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 Admiral. For change of pace, Big Moment showed a basketball-court brawl, inspected the antics of aquatic stuntmen, took a slow-motion look at a disputed football play. This week it will picture Jack Fleck's U.S. Open golf victory over Ben Hogan in 1955, the 1942 race between Alsab and Whirlaway, the Army-Navy football game of 1948 (Army 21, Navy 21), and in weeks to come, Ben Hogan's famed comeback, Jesse Owens' track feats at the 1936 Berlin Olympics, Columbia's last-minute upset of an Army eleven in 1947. In all, it promises to be a summer show with winter vigor.

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