Deluge

[George]

Question for Elsig:

Mr G, I just finished watching Deluge, which I feel was your best episode
of season 4. I was wondering, who was the one who picked all the newsreel
clips that were used, and was it your intention to use clips when you
were writing the episode?

[lgel...@gmail.com]

George,

Forget what the episode was originally entitled. but when Reynolds and
I timed the final cut, we realized that we did not have enough show.
I forget whose idea it was, but we decided to insert bits of actual
newsreel footage to add to the correct timing for the show's content
(26.20), started combing over available newsreel stuff, intercut it
with what we formerly shot and that was it.

All sounds so simple now. Probably was then, too. We were a pretty
well-oiled operation at that point in the series' life.

Thanks for asking.

LG