Word: newsreels
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...battle, Breakthrough romanticizes the hell out of war. On the level of a shoot-'em-up action film with some coincidental resemblance to the events it pretends to depict, it is a well-staged, workmanlike job. As any kind of memorial to the men who died in its newsreel clips, it is a great deal less...
...careful culling of yellowed Harper's files and a series of essays on the U.S. scene through the century by Bernard DeVoto, Gerald Johnson and Eleanor Roosevelt, Editor Allen achieved a nostalgic, perceptive review of the last 100 years that was sometimes as sharp and exciting as a newsreel. He was so well pleased with it that he ran off 75,000 copies more than Harper's normal press run of 190,000; the U.S. State Department bought 10,000 for distribution abroad...
Three other newsmen were wounded in Korea. Most seriously hurt was NBC's 24-year-old cameraman, Gene Jones, who with his twin brother Charles was taking newsreel pictures of the Inchon invasion. Soon after he hit the beach, Jones was badly wounded by shell fragments. On the Han River with Marines driving toward Seoul, 23-year-old William Blair Jr. of the Baltimore Sun was shot in the back by a sniper. The New York Times's Harold Faber was shot in the thigh while covering an Eighth Army assault across the Naktong River...
...Pointer. So far television has found no way to compete with radio's fast-breaking, flexible news coverage. Except for its dramatic United Nations telecasts, TV has contented itself with scooping the newsreel theaters. In addition to Tele-News newsreel clips, CBS-TV supplies a pointer and a relief map of Korea so that Douglas Edwards can conduct televiewers on a nightly Cook's tour of the battlefront. John Cameron Swayze on NBC-TV's Camel News Caravan explains battle positions on his map with the aid of animated planes, tanks and troops...
...week's end the Defense Department had not officially notified the Jones family that Lowell had been wounded. The shot of Lowell on TV raised the question of whether TV and newsreel companies ought to take pictures of wounded U.S. fighters before the men's families are given official notification. To any family, official notification of a casualty is grim business, but accidental notification can be grimmer still...