I think you have to take into account the sweep of the entire presentation. There is a [b}lot[/] of history covered. It is sometimes easy to forget just how big the Pacific War was and everything it entailed. With this in mind, Victory at Sea was originally presented as more a episodic TV series, than a documentary. If that makes sense. The narrative (the narrarator's pronunciation of some words bugs the hell out of me, too) is more overview than textual history and this was one of the first television documentaries, ever.
I will have to disagree with the music thought. Rogers score is classic and I think fits the presentation perfectly. Perhaps you consider the presentation jingoistic. Well, to each his own. Yes, compared to any historical work done from World at War onward, the Victory at Sea suffers some on production.
The footage is fantastic.
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I watched it this evening with that in mind and I'll have to admit you're right. The narration does kind of sound like a bedtime story.......never noticed it before.
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