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2 ’Victory at Sea
The series has been produced for NBC, with the full and of
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ficial cooperation of the Department of the Navy, by Henry Salomon, Naval historian and collaborator with Rear Adm. Samuel Eliot Morison in writing the 14-volume, Bancroft-prize-winning "History of United States Naval Operations in World War II."
"We have developed motion pictures for television," Salomon said, "rather than using television to exhibit motion pictures."
Secretary of the Navy Dan A. Kimball said, "We are grateful to the National Broadcasting Company, which made this series as a patriotic public service. Such a complete story has never been told before. Much of this film, up to now, has been held confidential. It is now released in the public interest." The series, Kimball added, "will establish a new high mark in television."
0 Capt. Walter Karig, special assistant to the Secretary of the
Navy, and well-known as a writer of history and fiction, worked closely with NBC as technical advisor for "Victory at Sea."
Richard Rodgers, the distinguished American composer, has written an original musical score for "Victory at Sea" totaling 13 hours of music - the longest symphonic score over written. Robert Russell Bennett arranged the score and conducted the NBC Symphony in its performance.
"Victory at Sea" has been assembled from more than 60,000,000 feet of film from the files of 10 different governments and 26 differ¬ ent agencies, including the extensive files of the Navy Photographic Center. Much of the film, including German and Japanese footage, will be seen for the first time, even by Navy personnel, according to
I Kimball.
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