Television: Review

Such celebrated series as Air Power and Victory At Sea have shown what wonders imaginative handling can work with the heaps of celluloid that lie hoarded in film vaults. Last week NBC began showing how the same technique can pay off in an exciting sports show, The Big Moment (Friday, 9:30 p.m. E.D.T.). Put together by Hearst Metrotone News experts with Sportscaster Bud Palmer as host-narrator, the first of the half-hour series presented a fast-moving cavalcade of memorable events, e.g., Roger Bannister outracing John Landy, Bobby Thomson's pennant-winning homer for the New York Giants in 1951, Seabiscuit's 1938 triumph over War...

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