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  Victory at Sea - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Victory at Sea was a documentary TV series about naval warfare during World War II that was originally aired by NBC in 26 half-hour segments on Sunday afternoons, starting October 26, 1952 and ending May 3, 1953.
The series, which won an Emmy in 1954 as best public affairs program, played a major role in establishing historic documentaries as a viable television genre.
Victory at Sea is also a band [1].
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Victory_at_Sea   (398 words)

  
 Victory at Sea
Victory at Sea, a 26-episode series on World War II, represented one of the most ambitious documentary undertakings of early network television.
The project resulted from the determination of its producer Henry Salomon and from the fact the NBC was in a position to develop and exploit a project in compilation filmmaking.
Victory at Sea went into syndication in May 1953 and enjoyed a decade of resounding success.
www.museum.tv /archives/etv/V/htmlV/victoryatse/victoryatse.htm   (912 words)

  
 Victory At Sea   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
The Coast to Coast or Sea to Sea Cycle Route (C2C) is Britain's most popular long-distance cycle route and is based on minor roads, disused railway lines, off-road tracks and specially constructed cycle paths.
A modern version of the Victory V is available in specialist shops and online, but these are a pale modern imitation, containing neither chloroform or ether.
Dark Victory is a 1939 film which tells the story of a young woman who falls in love with, and marries, the doctor who has operated on her for a brain tumor.
www.blownspeakers.com /pages3/94/victory-at-sea.html   (1691 words)

  
 Victory At Sea Online Guestbook
Victory at Sea his greatest piece of work of all times.
In any event, the Victory at Sea VHS collection is getting close to the top of the stack of VHS classics that are about to become part of my DVD library.
The "Victory At Sea" documentary captured my imagination when I was a boy and the sights and sounds of that series is still with me. I hope to find the DVD's and the CD's somewhere and recapture those moments.
www.victoryatseaonline.com /guestbook/victory-guestbook.html   (1320 words)

  
 Victory at Sea | PopMatters Television Review
While Victory at Sea tries in its way to avoid racism (the Japanese for example, are depicted as a decent people whose devotion to tradition led them astray), it is stridently nationalist.
Victory at Sea's unflinching, unapologetic view of the devastating destruction of Japan and Germany near the War's end raises some interesting questions.
In Victory at Sea's endless parade of war machines and human faces, we're granted a peek at an attitude that in 1952-'53 was still unafraid to wave its enemies' bloodied head on a pole.
www.popmatters.com /tv/reviews/v/victory-at-sea.shtml   (1174 words)

  
 Victory At Sea Concert   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
ast year's "Victory at Sea" program was a smash hit - - more than 850 supporters were on their feet, clapping along with the stirring 'red, white and blue' patriotic music from artists including George M. Cohan, John Phillip Sousa and selections from Richard Rodgers' famous "Victory at Sea" series.
ew this year is the "Victory and Vices," after-concert event, sure to please big band music aficionados, chocoholics, and connoisseurs of fine liqueurs and cigars.
General admission tickets for the Victory at Sea Concert and/or Victory and Vices are available for $30 and can be purchased through The Florida Orchestra Box Office, (813) 286-2403, or by calling the Victory Ship at (813) 228-8766.
www.americanvictory.org /special/vas2002.asp   (440 words)

  
 TANGMONKEY.COM [ REVIEW: Victory at Sea: Carousel ]
Then, the drums once again build to a frantic pitch, crashing and colliding as if horses were creaking to life and rapping their hooves against cement, as if waves were rolling water to froth, dragging you under, taste of sea salt and dust in your mouth.
Victory At Sea's music is pulsing, living, and breathing.
Victory At Sea does what I like best in music - it makes me feel.
www.tangmonkey.com /columns/102788357884033.php   (331 words)

  
 Entertainment Design: Victory At Sea   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
The third vessel in the Carnival's Destiny class, the Victory is a sister ship to the Destiny and the Triumph.
Though he likens the look of the Victory to a series of set pieces, Farcus notes that engaging passengers within the tactile environments of the ship's lounges requires use of only high-quality materials.
The recurring image of a seahorse is found on the ends of the main atrium stairways, upon shell-stone tabletops and leather barstools on the promenade, and as door handles to the restaurant.
www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m0CVQ/is_11_34/ai_67149207   (1364 words)

  
 Splendid E-zine reviews: Victory at Sea: Carousel
Victory at Sea seduces listeners with droning compositions that add a touch of math rock to systematic blasts of moroseness.
Vocalist Mona is a far cry from her days screaming in noise-rock outfit Spore as she varies from dirgelike melodies to despondent phrasings that accent Victory at Sea's tumultuous voyages through the musical waters of minor-key rock.
This Boston threesome may have an imitative sound that borrows from the Slint-styled school of varying tempos and pitches, but its innovation is instead found in the mercurial messages that spear your heart with recollections of past pain, suffering and eventual emotional resolutions.
www.splendidezine.com /testreview.html?reviewid=3217415742215035   (295 words)

