REELS, RADIO SET FOR WIDE UN COVERAGE
BY JACK HELLMAN
  San Francisco, April 23. --
That newsreels and radio will give the United Nations conference widest coverage in history of any American event is only assured element of the entire meet at this early date. Pool of 27 cameras being administered by Office of Inter-American Affairs under direction of Francis Alstock, Jack Connolly and Frank Fouce, have been on the ground for days, and they haven't missed a single trick.
Major picture companies have 12 sound newsreel men on ground, OIAA, OWI each two; Russia and Canada have one apiece. Two special newsreels will record passing parade for United Nations theatre. There's also a slew of silent cameras focusing on every new arrival. Foreign delegates almost without exception have Kodaks hanging from shoulder straps.
Only event in newsreel history given greater coverage than this super-dooper was last coronation ceremony in London. Domestically meet will be pictorially recorded for every city,town and hamlet, and world coverage won't lag far behind. 		   

Special reels are being shot for Latin America and other allied and occupied countries. Every phase of the meeting, from commission sessions to main plenary event in Memorial Opera House will have cameras trained on step-by-step deliberations.

PETE MOLE SETS STAGE
One of the busiest men in the maze of stage settings at three main points of immediate interest to 41 national delegations is Pete Mole, who came up from Hollywood on commission by the State Department to supervise and install photographic lighting. He did such a thorough job at the recent Mexico City conference of Latin American countries he was called back for an encore.
Cameramen say blazing arc setup is almost perfect in conception and execution. Nor is beauty of highly caparisoned interior marred by those big black gargoylish generators of blazing beams. They are so arranged that maximum utility value will be derived without overheating conference rooms.

 
 

Tuesday, April 24, 1945

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