So the military wasn't enlightened so much as it was desperate, and if you doubt me about that, take a listen to this priceless Army-Navy newsreel shown to servicemen around the world in 1943.
And I'm wondering if there was any contact between budding Broadway actor, yet still unknown Broadway actor, Henry Fonda and those leftist independent filmmakers who made newsreels against the march of time and for the left.
The newsreels promise him–on their honor–that the newsreel camera they have in the balcony of the courtroom will only be turned on when people aren't on the stand doing actual testimony.
During the battle for Iwo Jima, raw footage was dispatched back to the newsreel companies in New York and was ready for distribution within two weeks of the initial landings.
The room is smaller than you might expect—less than thirty-six feet on its long axis, seven feet narrower along the other—but its ceiling is high and grand, and its features match up with the photos and newsreels.