A documentary on guerilla warfare in South Vietnam, narrated by Dane Clark.  Filmed on location by M. Fujita Associates, a Japanese company.

Cameras cover the biggest war in the world today. Yet, as confirmed, it is not a war at all, but a succession of lightning thrusts and sudden deadly strikes that is slowly bleeding a nation to death. It pits against each other the two titans of world power. It is a conflict that the U.S. must win. 
                     

October 11th, 1961-August 26th, 1963 (NBC)  
NBC newsman David Brinkley covered a wide variety of topics during its two-season run. Brinkley appeared live and filmed segments were also featured. 

"Haiti." A report on the dictator government of Francois Duvalier. 
David Brinkley interviews Dr. Duvalier. Coverage includes the presidential palace, the plush hotel Oloffson, the market place and slums of the capital city of Port-au-Prince. Brinkley reviews the political unrest in the state and talks with former place public relations man Herbert Morrison.

Part 1 of 2 parts.

Host: David Brinkley.                                                                          

1962-1964 Syndicated.

Mike Wallace narrates biographical retrospectives of notable people. This syndicated filmed 65 half-hour program series was one of the first to be produced by David Wolper. 

The life and career of General George Patton are profiled.

Narrated by Mike Wallace.



                                                           

September 27, 1960 - June 4, 1963

BELL AND HOWELL CLOSE-UP! a series of reports produced in the main by ABC News' newly formed CLOSE-UP! unit headed by John Secondari, but often by Robert Drew and his team at Drew Associates in association with Time, Inc. Of particular  interest is the fact that John Daly, ABC's vice-president of News and Public Affairs, resigned in protest following the broadcast of Drew's "YANKI NO!" Daly, who in 1953 had become that network's first nightly TV nightly news anchor quit his ABC post in disagreement with the network's  new practice of farming out documentay assignments to independent producers.
 
Unfortunately for Robert Drew Associates, which were creating a new way of making documentaries ('DIRECT CINEMA'), only five different documentaries from his company, three of them filmed by documentary cinematographer Richard Leacock, were broadcast in total (one a two parter) from December 7, 1960 to May 16, 1961.

"YANKI NO!" broadcast  December 7, 1960

"X-PILOT" broadcast February 6, 1961

"THE CHILDREN ARE WATCHING" broadcast 
February 16, 1961

"ADVENTURES ON THE NEW FRONTIER broadcast 
March 28, 1961

"KENYA: LAND OF THE WHITE GHOST, part  1" broadcast
May 9, 1961

"KENYA: LAND OF THE WHITE GHOST, part 2" broadcast
May 16, 1961 


"MONEY FOR BURNING," A documentary about the Secret Service (protecting the president from harm and protection of US money from counterfeiters). 

Deputy Chief Paul Paterney and agent Richard Roth describe and then raid a counterfeiting distribution center. Undercover agents explain their roles and methods. Tips on spotting bad bills are also offered. Interestingly, in 1962 five hundred thousand dollars' worth of bogus bills was passed in the USA. Three and a half million was intercepted before it went into circulation and 737 do-it-yourself currency producers were arrested. 

Narrated by Oscar Rose.  

Sponsored by Bell and Howell.                                                  

October 11th, 1961-August 26th, 1963 (NBC)  

This program was the winner of both an Emmy and Peabody award in 1962. NBC newsman David Brinkley covered a wide variety of topics during its two-season run. Brinkley appeared live and filmed segments were also featured. 

Topic: "Haiti" part 11. 

NOTE: See ATA#14080 Part 1 for more details.                                                

A documentary on Nazis and extreme right-wing groups operating in the US today. Included are interviews with George Lincoln Rockwell, the leader of the American Nazi Party who claims he will gas the Jews after he becomes the President of the US in 1972. 

Broadcast on WBAI radio in New York City.           

A repeat of a rare July 15, 1962 broadcast for its time. A round table discussion by eight male homosexuals discussing their lives and loves.     

Moderator: WBAI Public Affairs Director, Dick Elman. 

