Saturday, January 26, 2013

Victory At Sea! By Richard Rodgers - High Definition Pictures & 3D!

Victory At Sea! By Richard Rodgers - High Definition Pictures & 3D! Video Clips. Duration : 15.02 Mins.


Victory at Sea was a documentary television series about naval warfare during World War II that was originally broadcast by NBC in the USA during 1952-1953. It was condensed into a film during 1954. The music soundtrack, by Richard Rodgers and Robert Russell Bennett, was re-recorded and sold as record albums. The original TV broadcasts were as 26 half-hour segments on Sunday afternoons at 3pm (EST), starting October 26, 1952 and ending May 3, 1953. The series, which won an Emmy award during 1954 as "best public affairs program", played an important part in establishing historic documentaries as a viable television genre. The project was conceived by Henry Salomon, who, while a US Navy sailor during World War II, was a research assistant to historian Samuel Eliot Morison. Morison was then writing the 15-volume History of United States Naval Operations in World War II. During this period, Salomon learned of the large amounts of film that the warring navies had compiled. Salomon left the Navy during 1948 and eventually discussed his idea of a documentary series with one of his Harvard classmates, Robert Sarnoff, a rising executive at NBC television and the son of David Sarnoff, the chairman of RCA (then the owner of NBC). NBC approved the project during 1951, with Salomon as producer and a budget of 0000 (large for that era). His team, composed largely of newsreel veterans, searched naval archives around the world, and received complete cooperation from the US Navy, which ...

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