Dreams End wrote:I'm sure there were all kinds of psyops to divert attention from our spin events in Vietnam. But even without "limpets" we still have words like "mines"
Operation Vulcan word number five to be examined per DE's good suggesion: MINE.
Why, there IS a movie from the time of Operation Vulcan although production didn't get it out to audiences until 1968 after the Tet Offensive and while the Pentagon was sitting on the story of the March 1968 My Lai Massacre of a few hundred villagers at the hands of Lt. Calley, a story that didn't break until the next year.
Instead, America got to know a much happier pile of kids.
The story was owned by Desilu Productions which failed at feature films...
...and most subsequent attempts to bring projects to the big screen were aborted, until Yours, Mine, and Ours (with Ball and Henry Fonda) in 1968. This film was a critical and financial success.
1968 is a heckuva time to make a military romance movie for family viewing.
Bet Desilu got the same boost from the Pentagon's reps that Disney did during WWII.
Remember how Hiroshima was turned into a romance movie about the pilot?
That's what 'Yours, Mine, Ours,' is, too, a romance about military, national, and family values.
You just couldn't get a warmer feeling using the word 'MINE.'I remember seeing it as a kid. Granma thought "oh, Lucy. Safe. Probably a cute dog, too."
Look at the timing, plot, and keywords of the 1968 movie, 'Yours,
Mine, Ours'
with Henry Fonda and Lucille Ball. Very non-threatening gender reps.
1968 was a presidential election year in a country already divided over the Vietnam War and this movie looks like a model for pulling together like one big family, a constant nationalist unit cohesion theme from government.
(going to use some wiki-summary info here so...)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yours,_Mine_and_Ours_(1968_film)Project start time is a little vague, either 1959 or after 1961.
And this supports the liklihood that it was conceived during Operation Vulcan under the aegis of Desilu Productions and explains the differing versions of start up in this clip-
That Lucille Ball would portray Helen Beardsley was never in doubt. But a long line of distinguished actors came under consideration, at one time or another, for the role of Frank Beardsley. They included Desi Arnaz, James Stewart, Fred MacMurray, Jackie Gleason, Art Carney, and John Wayne. Henry Fonda would finally accept, and indeed ask for, the role in a telephone conversation with Robert F. Blumofe in 1967. Miss Ball, who had worked with Fonda before in the 1942 release The Big Street, readily agreed to the casting.[2]
One account says that Miss Ball recalled in 1961 that Desilu Productions first bought the rights to the Beardsley-North story in 1959, even before Helen Beardsley published her biography. This is highly unlikely, however, as Frank and Helen Beardsley married on September 6, 1961.
More likely is the story that Bob Carroll and his wife brought the story of the Beardsley family to Lucy's attention after reading it in a local newspaper.[3] Mr. Carroll's memory must have been faulty, because he is said to recall his wife mentioning the story in 1960--again, a full year before the Beardsleys were married and probably when Dick North was still alive.
In any event, Desilu Productions did secure the rights early on, and Mr. Carroll and Madelyn Pugh began at once to write a script.
Production suffered multiple interruptions for a variety of reasons. It began in December of 1962 after Lucy's abortive attempt at a career on the Broadway stage.
>SO got the right word in the title, "Mine"
>Got the right start up time for the project, 1959-1962..
>Military theme. Navy military couple and son joins Marines at the end.
Henry Fonda's character, Frank Beardsley, is a Navy warrant officer, recently detached from the aircraft carrier USS Enterprise and assigned as project officer for the Fresnel lens glide-slope indicator, or "meatball," that would eventually become standard equipment on all aircraft carriers. Lucille Ball's character, Helen North, is a nurse assigned to the dispensary on the same Naval base where Frank is assigned.
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The film ends with Mike Beardsley, the eldest, going off to Camp Pendleton to begin his stint in the United States Marine Corps.
>Henry Fonda's role worked on the USS Enterprise - Same capitalist name used in Star Trek. 'Star Trek' with it's capitalist projection the starship Enterprise was also a Desilu production.
>Just Say No sobriety message with Court mentioned.
Lucy's drink spiked by date's sons which keeps the kooky dame image going.
Frank and Helen continue to date regularly, and then Frank invites Helen to have dinner in his home. This turns nearly disastrous when Mike, Rusty, and Greg (Tim Matheson, Gil Rogers, and Gary Goetzman), Frank's three sons, each add excessive amounts of a different alcoholic beverage to Helen's drink.As a result Helen behaves in a wild and embarrassing manner, which Frank cannot explain, until he catches his sons laughing behind their upraised hands. "The court of inquiry is now in session!" he declares, and eventually forces the three to apologize. After this, he announces his intention to marry, adding, "And nobody put anything into my drink."
>Heavy gender imaging, kooky lady, staid gentleman. Troubled daughter.
>Recruiting messages about leaving home, kooky girls
Frank brings his distraught daughter in for treatment and Helen informs him that she is simply growing up in a too-crowded house.
>Social cohesion messages about "pulling together."
The children fight the union even harder at first, and regard each other and the respective new step-parents with suspicion. Eventually, however, the eighteen children bond and make one large blended family, made a little larger when Helen discovers she is pregnant and gives birth to a boy.
>Urgings to get married when having children. Don't be a free love hippy.
....Helen discovers she is pregnant and gives birth to a boy.
Further tension develops between young Philip North and his teacher at the parochial school that he attends, because his teacher insists that he use his "legal" name (which remains North even though his mother married a man named Beardsley). This prompts Frank and Helen to discuss cross-adopting one another's children.
...THEN that big love fest at the end where the eldest boy becomes...a Marine!
The film ends with Mike Beardsley, the eldest, going off to Camp Pendleton to begin his stint in the United States Marine Corps.
The doctor on the DRAFT BOARD is family physician Tom Bosley, what a nice guy!
Guess Fred Rogers wasn't available but Bosley is perfect and will be cast as the pater familias in 'Happy Days' when restoring the image of Benign Authority was in full Reaganomic swing.
Tom Bosley as a family doctor who makes a house call on the Beardsleys in their "neutral" home. We later see this same doctor as the consulting physician for the California Draft Board when Mike Beardsley reports for a required physical exam.
I've posted the documents connecting Paramount to CIA and CBS to CIA.
Like anything else that worked they probably got the already cooperative Desilu, too, another Cuban exile asset.