To humanize homosexuality, Randolfe Wicker brought together a panel of eight homosexuals to speak as they would speak to each other. WBAI public affairs director, Dick Elman moderates a discussion recorded at a Brownstone home in NYC on the West Side. 

NOTE:

In early 1962, WBAI New York’s listener-supported “progressive" radio station aired an hour-long special, “The Homosexual In America.” It featured a panel of psychiatrists who described gay people as sick and in need of a cure — a cure that they could provide with just a few hours of therapy.

Gay Activist and founder of the “Homosexual League of New York” Randy Wicker was livid, not only at the ignorance of these so-called “experts,” but also because, once again, there was a panel of straight people talking about gay people they didn’t even know.

Wicker went to the WBAI studios and confronted Dick Elman, the station’s public affairs director. “Why do you have these people on that don’t know a damn thing about homosexuality? They don’t live it and breathe it the way I do. … I spend my whole life in gay society.”  Wicker demanded equal time and Elman agreed, provided Wicker find other gay people willing to go on the air as part of a panel.  When plans for the program were announced, the New York Journal-American went ballistic. Jack O’Brian, the paper’s radio-TV columnist, wrote that the station should change its callsign to WSICK for agreeing to air an “arrogant card-carrying swish.”

The broadcast titled “Live and Let Live,” featured Wicker and seven other gay men, identified only as Harry, Jack, Bill, Peter, Marty, and two others, talking for ninety minutes about what it was like to be gay.  They talked about their difficulties in maintaining careers, the problems of police harassment, and the social responsibility of gays and straights alike. The program’s host guided the programs with questions to the panel. “Is there harassment?” he asked. One panelist described some of the police harassment he had experienced, when one officer “roared up, jumped out of the car, grabbed me, and started giving me this big thing about ‘What are you doing here, you know there are a lot of queers around this neighborhood.’ He said, ‘You know, there’s only one thing worse than a queer, and that’s a nigger’.” (Remember this was 1962.)

The New York Times’s  called the program “the most extensive consideration of the subject to be heard on American radio” —  
   
A week before the broadcast, Jack O'Brian, a "right-wing" columnist for the New York Journal American, attacked it as an attempt to present "the ease of living the gay life." Wicker made the rounds to Variety, Newsweek, and The New York Times informing them of the broadcast and the attack on it by O'Brian. The 90-minute program, believed to be the first such in the United States, aired on July 15, 1962. Several mainstream media outlets, alerted by Wicker, covered the broadcast, which received favorable treatment in The New York Times, The Realist, Newsweek, the New York Herald Tribune, and Variety.

As a result of the publicity, from 1962 through 1964 Wicker was one of the most visible gay people in New York. He spoke to countless church groups and college classes and, in 1964, became the first openly gay person to appear on East Coast television with a January 31st appearance on The Les Crane Show which was recorded at the time of the original broadcast by Phil Gries founder and owner of Archival Television Audio.

 Wicker is credited with organizing the first known gay rights demonstration in the United States. 
                                                                       

1963 TV movie. 

Once the heart of Soviet Russia and the center of the communist world, The Kremlin embodies the rich and fascinating cultural heritage of Moscow. This was the first time ever that an American film crew was granted permission to enter and discover the rich treasures and history of the government and system whose ideology swept through half the modern world in the 20th Century.

Edwin Newman narrates.                      

Recollections and music of World War 1.  

BBC Production.                      

October 11th, 1961-August 26th, 1963 (NBC)  

This program was the winner of both an Emmy and Peabody award in 1962. NBC newsman David Brinkley covered a wide variety of topics during its two-season run. Brinkley appeared live and filmed segments were also featured. 

Topic: Vignette On Las Vegas.

Host: David Brinkley.                                                             

The Senate Sub-Committee on Un-American Activities (1955-1956)
investigation of Pacifica radio as a possible front.
             

A special on negro discrimination.            

A special about the problems with mail-order guns.            

A three-hour report on the current battle for civil rights and its historical background. Included are interviews with black leaders Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr, Malcolm X, Roy Wilkens, A. Philip Randolph, Harry Belafonte, and Jackie Robinson. Also appearing are Governor George Wallace, Governor Nelson Rockefeller, Orval Faubus, Bruce Catton, George Romney, and William Scranton. Also heard is Mississippi Governor Ross Barnett. An Emmy nominee as "Program Of The Year.". 

