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Make It Sparse. Reynolds, an ex-radio & TV writer (Danger; We, the People), reached Sweden in 1950 with two American actors (Jerome Thor & Sydna Scott), an invitation from the head of Stockholm's Europa Film studios, and an idea: maybe the answer to the enormous costs of U.S. television might be found in low-budget European productions. It was by no means a new idea. Many another ambitious TVman has crossed the Atlantic to Paris and London for the same purpose. Almost without exception, they failed. Says Reynolds: "Mostly, their trouble was that they were thinking of nothing...
...first show, and only four more days to film it with the help of Swedish technicians. Then, doubling as a salesman, he flew to the U.S., showed the pilot film to Ballantine beer and, with a sponsor's contract in his pocket, raced back to Stockholm and got to work. By now, he can turn out a 30-minute show on a 5½-day schedule. He cuts financial corners by using only one camera and never reshooting a scene, and he tries to write his sparse dialogue so that a sequence can be ended at almost any point...
...Communism's refusal to let the outside world see for itself had discredited the Communist campaign everywhere this side of the Iron Curtain. But that did not mean it was a flop. Previous Communist propaganda maneuvers -the disarmament campaign of 1946, the warmonger cry of 1947, the phony Stockholm Peace Appeal of 1949-had at least a semblance of plausibility, and were designed to arouse and divide nations outside the Communist orbit...
From Paris, Stockholm, Oslo, Rio, Copenhagen, Washington, New York, The Hague and other great cities of the world, official messages of sympathy poured in to the bereaved royal family. Salutes of 56 guns (one for each year of the dead King's life) boomed from Tower Hill, and from the gun turrets of British warships on most of the seven seas. In Melbourne, Australia, a group of bellringers in St. Paul's Cathedral heard the news just as they were practicing a merry peal of welcome to Elizabeth and Philip; the bell-ringers set their bells tolling mournfully...
Other drivers, crossing natural and national frontiers, had less hair-raising or unhappy tales to tell. But most had delays and troubles. The Stockholm starters, who had to cross over on the ferry from Hälsingborg, got bogged down when a French gendarme sent them on a 30-kilometer detour. The Palermo starters, who ran into the toughest driving of all, had to ferry across the Strait of Messina and take a railroad flatcar ride through the Simplon Tunnel. They also hit fog at Florence and sleet at Milan. Though the Italians got a special dispensation to exceed...