Voice of America Behind The Scenes - Dulles At USIA Exhibition

Voice of America Behind The Scenes - Dulles At USIA Exhibition VOA radio engineer at control panel; CU open reel tape recorder w/ pan up to engineer giving signal to announcer in booth; MCU Middle Eastern announcer w/ script at microphone - Voice of America in Arabic? VS announcers from vars countries w/ ‘Voice of America’ written in respective languages above microphone. CUs microphones - ‘Die Stimme Amerikas’, ‘Glos Ameryki’ etc. 20:37:38 MS Control room w/ woman operator standing at bank of recording machines - large sign ‘Recording Control Centre: The control desk for VOA recording facilities is being installed here...’; zoom in on recording decks. Woman operates disc cutting equipment - CU sticks label to record. 20:38:51 LS Capitol building - traffic in FG - pan right to governmetnn building on Mall; man up steps. INT operators standing at bank of electrical equipment w/ patch panels; CUs; laying cables along ceiling tracks. Camera up escalator, ‘Voice of America’ sign w/ arrow at top. ‘US Information Agency’ banner, pan to world map w/ signs ‘Facilities Network’ - ‘217 Posts in 77 Countries - 17 Transmitting Stations’; CU sign ‘News For The World: This is the VOA newswire. The world-side news it corries is gathered and edited in the Agency’s central newsroom. This news is now ready for adaptation and broadcast overseas by the VOA language services’; pan down to printing device. 20:40:55 VS USIA displays re Communism & Propaganda: CU graph w/ Communist China & USSR - ‘International Communist Yearly External and Internal Propaganda - $3,240,200,000’ - ‘Explaining American Policy’ - ‘Propaganda - Tool of Conquest’ - ‘Penetrate the Curtain - Radio Is Only Means’ - ‘Exposing Communist Propaganda’ - woman points to map w/ ‘Locations of 866 Soviet Forced Labor Camps’. Dulles at podium addresses staff and views displays; CUs staff inc. Black women. Cold War. Broadcasting. Anti-Communism.