, said the New York World-Telegram...
From Raisins to Baked Ham. By starting time, they numbered 37 in all-newsmen, photographers, a radio broadcaster (who made tape recordings of birdcalls and water sounds along the way) and newsreel cameramen, as well as bird watchers and nature lovers of every hue and stripe. The Justice, an oldtime Western mountain climber, set a brisk pace. Despite wet brush and the fact that the old canal path was washed out in sections, the motley group seemed to enjoy itself...
Keeping his comment to a minimum, Murrow made his show largely from newsreel clips of McCarthy in action on the rostrum and the committee bench-a contrived but effective record of arrogance and assumed martyrdom, of half-stifled belches and heavy-handed humor. Radio & TV men spent the next day congratulating each other that the networks had, for once, shaken off their habitual timidity...
...summaries or incomplete versions of it. The Committee should not be allowed to say, through its Chairman or otherwise, that 'we have evidence of' so and so, unless that evidence is produced in an open hearing." 5.) A witness should not have to submit to radio broadcasting, television, newsreel cameras or any other form of recording or reproduction other than ordinary stenographic transcripts. "It is high time that we recognized and accepted the fact that legislative investigations are not a part of show business. Witnesses should not be required to testify in order to provide a spectacle for the public...
Communist Correspondents Alan Winnington and Wilfred Burchett, serving as stage managers, did their best to liven the proceedings: "Hi. Al. Hello, Dick, how's everything?" But as prisoner after prisoner stood before the TV and newsreel came:as. each repeated the same, dull set piece: "We believe that our greatest task is to keep the peace and win democracy for our people, but if we return, our voices would be silenced. That is why we are here...