Browse Exhibits (24 total)
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."
American memoir
12 episodes, 1961, WTTW (Chicago)
From WNET:
"The ins and outs of advertising, radio, bestsellers, architecture, and automobiles are probed, analyzed, and enjoyed by Dr. John Dodds in a new series from WTTW, Chicago. American Memoir consists of twelve richly illustrated television essays that range over a wide field of topics and a time span of more than sixty years. In an easy, conversational style, Dr. Dodds looks at the triumphs and mistakes, idols, dreams, and disillusionment of the American people as these have been reflected in our books, movies, homes, and magazines. He uses sketches and portraits prepared especially for this series; he brings back the old, phonograph records, magazines, advertisements, and even the Model T. Ford to recreate the periods and recapture the moods of the last six decades."
American politics
15 episodes, 1960, KETC (St. Louis)
From WNET:
"This 15-program series was first presented as a telecourse over station KETC and is produced for the Center by St. Louis in cooperation with Washington University. Designed to educate in the field of American politics, the programs cover the development of political parties, the theory and practice of party institutions such as the primary, the convention and the machine, and current political issues from the perspective of party record. Lecturer for the series is Thomas H. Eliot, chairman and professor of the department of political science at Washington University. Professor Eliot is a former US Congressman from Massachusetts and has had twelve years’ experience in Federal government administrative and legal posts."
The computer and the mind of man
6 episodes, 1962, KQED (San Francisco)
From WNET:
"In the 1940’s a different kind of tool was invented – a tool for extending certain powers of man’s mind, the electronic computer. It is the fast, reliable, and tireless performance of a variety of arithmetic and logical operatic is which gives the computer its great utility and power. What this exciting invention means to mankind now and in the future is the subject of this provocative series. According to a series guest Dr. Richard Hamming, research mathematician at Bell Telephone Laboratories, “The computer revolution is often compared with the famous industrial revolution in importance and scope. The industrial revolution effectively released man from being a beast of burden; the computer revolution will similarly release man from slavery to a dull, repetitive routine… computers, because they enable us to ask new questions, will enable us to get entirely new answers… because the questions are new, the answers are also new and very exciting…” Animation, art, film, and dramatic sequences highlight the series. Under a grant from the International Business Machines Corporation, The Computer and the Mind of man was produced by N.E.T. by KQED in San Francisco."
Conversations with Eric Hoffer
6 episodes, 1963, KQED (San Francisco)
From WNET:
"Eric Hoffer, philosopher and longshoreman, is interviewed in six stimulating half-hour programs by James Day, general manager of KQED in San Francisco. The conversations are based on Mr. Hoffer’s latest book, “The Ordeal of Change,” published in March of 1963 by Harper and Row."
Challenge
22 episodes, 1962-1964, Ross-McElroy Productions
From WNET:
"Produced in the various laboratories of the Argonne National Laboratories in Chicago, CHALLENGE is designed to convey the excitement of scientific research. It deals in part with the motivations that lead a person toward a career in scientific research. A number of projects, including the possibilities and development of peaceful uses for the atom, are examined. Guests who appear during the series are staff members at the Argonne National Laboratories. CHALLENGE was produced for N.E.T. by Ross-McElroy Productions of Chicago. Producer: David McElroy. Director: Clifford Braun. Writers: David McElroy and John Suchy, CHALLENGE was produced under a grant from the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission’s Argonne National Laboratories."
Escape from the cage
11 programs, 1960, WCET (Cincinnati)
From WNET:
"Escape from the Cage is a series designed to present some basic information on the subject of mental health and illness. Starting from the premise that there is a great need for correct information about this problem, the series of eleven programs presents the history of the treatment of mental illness from earliest times to today, and the techniques currently in use as well as the theories which guide research in the field. Psychosurgery, drug therapy, the open hospital, child psychology and psychotherapy, organic and psychodynamic research, are defined and described in film clips of hospitals and research centers, and by doctors and psychiatrists currently working in different areas of the field."
Heredity
9 programs, 1960, KUHT (Houston)
From WNET:
"The nine half-hour programs which make up this series are designed to teach the layman about the biological facts of inherited characteristics – heredity. The programs, which include chemical demonstrations, diagrams, and film clips, as well as living plants, animals and men and women illustrating various topics, consist of lectures by Dr. H. Burr Roney, who explains such questions as reproduction and heredity, sexuality and variation, the roles of genes and chromosomes, heredity and environment, and some fallacies about heredity."
Dr. Posin's giants
13 episodes, 1961, WTTW (Chicago)
From WNET:
"'If I have seen further than others, it is only because I have stood on the shoulders of giants who have come before me.' This quote from Sir Isaac Newton illustrates Dr Dan Q. Posin’s view of science and its cumulative nature. With the aid of sketches, photographs, blackboard chalk-talks, and a cat named Minerva, Dr. Posin (POZE-in) discusses thirteen masters of science from Archimedes to James Clark Maxwell (who predicted the existence of electric magnetic waves). The informal lecture demonstrations are designed to create a greater awareness and appreciation of some of the great achievements in mathematics, astronomy, and physics. Although Dr. Posin’s approach is frequently humorous, his aim is serious: to contribute to a better understanding of the nature and worth of science with particular emphasis on the modern applications of ancient theories and discoveries."
Dynamics of leadership
5 episodes, 1961, WGBH (Boston)
From WNET:
"This series is designed to help members of voluntary groups and organizations become more effective as members and leaders. It attempts to develop a better understanding of the principles and practices of group leadership. Each program includes practical demonstrations of leadership problems by eight selected participants and comment and criticism by Dr. Malcolm Knowles, associate professor of education and general consultant in adult education at Boston University."