NAEB Newsletter (December 1, 1964)

two decades ago, was honored recently at the Nationall Elec¬ tronics Conference. • KFME, Fargo, North Dakota, reports that it has been awarded an All-Electric Building Award from Northern States Power Company. INSTRUCTION • “Electronics At Work,” produced at the South Carolina ETV Center, is being telecast this fall over ETV stations in five cities. The course, which consists of 90 half-hour films, is designed to provide instruction in the basic principles of electronics and their major applications in communication systems. Study guides and practical exercise manuals for each unit of 15 lessons are available. Write for information to Electronics at Work, Box 96, Barrington, N. J. • Noel J. Reyburn and James S. Miles of Purdue are work¬ ing on a project to use classroom videotape as a part of di¬ rected classroom observation. • Please send syllabi of courses in radio and television to Jack B. Frank, Associate Director, Instructional Television Center, State University College at Brockport, Brockport, New York. • Patrick B. Kidder is anxious to get in touch with people doing TV work in the social studies. Write him as chairman of the Social Studies Department, Hopkins North Junior High School, Minneapolis 26, Minn. STATE AND REGIONAL y The South Carolina ETV network was featured in an ar¬ ticle, “Closed-Circuit ETV Boom,” in the Sunday, October 18, New York Times. ^ The annual meeting of the Association of American Medi¬ cal Colleges in Denver, Colorado, on October 17 studied the use of South Carolina’s ETV network to further post-grad¬ uate studies for physicians. GENERAL ^ Picture windows in the east wing of Chicago’s Museum of Science and Industry bring weekend visitors within inches of interviews, dramas, and discussions being rehearsed and video¬ taped in a special WTTW studio there all day long on Sat¬ urdays and Sundays. y KTEH, San Jose, California, got program test authoriza¬ tion, on October 19 and began the same day. y KVCR-TV, San Bernardino Valley College, has been picked up 2200 miles away in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. STATION ANNIVERSARY ^ David Susskind and Charles Siepmann helped WHYY-TV celebrate its first anniversary last month. INTERNATIONAL ^ The Japan Broadcasting Corporation, NHK, recently par¬ ticipated for the first time in the annual San Francisco Film Festival, with entries in the Communication and Art cate¬ gories. PROGRAMS y The 43rd Pittsburgh International Exhibition of Contem¬ porary Painting and Sculpture is the background for the WQED original award-winning ballet, “Comment.” y Filmed reports of work being done by the world’s leading scientists are presented each week on “Spectrum,” WNED- TV, Buffalo, N. Y. NAEB Headquarters: Suite 1119, 1346 Connecticut Avenue, N.W., Washington, D.C., 20036. Phone 667-6000. Area Code 202. BOX SCORE Total AM stations 4081 (includes 38 noncommercial stations) Total FM stations 1494 (includes 293 noncommercial stations) Total TV stations 665 (includes 97 noncommercial stations) y The CBC Television Network’s approach to the Shake¬ speare sesquicentennial is “This Was a Man,” a show com¬ bining filmed scenes in Warwickshire and London and quo¬ tations from plays, poems and sonnets, tracing the boy and the man, and emphasizing the timelessness of his writing. The program tries to “see the same signs and 'hear the same sounds that Shakespeare talks about constantly.” y “Delegate,” produced jointly by WQED, Pittsburgh, and WHDH-TV, Boston, follows one delegate from each party at the national conventions. y San Diego State College’s “Profile,” a half-hour continu¬ ing series now being carried by nine ETV and commercial sta¬ tions, recently presented a three-program series entitled “In the Shadow of Greatness,” featuring dramas by three Eliza¬ bethan playwrights long overshadowed by Shakespeare. y Professor Saul D. Larks, who heads a biomedical engi¬ neering and training program at Marquette University has proposed a world-wide medical monitoring system using Re¬ lay and other communications satellites. ^ WNYC recently broadcast five programs devoted to the City Planning Commission’s Symposium, “The Future By Design.” y “Dear Mr. Scientist,” produced at Argonne National Lab¬ oratory near Chicago, consists of informal give-and-take dis¬ cussions of questions sent to the Laboratory by students across America, and of elaborations on basic scientific problems in the nuclear age. y “First Person, American,” a series done by WNYC and WNYC-FM in cooperation with the American Council for Nationalities Service, studies individual American immigrants. y WQED’s “Key to the City,” an evening program of inter¬ views with outstanding personalities, has begun its eighth year. y Two Canadian films available to the public are “Are Peo¬ ple Necessary?” produced by Metropolitan Educational Tele¬ vision Association of Canada, and “We Could Keep the Wheels Turning,” by CBC Newsmagazine. Both are offered free, the first from the Ontario Department of Economics and Development, 454 University Avenue, Toronto; the sec¬ ond from CBC Newsmagazine, 354 Jarvis Street, Toronto. y WTTW recently presented “The Foundations and the Arts,” a conversation among representatives of three foun¬ dations which use distinctly different approaches in their fi¬ nancial support of the arts and artists. ^ WHRO-TV, Norfolk and Hampton’s ETV station, recent¬ ly taped a series of ten lessons on “Space and Space Prob¬ lems,” developed and produced by National Aeronautical and Space Administration, Langley Air Force Base, Virginia. These are now available to other ETV stations. y Secretary of the Interior Stewart Udall was guest on the campus of Washington State University recently, where he was interviewed by the KWSC-TV film unit for statewide distribution on the university MOSAIC TV program. ^ WHYY-TV, Philadelphia, is presenting a new eight-pro¬ gram series, “Metropolis: Creator or Destroyer ?” studying problems of Philadelphia and other major American cities. y “All Seriousness Aside,” a new series of weekly programs produced and read by Bill Shigley of WBAA, consists of everything from the wit of H. L. Mencken and John F. Kennedy to the musical burlesque of Spike Jones. All forms of comedy are being presented. DECEMBER, 1964 3