Toward the end of an otherwise dreary season, two programs last week intelligently explored the past, and by extension, the imagination. Both were produced by one man, Donald Hyatt, 36, who heads NBC's consistently effective Project Twenty (past achievements: Meet Mr. Lincoln, The Coming of Christ). Hyatt knows that the movie camera, which is almost automatically taking over TV, is not necessarily TV's best instrument, and he can get effects out of photographs that make a lot of film footage seem at once overexcited and dull.
The great advantage of Hyatt's technique, as he demonstrated in last week's The Real West,...
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