Browse Exhibits (3 total)
National Goals
6 episodes, 1961, New York University TV
From WNET:
"In December 1960 a red-white-and-blue paperback book appeared across the country, the result of almost a year of hard work and thought by a commission that President Eisenhower and established to define the problems of the coming decades. The President’s Commission on National Goals published its finding in a series of brief analytical essays collected under the title Goals for Americans. This television series, NATIONAL GOALS, is based on some of the findings.
The members of the Commission did not set up these national goals in an arbitrary fashion. Rather, they analyzed the facts of our economic, political, and social structure, and the attitudes, opinions, desires, and needs of the American people; then they stated some of the problems that these suggest. The goals, the solutions to these problems, may well not be agreed upon. They serve as targets, for achievement, alteration, or rejection. The ultimate purpose of the Commission and of this series, in which some members of the Commission participate, is to simulate discussion by presenting the facts and some conclusions that can be drawn from them. Whether these goals are accepted or rejected, and how they are achieved – that must be decided by the American people."
Science and human responsibility
23 episodes, 1957-1958, KETC (St. Louis)
From WNET:
"This series of program features distinguished persons in several fields of knowledge who will apply their powers of constructive thought to the problems of adjustment to the changing pattern of man’s life caused by the advances in scientific knowledge. The program grew out of conferences telecast by KETC, St. Louis form the Washington University campus. The conferences were arranged by Dr. Arthur H. Compton, Nobel Prize winning scientists. About half the programs are interviews-in-depth by Dr. Huston Smith of Washington University with individual participants regarding their thoughts on certain major issues considered at the conference. The remaining programs include group discussions by the conference participants."
Metroplex
6 episodes, 1961, WQED (Pittsburgh)
From WNET:
"The odds are 6 to 5 that a child born in the USA today will be born in a city. Fifty-nine percent of population is concentrated in metropolitan areas. With the growth of the city and the city complex have come problems easily recognized, but often neither anticipated nor solved. Some of these are obvious: traffic congestion, insufficient housing, poor public services and facilities, crime and urban decay. Others are less immediately noticeable: a bad governmental structure, inadequate school systems, the mixing of different kinds of buildings and functions in crowded areas, lack of parks or recreation facilities, high prices for all goods and services, and so on. METROPLEX is a series that defines the major problems of our vast metropolitan areas, and suggests ways to improve conditions or resolves the problems. The series is composed chiefly of film clips, many shot on location in Seattle, Chicago, Pittsburgh, Miami and other cities that have faced and solved difficult urban problems."