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TV host detained
Master Sergeant Stuart Queen is
detained and escorted from the set of The Big
Picture in an episode of the Army's weekly television program dramatizing
the Army's war gaming.
Peter Anderson asked, "I vaguely remember the host of 'The Big
Picture' being escorted from the set by military or Pentagon police, and the
episode going to commercials. Did this occur, and when and to whom if it did
occur?" Stephen Brittenham of Albuquerque supplied the answer, with a link to
YouTube. "I think this may be what he is referring to:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Eczdl5pBiFg&feature=related." This episode,
"The Aggressor," appears twice in The
Big Picture catalog at TV 362 and TV 555.
The Big
Picture Catalog
"Is there a comprehensive list of when each episode
of The Big Picture was released?: asked John Simpson of Kennesaw, Georgia.
"I see on the website an occasional reference to episode so and so being in the
1962-63 season." The answer is a partial "yes." A compilation of
annual catalogs of episodes of The Big Picture lists production numbers, titles
and in many cases other information, but the list is still incomplete.
Click
here to see the catalog.
Cameraman Bernard J.
Shapiro
"Did a SHAPIRO,BERNARD J. ever work as an Army
cameraman in Vietnam?" asked Roger Hawkins, formerly with the 221st Signal
Company (Photographic) in Vietnam. "Looking for a guy that filmed the
return of a rescued Air Force pilot." Shapiro is listed on our
Personnel Roster with Studio Branch, but we
don't have any more information. It you can answer the question, send an e-mail to the Webmaster.
Cameras for atomic tests
Coverage of atomic tests in the 1950s was a classified
assignment for Army Pictorial Center personnel.
Ernest C. Baumert
helped make it a success. As chief of Maintenance and Engineering
Branch for APC, Baumert designed the remote, sequential camera array and
operated cameras at the tests.
Baumert with a camera in the maintenance and engineering shop.
Yesterday's Headlines
Headlines, stories and photos that previously
appeared on this home page may have moved to Yesterday's Headlines, where you
can still find helpful links.
Commander's
secretary
Sgt.
Bilko
Main Stage
Television
Who was
Norton S. Parker?
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APC / SCPC
Help!
Yes, we still need
your help to answer the questions about SCPC/APC and films made
there.
Is that
Truman Bradley showing us how to select and pack an animal
in 1943 training films?
A WWII
re-enactor seeks information about Signal Corps Field Caption
Cards.
"It is quite rare and information is
scarce." Someone has acquired a WWII Oneida Photographic
Lab Trailer and is seeking information, manuals, or photos.
It isn't an
SCPC connection, but an Army photograph led Lisa R. Gerardi
here in her search for records made by her grandfather, PFC
Bernie Rattet.
Who was
Jerry, the editor on "Public Shelter Living: The Story of
Shelter 104"?
Was Dorothy
McManus the original Emmy, the model for television's top
award?
Did anyone ever
respond to the a question about the film, "Invasion of Poland,"
asks researcher Jeff Grehan.
See if you can answer any of the questions on the Help page.
Artifacts sought
Alumni of Signal Corps
Photographic Center / Army Pictorial Center have been asked to donate
artifacts to the
collection at the Museum of the Moving Image.
Collection Curator Barbara
Miller wrote, "We would be very interested in collecting 'artifacts' from
former SCPC/APC staff. These would include cameras (not necessary that they
be in working condition) and other technical equipment, photographs,
scrapbooks, manuals, or any other objects used in the production or
promotion of media created by the military. We have a fairly significant
group of objects related to the APC in our collection, and are committed to
preserving APC history through collecting and exhibiting this material.
Please note we do not collect moving image media (i.e. film and video), only
objects related to their production, promotion, and exhibition."
If you have artifacts you can
offer to the museum, send a note
to this site's Webmaster.
Visit the museum website at
http://www.movingimage.us/
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