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Ralph F. Magrino served as fire chief at the Signal Corps Photographic Center from 1942 to 1944, reported his granddaughter, Betty Magrino English, adding another name to the Personnel Roster.

Does anyone have knowledge or film from a 1950s production, "Get Set, Go," or Thomas G. Macaluso, who played the xylophone or marimba with a U. S. Army combo?

Sperry Gyroscope Company is an unusual topic for a Help Request, but Dr. Jack Binder, archivist for the Town of North Hempstead, seeks photos or information.

"Invasion of Poland," a Film Bulletin produced by Signal Corps Photographic Center is the topic of a query for an Italian documentary, which also highlights the availability of the film on YouTube.

A 1957 photo shows Colonel McCrary with visiting officers including Colonel Ping-Tai Fei of Taiwan

Does anyone remember a 1950s film on conduct for captured soldiers?

Do you know anyone who served in Army television communications during the Cuban Missile Crisis? Tom Morton asks.

Information about Chief of Sound Branch Tom Hanlon is needed.

Photos of Director Vibo Valenzio are still sought both by us and by Vibo's family.

Captain Gaetano Faillace, former personal photographer to General Douglas MacArthur, is remembered by another APC alumnus, D. S. Ross.

An M1C Signal officer helmet is the subject of a request from re-enactor Robert Mary of Belgium.

Adams Kenneth, Anthony Kelly, Louis Leinbecker and Albert Rielson are sought for information about Alexander J. Malashuk and a film that Malashuk shot in Hachioji, Japan, on September 15, 1945.

Footage or photos of either the NORAD Band OR the Studio band from the late 1960s is sought by the son of John Gates, one of the bandsmen who appeared with the band in an episode of The Big Picture.

Can you help with this mystery? What was Nat Roger Knaster doing as a photographer/foreign correspondent in places like Madrid, Cairo and Italy during World War II. That's what his nephew, Fred Schock wants to know.

War-time personal recordings for postal mail exchanges, and the technology of kinescoping are topics sought by a free-lance writer developing a book about rarely defined aspects of communications' history.

Was Col. James B. Buchanan a former newsreel cameraman?, asks the curator of the Fox newsreel collection at the University of South Carolina.

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You can find films, photographs and other records at the National Archives and Records Administration. The collection is housed at NARA's College Park, Maryland, facility. Visit the National Archives online at http://www.archives.gov/

Still reaching audiences: "The Big Picture" can be seen on the Pentagon Channel.

Over 340 episodes of The Big Picture are available at Amazon.com, according to retired Master Sergeant Carl Mueller, who comments on this groundbreaking television series.