![]() ![]() He responded with 12 short piano themes, none longer than 2 minutes. Of interest us is that Solomon signed Broadway composer Richard Rodgers (recent shows included Oklahoma! (1943), Carousel (1945), and South Pacific (1949) to write the music. Solomon had his project approved by NBC in 1951 and from the naval archives around the world assembled some 60 million feet of film this was edited down to a mere 61,000 feet for the initial 26-part broadcast. Morison, with the approval of President Roosevelt and the Secretary of the Navy, had been working on the monumental work since his appointment in May 1942. ![]() Solomon has been working with historian Samuel Eliot Morison who was then writing the 15-volume History of United States Naval Operations in World War II. Victory at Sea Title ScreenIn 1951, the researcher Henry Solomon approached his classmate Robert Sarnoff, a rising executive at NBC television, about the phenomenal amount of film that each side in the Second World War had in their stocks.
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