NAEB Newsletter (December 1, 1965)

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Retirement or Renewed Life For a TV Documentary? ^ WTTW, Chicago, celebrated its tenth year of telecasting and the dedication of its new home with two live hour-long pro¬ grams. The first, “Ten Years Old and Twice as Bright,” featured a concert and inter¬ views following a prededication dinner at¬ tended by area business, social and civic leaders. The second was the telecast of the dedication ceremonies. ^ WFBE, Flint, Michigan, has announced that many copies of its News of the Week program have been requested following the offer in the NAEB Journal [July-August, 1965, page 22]. Commercial WJRT, Flint, has given time weekly for the program to be done on TV. ^ WFBE broadcast the entire proceedings of the first regional Foreign Policy Confer¬ ence to be held in the Midwest. The con¬ ferences were held to introduce principal assistants to the Secretary of State to citi¬ zens to outline our foreign policies and their goals on a non-partisan basis, reviewing and evaluating the current international scene. This conference was the fifth and final ses¬ sion held in various parts of the country this year. ^ “Pullman Street Signs—How Not to Get There,” one program from Channel 10 Reports, Washington State University’s KWSC-TV community problems series, was honored by being shown at the na¬ tional meeting of the Radio and Television News Directors’ Association. ^ WOSU-TV, Ohio State University, was awarded an “Emmy” for the first time for its first three-hour documentary. The Co¬ lumbus chapter of the Academy of Televi¬ sion Arts and Sciences presented the award for “Ohio Has Saved the Union.” The pro¬ gram commemorated Ohio’s vital support of the Civil War and the contribution made by Ohioans, and was in production for one year. ^ WBUR, Boston University, recently de¬ voted two consecutive evenings to record¬ ings of the twelve pianists from five coun¬ tries who won the competition at the Inter¬ national Piano Festival in Montreal. One program was devoted to the two musicians who shared first place: Albert Lotto of the United States and Jean-Claude Pennetier of France. ^ WBUR has a new series, Conference Call. It is a telephone program, new to edu¬ cational radio, and will contact experts any¬ where in the country. On the first pro¬ gram, officials of the National Educational Radio Network and others concerned with educational broadcasting spoke. ^ KRMA-TV, Denver, began a new, daily, one-hour children’s program this fall. The series is varied and covers such subjects as animals, nature, music, stories, adventure, and fairy tales. ^ KRMA-TV is the second television sta¬ tion in the country to present the new U. S. —^ Public Health Service’s Medical Self-Help r training course. Following the broadcast, viewers may attend centers for practical instruction on the information learned on the telecast. —by After countless hours of preparation, after thousands of feet of film footage, after a TV series is finally completed—what then? A University of Michigan Television Center production is routed to some sixty educational and commercial stations from coast to coast. But does it then come home to collect dust in the film library? The American Negro, a documentary pro¬ duced in 1964 in Ann Arbor, is enjoying prolonged usefulness because of its timely topic and over-all standard of excellence. The series looks in depth at the current Negro revolution and examines the history of the Negro, concentrating upon his prob¬ lems, hopes, and fears. Nationally recog¬ nized experts join educators and local citi¬ zens in discussing such topics as the role of the Negro in American history, the Negro child’s search for identity, psychological barriers to> integration, the civil rights move¬ ment, the Negro church, and problems in housing, education, and employment. The ten-program series was first televised over WWJ-TV, Detroit, on consecutive Sundays at noon. Subsequently, the series was aired on some thirty TV stations, and it is still being booked around the country, with some channels requesting reruns. In addition to television, the series has been rented for a nominal fee and used audiovisually by public schools in Des Moines, Iowa, and Evanston, Illinois, as well as a dozen schools throughout Michigan. The St. Louis schools rented the series for in-service training of personnel involved in a summer anti-poverty program in educa¬ tion. The University of Western, Australia purchased the entire series for use on TV as well as in classes, and several universi¬ ties—Connecticut, Syracuse, Michigan State, and Michigan—have reserved films for classes and seminars. Various civic groups have used the Ellen Miller films: The League of Women Voters in several cities incorporated the films into their meetings on human resources; the Ann Arbor Human Relations Commission intro¬ duced a discussion series on civil rights and equal opportunity by presenting two of the films; and discussions were stimulated by the film in a YWCA group and a child study club. Several church groups—in Chi¬ cago, Detroit, Atlantic City—have used the films. To encourage use of the series in group discussions, the TV Center made supple¬ mental material available; it supplied syn¬ opses of the individual programs and recom¬ mendations for related readings to all who requested them. Recently, the University of Michigan Extension Service prepared a list of questions to be used by discussion lead¬ ers. Future implications for the series are ex¬ citing to contemplate. According to Alfred Slote, the writer-producer, The American Negro has generated interest in production of a Negro history series aimed at pre¬ school and school-age children. Project Head-Start, the Office of Economic Op¬ portunity program aimed at pre-school cul¬ turally disadvantaged children, and other similar anti-poverty projects might wish to use the films in their orientation plans for teachers and aides. Settlement houses, social agencies, and sociology classes seem likely audiences. And so it seems unlikely that this docu¬ mentary will soon retire into the archives to gather dust. • The photograph shows Series Host Al¬ vin Loving, University of Michigan pro¬ fessor of education (left), and Mel Ravitz, Detroit City Councilman and professor of sociology at Wayne State University, on camera for the eighth program in the se¬ ries, “Where Shall We Live?” DECEMBER, 1965 3