  
 Item #8899495FK - Victory At Sea - Concert Band
"Victory At Sea" will also be appropriate for that patriotic or concert march spot on your next concert.
Composer(s): "Victory At Sea" was composed by Richard Rodgers.
Publisher: "Victory At Sea" was published by Williamson Music.
www.superdupermusic.com /cb/8899495.html   (342 words)

  
 Amazon.com: Victory at Sea-Collector's Set (1996) : Video   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Victory at Sea VHS ~ Victory at Sea
Leonard Grave's narration is superb as he intertwines his descriptions with Rodgers music to capture the war at sea, in the air and on the ground in theaters as diverse as North Africa and the Mediterranean to Dutch Harbor, Alaska and Okinawa in the Pacific.
Victory at Sea is unmatched in showing the role of seapower in accomplishing victory over Germany, Italy and Japan.
www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0780608992?v=glance   (1255 words)

  
 Notherby's :: Victory at Sea
Comment: This version of Victory at Sea appears to be a faithful reproduction of the original television program.
Comment: I have been watching Victory at Sea since I was a kid.
Each half-hour installment dealt with some aspect of World War II naval warfare and highlighted each of the sea war's major campaigns.
www.northerbys.com /store/B000A2XC7Q/Victory_at_Sea.html   (398 words)

  
 Linux Week :: Victory at Sea
Comment: I used to watch the Victory at Sea series on fl and white TV every Saturday morning in the 60's.
Comment: I remember being miffed when my date sat for a whole evening and watched Victory at Sea on the TV with my father instead of paying attention to me! That was 1966;we have been married 38 years, and I have matured.
A 26-episode World War II documentary, Victory at Sea is one of the most important series in the history of television.
www.linuxweek.org /B0000AQS3X/Victory_at_Sea.html   (775 words)

  
 Victory At Sea - Epitonic.com: Hi Quality Free and Legal MP3 Music   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Mel Lederman (Sugar Bitch), Mona Elliot (Spore), and Cristina Files (ex-Swirlies) got together in 1996 to form Victory at Sea, a multi-faceted Boston band who explore the oddly tuned, angular, slow-burning mathy approach with considerable poise.
The Victory at Sea sound is characterized by an elusive and attention-demanding irony, a startling intimacy, and a reassuring lullaby quality.
After recording the Easier Than Living EP in 2000, the retooled Victory at Sea returned in 2001 with a sophomore full-length, the 10-song Carousel, which offered more of the same morose guitar arpeggios, restrained noisiness, and stark vocals.
www.epitonic.com /artists/victoryatsea.html   (401 words)

  
 Victory at Sea - At Sea - November 2001   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Victory at Sea - At Sea - November 2001
With Don revving the 200-hp hand grenade on the transom of the Mako and Frank and I cranking on the little windlass at the head of the trailer, we collectively snugged the bow home.
We did this with the total cooperation of Mother Nature, who poured down torrents of special effects that included lashing rain, legions of frothy broadside seas, and a moaning of the wind that was a lot like you hear toward the end of the movie version of The Perfect Storm.
www.powerandmotoryacht.com /columns/atsea/1101atsea/index1.html   (558 words)

  
 Victory at Sea
It was a peculiarly British sort of victory, one that belongs not just to the men who fought it, but also to the efficient naval service and its vast bureaucracy; to
The British genius for war is perfectly seen at Trafalgar--the culmination of endless lines of supply and countless acts of tradition and honor: the action of a python, not a tiger.
The fate of Vice Admiral Sir Robert Calder, who had a chance to achieve a decisive victory against the fleet Nelson eventually devastated at Trafalgar, is telling.
www.weeklystandard.com /Check.asp?idArticle=6222&r=dwjsc   (522 words)

  
 Review - DVD: Victory At Sea
Inside the record cabinet that was my favorite childhood playground, alongside the Kingston Trio and Stan Getz albums, lived a series of LPs filled with powerful and dramatic orchestral music in the grooves and equally dramatic photographs of Naval battles on the covers.
These were the soundtrack albums to the Victory At Sea television series, which first aired in 1952.
Historical information with Zeros and P-47s streaking over the stormy seas and ships lobbing giant shells at one another as you munch your popcorn and sit on the edge of your seat and...
www.cosmik.com /aa-november03/ev/ev-victory_at_sea.html   (349 words)

  
 Surfline | VICTORY AT SEA
Braving continual lashings from heavy rain and wind squalls, and roving 4-5'+ wave peaks crashing in over one of the world's most dangerous reefs, Georgeson again showed the guts and graceful savvy that have become her trademarks.
It was her first WCT victory since winning the Billabong Pro Maui in Hawaii last December.
Whilst nature's storm-tossed elements forced the shutdown of power, and therefore announcements of the progressive situation and judges' scores from the contest tower 900m offshore, Georgeson held both her strategy and surfing technique together to leave her elder peer requiring 7.34 points by the end of the 35 minute final.
www.surfline.com /surfnews/2005_05_10_bbonggirls_final.cfm   (1203 words)

