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Like the other networks, ABC has been gradually cutting back on documentaries, but the ones it does produce are likely to be blockbusters. These have included entire evenings of prime time devoted to such subjects as education and atomic power. This Wednesday, ABC News presents a masterly three-hour chronicle of America's role in the world during the past 40 years, focusing on the cold war and U.S.-Soviet relations. Eight months in the making, 45/85 is a judiciously edited video parade filled with rare film footage, some of it broadcast for the first time. It also includes...
...goal of containing Communism has affected a wide array of decisions, including the Marshall Plan and the 1977 decision to hand over the Canal Zone to Panama (an example to Third World nations that the U.S., not the Soviet Union, is the better friend). By advertising in local newspapers, ABC was able to find color footage of Churchill's 1946 visit to Fulton, Mo., where he delivered his famed Iron Curtain speech, and of General Douglas MacArthur in Tokyo...
...collage boxes filled with such props as Hula-Hoops and the Star Wars robot Artoo-Detoo. Since the program concentrates on the U.S., it tends to highlight American mistakes and triumphs rather than those of the Soviet Union. Nevertheless, the cold war themes are handled with sophistication and balance. ABC's 40-year journey offers fresh, sometimes offbeat details about many of the terrain's landmarks and a knowing sense of how they shaped the modern world...
FOOTNOTE: *The oral reminiscences came into the hands of Time Inc. in 1970 and were the basis for the volume of memoirs Khrushchev Remembers. Time Inc. donated the tapes to Columbia University, which allowed ABC to broadcast them for the first time...
...networks station cameras with giant telephoto lenses on a hilly knob in the Santa Ynez Mountains, three miles from the presidential retreat. Even from that distant vantage point, the equipment is almost powerful enough to show how many rashers of bacon are on the Reagans' breakfast plates. This summer ABC was especially eager to capture a recuperating Reagan on horseback, so the news editors went to the sports division for an even more powerful lens...