The Big Picture Seven Year End Report 1958 US Army; The Big Picture TV-418 (Patreon)

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'An episode comprised of the best stories told on THE BIG PICTURE over a seven year period.'

Originally a public domain film from the National Archives, slightly cropped to remove uneven edges, with the aspect ratio corrected, and one-pass brightness-contrast-color correction & mild video noise reduction applied.

The soundtrack was also processed with volume normalization, noise reduction, clipping reduction, and/or equalization (the resulting sound, though not perfect, is far less noisy than the original).

http://www.armypictorialcenter.com/Catalog_of_the_Big_Picture.htm

THE BIG PICTURE is the official television report by the U.S. Army to its members and to the American people. Subject matter for episodes ranges from historic moments in Army’s proud history to up-to-the-moment coverage of current actions and accomplishments.

 Distribution

 Distribution of the series was broken down into two main – primary showings and secondary showings. Normally a period of approximately three to five months elapsed between the primary and secondary showings.

Primary showings of THE BIG PICTURE were made to members of the Army through the Command Information Program at each installation. At the same time, primary showings were seen over television stations throughout the U.S. and armed forces television outlets overseas.  These stations presented the series as a public service offering each week for the Armed Forces and the American public. More than 320 television stations in the U.S. showed THE BIG PICTURE with more than 40 stations overseas utilizing the series.  To provide adequate distribution on this scale, films were rotated among the stations using the series.

Following these primary showings, secondary showings were then available.  Included in secondary showings were additional Amy units desiring films for use in Command Information Programs, civilian schools, public groups and professional and civic organizations. Individual episodes of THE BIG PICTURE served as a valuable supplement for talks, presentations or training sessions. Each episode was 28 minutes, 40 seconds long on 16mm film.

 How Films Were Obtained

 To obtain THE BIG PICTURE, military users would utilize DA Form 11 -44 and forward this request to the nearest Audio-Visual Communications Center (AVCC). TV stations and other civilian users would make their requests by contacting the nearest Army installation, ATTENTION: Information Officer, the Information Officer for the Army Area in which located, or the nearest Audio-Visual Communication Center (AVCC).

After the initial request was processed the AVCC would provide civilian users with a supply of forms for subsequent orders...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Big_Picture_(TV_series)

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The Big Picture is an American documentary television program which aired from 1951 to 1964. The series consisted of documentary films produced by the United States Army Signal Corps Army Pictorial Service...

The series was conceived by Albert Gannaway Jr and David Burkey, a former television producer who served with the Signal Corps in the Korean War. He saw it as a way to use film footage accumulated by the Army Pictorial services, packaged in a way that would be attractive to commercial television. The first series of 13 episodes was broadcast on CBS in late 1951, with each episode about an aspect of the Korean War. It had positive reception from audiences and the Army decided to expand the scope as a publicity tool. Army information units from around the world suggested topics with the Signal Corps filming all the segments. Topics varied and included military history, contemporary weaponry, training exercises, cooperation with allied forces, and Army sporting activities.

The half-hour weekly program was filmed on the Astoria stages, now Kaufman Astoria Studios, which is a historic movie studio located in the Astoria section of the New York City borough of Queens. The host was Army Master Sergeant Stuart Queen (1919–1981), a World War II veteran and Korean War combat broadcaster. Though Queen is referred to as both a host and narrator, he essentially introduced and linked segments that were narrated by others. Narrators for filmed segments included Audie Murphy, Lorne Greene, Robert Mitchum, Alexander Scourby, Walter Cronkite, Raymond Massey, and Ronald Reagan. In the 1950s, the series was shot on 35mm black-and-white negative, but by the 1960s it was using 16mm color negative.

It was eventually aired on 366 television stations on the CBS, ABC and DuMont networks and ran for 828 episodes. It continued to air in syndication until 1971...