Amanda Emily
An unfortunate coincidence
[ed note: a cross-post of a thread I originally posted over on b-roll.net] Another one of those bits of history. I’m posting this one early since many of you will probably be seeing quite a bit of this particular news story next Wednesday since it is the 70th anniversary of the bombing of Pearl Harbor. […]
Read More →1970s CBS Operating Standards
Since its “Ethics Friday” over in the TV News Storyteller’s group, here’s some ethics from the past. Among my files is a copy of the 1971 CBS Operating Standards for News and Public Affairs that I transcribed for everyone’s perusal. This particular memorandum was intended to restate the applicability of written CBS policies that dated […]
Read More →44 years ago…
On November 30, 1967, Hearst released its final newsreel. The reel itself was released under various names from 1914 to 1967, including “International Newsreel”, “Hearst Metrotone” and “MGM News of the Day.” The Hearst outfit was also where CBS acquired its camera crews for Ed Murrow’s See It Now. Some of the posts I have […]
Read More →“Tornado Hits Town”
Just as Alley’s USS Paney story made an impact on many young cameramen when it was first shown, here’s a story from 1973 shot by Darrell Barton of WKY-TV that evidently made a mark on its respective generation. [Edit: As a update to this post, I have the physical 16mm newsfilm this story is on […]
Read More →The end of an era
One of the last of the surviving newsreel men and early NBC staff photographers, Bill Birch, died just a few days ago at the age of 93. Its likely you’ve seen some of his work, whether it was the Blues Brothers or NBC’s films of the 1957 Little Rock desegregation protests. But recognizing his name […]
Read More →Murrow-Era Ethics
To beat Matt Mrozinski’s “Ethical Friday” posts early – a policy from the Murrow-era of CBS: “[T]here shall be no re-creation, no staging, no production technique which would give the viewer an impression of any fact other than the actual fact, no matter how minor or seemingly inconsequential. The only way there can be certainty […]
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