  
 Splendid: Departments: Pointless Questions: Victory at Sea
Victory At Sea's Mona Elliott fields a few POINTLESS QUESTIONS
Read Splendid's review of The Good Night, visit the Victory At Sea website or buy Victory at Sea stuff at Insound.
Victory at Sea make sound that is as morose as it is beautiful, as stunning as it is depressive.
www.splendidezine.com /departments/pq/victoryatsea.html   (547 words)

  
 Victory At Sea (4pc) / (B&W)
Victory at Sea, Volume IV: Midway is East
Victory at Sea, Volume XII: The Conquest of Micronesia
Victory at Sea, Volume XIX: The Battle for Leyte Gulf
www.djangomusic.com /item_bxmovie.asp?id=S015907   (170 words)

  
 Kimchee Records | Catalog | Victory at Sea - The Good Night   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Victory at Sea's third full-length The Good Night is another long day's journey into the pervading darkness.
The sadness is expressed here from the outset with a trio of furious rock songs that smolder with repressed rage and introduce an emotional landscape similar to that of their previous album Carousel.
It's a brave move, as Victory at Sea's traditionally dire lyrical concerns are musically rendered with a stark simplicity never before assayed by the band.
www.kimcheerecords.com /catalog/kc020   (208 words)

  
 Variety.com - Reviews - Victory at Sea
Originally presented on NBC as a 26-part filmed documentary of World War II naval history, the television Victory at Sea was compressed to 97 minutes for theatrical release.
Sea covers the period from the Axis' 1939 ascendancy to its defeat in 1945.
Among key points captured by the cameras are the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, the Allied invasion of Normandy, the sweep of the US fleets through the Pacific, the North African invasion, the atomic bombing of Japan and the liberation of the prisoners of Dachau, Buchenwald and other infamous concentration camps.
www.variety.com /review/VE1117796110?categoryid=31&cs=1   (262 words)

  
 A War Novel - Victory at Sea, Air Combat, the USS Ronald Reagan, Women in Combat and a Cold War History by a Naval ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Driving this war novel of victory at sea is the concentration of U.S. sea power to counter the aggressiveness of a powerful military alliance of Iran, Saudi Arabia and Iraq in a quest to control the riches of the vast Caspian Sea oil reserves.
This is a war novel of our nation’s best young men and women in combat and on the deck plates doing the tough job at sea, with constant sacrifice, heroism, honor and patriotism after ten months of enormous tension and stress.
Author’s note: Much of Humble in Victory, is derived from the author’s experiences in True Faith and Allegiance.
www.peterbbooth.com   (398 words)

  
 Victory At Sea DVD and other Home Entertainment at Dr. Leonard's Healthcare   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Victory At Sea DVD and other Home Entertainment at Dr. Leonard's Healthcare
It takes you through the entire war at sea in 26 full-length episodes.
View all the major battles and see how the Allies turned the tide to claim victory at sea.
www.drleonards.com /detail.cfm?EDP=10442762   (79 words)

  
 Printer Friendly Version - Victory at sea   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Its depiction of the more ancient notions of duty, honor, patriotism and devotion is reminiscent of what we glimpsed during live coverage of the dash to Baghdad back in April, but is now slipping from memory.
And combat on the high seas - ships meeting in duelistic engagement in open waters - represents a distilled essence of warfare that, in the hands of a morally serious man like Weir, is deeply clarifying.
Even better is the fact that the hero in his little British frigate is up against a larger, more powerful French warship.
www.nydailynews.com /news/col/v-pfriendly/story/137136p-121939c.html   (589 words)

  
 Victory At Sea War Online Television Series Homepage   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
You Are Listening To Music from "Victory at Sea" -- Courtesy Of The Official Archive of Sequences Created by Gary Wachtel...
With the Henry Salomon production and M.Clay Adams directing, the Victory At Sea series won many accolades and is still very popular today.
I also took the liberty of adding many photos from each episode using my digital camera, so come on in for a visit, listen to the music and if that was not enough, you can purchase 2 different CD's, each in full stereo.
victoryatseaonline.com   (138 words)

  
 'Master' wins victory at sea
British sea captain "Lucky Jack" Aubrey is a courageous and wily warrior, a natural leader of men, a tolerably good fiddle-player and an amusingly bad punster.
This eagerly awaited sea adventure - the first film made from the score of best-selling novels by Patrick O'Brian - is all anyone could have ever hoped for.
Like O'Brian's thickly and precisely detailed books, Weir's film revels in fascinating period imagery and sometimes-archaic turn-of-the-19th-century dialogue, along with the robust cannon fire and bloody swordplay that is the necessary fodder for any tale of action before the mast.
www.cincinnati.com /freetime/movies/reviews/11142003_masterandcommander.html   (495 words)

  
 Victory at Sea - V. 26   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
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Jennifer Aniston stars in two films with themes of adultery, with dramatic (Derailed) and comic (the forthcoming Rumor Has It) results.
A PREVIEW OF VICTORY AT SEA - V. Currently, there are not enough Tomatometer critic reviews for Victory at Sea - V. to receive a rating.
www.rottentomatoes.com /m/victory_at_sea_v_26   (287 words)

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