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.
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.
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