We use Optical Character Recognition (OCR) during our scanning and processing workflow to make the content of each page searchable. You can view the automatically generated text below as well as copy and paste individual pieces of text to quote in your own work.
Text recognition is never 100% accurate. Many parts of the scanned page may not be reflected in the OCR text output, including: images, page layout, certain fonts or handwriting.
NBC on "Operation Deepfreeze" T„ .he National Broadcasting Company has scored one international "news beat" after another on the current American expedition to the Antarctic. The NBC News Department provided the first photographs of the ex- pedition, the first tape recordings and the first motion picture film, both in color and in black-and-white. These exclusive reports have been the work of William B. Hartigan, NBC correspondent-cameraman who accompanied Admiral Richard E. Byrd on his latest tour of exploration to the South Pole. The ex- pedition, which the United States Navy calls "Operation Deepfreeze," represents the first major phase of Amer- ican participation in the International Geophysical Year. Hartigan's reports have covered every aspect of the expedition from the jumping-off point in New Zealand through the ice-breaking work of the U.S.S. Glacier, the arrival at McMurdo Air Base, a rescue of a group whose plane had crashed, a dramatic flight over the geographical South Pole, and the landing of four large Navy planes on an ice runway in McMurdo Bay after an historic, non-stop 2,550-mile flight from New Zea- land. Hartigan's filmed reports have appeared on NBC- TV's "News Caravan," "Today," and other shows. His tape recordings have been broadcast on such programs as NBC Radio's "News of the World," and WRCA's "11th Hour News." Still photos made from his film clips were the first of the expedition to be provided to the newspapers and wire services. Films Used in NBC-TV Documentary Hartigan's exclusive film was also used in NBC-TV's full-hour, all-color documentary program entitled "Ant- arctica: Third World." The program pointed up the long-range significance of the fact that the Antarctic, unlike the "Old World" of Europe, or the "New World" of North and South America, is largely unexplored. The program showed the human story underlying the scientific effort to tame a continent. The camera recorded the struggle of men working, traveling, and living under severe Antarctic conditions. Some of the most memorable footage of "Antarctica: Third World" was shot by Hartigan when he joined two New Zealanders on a 112-mile hike along the McMurdo shoreline, dragging behind them two sleds with 700 pounds of gear. During the hike, Hartigan injured his knee so severely that he was forced to stay behind while the other two went ahead for help. Turning the camera on himself, he recorded his lonely vigil in the icy wastes. When his companions became overdue, he speculated aloud, sound-on-film, as to whether they might have met with an accident and Photos on these pages are taken from film record of NBC's William B. Hartigan. This shows U.S.S. Glacier off Antarctic coast. Rescue of crew of this reconnaissance plane which crashed in Antarctic waste was filmed by Hartigan. Two men were hurt in crash. 24 RADIO AGE