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.

Sergeant Major Alonzer Bailey has been identified as one of the people in an awards ceremony photo supplied by Larry Collins.

"As a teenager from the New York suburbs, I was absolutely enthralled by the opportunity to watch movies being made," remembered Margot Evelind Greenspan Brunswick.

She met her husband there, "Pfc.Lawrence F. Brunswick, 1943-45, assigned to the research laboratory, he developed the 'T' system of measuring lens light transmission (as compared to the then-standard “F” system)."

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

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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. 

Alexander J. Malashuk was the subject of a query on the Help Requested page that produced some information about him.

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