Heard is a promo for the NBC Huntley-Brinkley report. Promotion of new half-hour report.                                                  

"Battle Line Iwo Jima." Jim Bishop. Comments by both sides in the conflict.                        

September 30th, 1963-September 28th, 1964 (NBC)

Joseph Cotton hosted and narrated this documentary series about American movies. 

Host: Joseph Cotton.   
                                  

September 30th, 1963-September 28th, 1964 (NBC)

Joseph Cotton hosted and narrated this documentary series about American movies. 

Host: Joseph Cotton.   

Part 2 "Sirens"                                                

CBS special presentation. A look at the American funeral. Based on the book "The American Way Of Death" by Jessica Mitford. 

Host: Robert Trout.                         

Documentary nominated for an Academy Award, about the American involvement in World War 1. Produced by David Wolper.

Narrated by Richard Basehart.                          

September 30th,1963-September 28th,1964 (NBC)

Joseph Cotton hosted and narrated this NBC documentary series about the American movies.

The world of the screen musical starting with The Jazz Singer 1927, with emphasis on the big screen musicals of the 1930s and the dancing duo of Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers.





                            

Richard Boone narrates. Robert Russell Bennett composed and conducted the score for this look back at what Americans experienced during the early 1950's in war torn Korea. Produced and directed by Donald B. Hyatt and written by Richard Hanser.  

Duplicate of #554.           

Joseph Cotten narrates a profile of 50 years of motion picture comedians.             

1963- (Syndicated) 

Half-hour filmed documentary series on great historical events of the twentieth century. Narrated by John Ireland.   

On this episode: The Charles Lindbergh baby kidnapping is remembered and a crime in the 1930s review. (Contains 1932 NBC news on Charles Lindbergh.          

A documentary drama about Hollywood rackateers.          

A profile of President John F. Kennedy Jr, assassinated on November 22nd, 1963.                        

October 20th, 1957-September, 1969

Walter Cronkite hosted this Sunday-evening documentary series, that presented filmed reports on a wide variety of historical and scientific subjects. In January of 1967, the show's title was changed to The Twenty-First Century.

Tonight: "The Plot against Hitler," part 2, Walter Cronkite narrator.

This telecast focuses on the July 20, 1944 plot to assassinate Adolf Hitler. Key conspirator Count Klaus von Stauffenberg had the task of killing Hitler. We are introduced to plotters' trials which took place at the time. Newsman Daniel Schorr interviews Countess von Stauffenberg and Axel von dem Bussche, a resistance associate of the count. 
                                               

A look at the sinking of the ship Lusitania on May 7th, 1915, after taking a direct hit from a German U-boat submarine without warning, sinking within twenty minutes. The story is told by survivors and members of the U-boat crew.  

Narrated by Robert Ryan. Music by Morton Gould.                                                  

          On the eve of D-Day's 20th anniversary, "CBS Reports" presents former President of the United States, & General, Dwight D. Eisenhower's remembering on-the-spot recollections of the invasion, its planning and its execution. News films of the actual fighting at the various locations are interwoven into each segment. The former President is accompanied on his tour of the battle sites by Walter Cronkite.  

The tour starts at his former head-quarters at Southwick House, near Portsmouth, England, where the General stands before the original war map and explains the strategy of the invasion. Then, recreating his D-Day-plus-one cross-channel voyage of June 7, 1944, Eisenhower boards the HMS Ghurka. 

During stops a Pointe du Hoc, where U.S Rangers knocked out German gun emplacements, and Omaha Beach, Eisenhower pays tribute to the courage and ingenuity of the men in the Allied command. He also vists the area of the Ste. Mere Eglise air drop...the artificial ports created at Arromanches and the interminable hedgrows. The tour also includes a visit to St. Laurent Cemetery, where many of the participants are buried.                

Joseph Cotten narrates.   

A look at famous film monsters and the actors associated with them.                                    

Joseph Cotten narrates.   

A look at famous film monsters and the actors associated with them.