The Big Picture (American TV series)

The series was conceived by Albert Gannaway Jr and David Burkey, a former television producer who served with the Signal Corps in the Korean War.

Topics varied and included military history, contemporary weaponry, training exercises, cooperation with allied forces, and Army sporting activities.

Narrators for filmed segments included Audie Murphy, Lorne Greene, Robert Mitchum, Alexander Scourby, Walter Cronkite, Raymond Massey, and Ronald Reagan.

While the series as a regularly produced and scheduled program nominally ended in 1964, further episodes continued to be made on an irregular basis until 1971.

[4] As an official work of the United States government, The Big Picture was never eligible for copyright and has always been in the public domain, thus allowing it to be distributed far and wide without restriction.

Example of a traditional introduction to The Big Picture (Army Newsreel No. 1, TV-390)
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Screenshot from TV-372 of a Special Forces Detachment training with the U.S. Navy off the coast of Okinawa