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Onetime newsreel cameraman-Larry O'Reilly, first U.S. studio photographer to cover the Highway, brought home and boiled down some 30,000 ft. of scoop. His honest excitement both on location and in the cutting room give the film its crisp, uncommon energy. Most notable is O'Reilly's success in depicting two essential opposites simultaneously: 1) the obstinate, difficult bucking of tremendous obstacles (mud, wilderness, green crews who had to be trained on the spot); 2) continuous, violent, swift movement northwards (with the camera leaping from planes to trucks to trains to boats to bulldozers...
...news scoop, the News Chronicle's scolding had a certain cold-muttonish quality. It would have carried more validity many months ago, when U.S. soldiers first arrived in the United Kingdom, and the Tommies certainly found them too cocky, too well-heeled, too fresh with the girls...
...here, men. I want you to get in there and WRITE." And this week's scoop will make it worth your while or my Radar ain't reflectin...
...Said Missouri's neat, grey Harry S. Truman: "Tremendous sums of money are simply being thrown away with a scoop shovel. . . . [The Army & Navy] know how to waste money better than any other organizations I have ever had anything to do with...
...Sound Scoop. For 18 days, during the crisis, Kaltenborn scarcely left the CBS studios. He made 102 broadcasts of two minutes to two hours each. Able to trans late Hitler, Daladier and Mussolini as they came hot off the short wave (luckily there were no sun spots to destroy reception), he gave the radio public an instant summary of their talk and its meaning. The U.S. public had never listened so widely or so intensely to radio news before, and it bought more receiving sets during the crisis than in any previous three weeks of radio history...