Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2004/02/26
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]> > Sonny, > > There was no film processing in Saigon. What would have been the > point? What would you have done with the film sitting in Saigon > after it was processed? You may be right, but the point would be for the field producer and/or the correspondent to oversee the editing of the package. I worked as a film editor several times for CBS when they wanted to feed from New Orlans and Baton Rouge. That was their culture. There were uplinks in the Phillipines and Hong Kong, and I think in Bangkok as well. (I've never seen anything suggesting uplink facilities in Saigon. My recollection is 60 minutes had enough stature to have warranted satellite feed time. That the satellite time was dear is the reason they would have edited as close to point of issue as possible, to save expense of raw footage being sent on a bird or the two days of getting. Stuff was happening pretty fast. > Anyway, what I was pointing out was that the idea of the North > Vietnamese gaining any timely information from either Sixty Minutes > or the CBS Evening news is pretty preposterous. I'm not sure I agree with that; read what Mike Marriott says: "It was 40,000 soldiers and their families fleeing. It was the most incredible footage. I had never seen an entire army in flight, without firing a shot. They had ducks, pigs on the back of their tanks. Anything and everything they owned was strapped to their armored personnel carriers and tanks. So everyone knew. All (the Communist troops) had to do was watch CBS back here, to know that now half the country was gone." http://tinyurl.com/34foe Sonny - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html