NAEB Newsletter (Sept-Oct 1952)

- 3 - University of Oklahoma- -$8,900; "Camp Fires and War Drums”; television; Humanities. Nine films in color each ten minutes in length. Four groups of films on the dances and ceremonials of the Plains Indians: Children's Dances; Social Dances; War Dances Ceremonial Dances. Filmed in color and with multi-channel sound recording*. With th< assistance of the Sequoyah Indian Club and 3 6 Plains Indian tribes in Oklahoma. University of Minnesota --$8,900; "A Great Symphony Orchestra and the Region It Serves lf ; television; Humanities. Ten hour-long telecasts in cooperation with WCCO-TV and the Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra. The telecasts would consist of performances by the orchestra together with a series of intermission features which would review the contributions of the orchestra to the musical life of that section of the United States. The series is intended to show how television might be used in other sections of the country in developing popular support for the Humanities. University of Chicago --$6,500; several series on political, economic and cultural problems; radio; Humanities. "We propose to record on the University of Chicago campus, and present on WFMT, com¬ mentaries on outstanding classical drama; talks on political, economic, social, and cultural problems; readings from great poetry and essays; interviews with scholars from all over the world who regularly visit the University of Chicago; specially edited versions of important symposiums and lectures which occur regularly on the University campus. .- . JEFFERSONIAN HERITAGE RECEIVES NATIONAL ACCLAIM Favorable reviews in VARIETY, BILLBOARD and in countless local newspapers have greet¬ ed the airing of the first several programs in "The Jeffersonian Heritage," the 13- week series produced by the NAEB. Member stations of the NAEB which have been broadcasting "The Jeffersonian Heritage" have been extremely successful in publicizing the series through their local news¬ papers. News releases, both those issued by NAEB headquarters and by the various stations, have brought the series to public attention throughout the country. Following are only a few typical examples of what NAEB member stations have been doing across the country to publicize the series. At the University of Alabama, news bureau releases on the series have been printed i: a large number of dailies and weeklies throughout the WUQA(FM) listening area. WNYC, in New York, sends out its releases to the New York papers each week. In Wisconsin, in announcing the new series to the newspapers WHA’s director, H. B. McCarty, pointed out for feature coverage that the programs began the same day that inaugural broadcasts marked the completion of the final two stations in Wisconsin's state-owned FM network. Michigan's WUOM's bulletin, mailed to thousands of Michigan listeners, carried a full page announcement of "The Jeffersonian Heritage" in addi¬ tion to its regular program schedules. KUSD, at the University of South Dakota, prefaced its regular weekly news releases on the series with a story on the Ford Foundation grant to the NAEB which made possible the production of "The Jeffersonian Heritage." Newspaper columnists from the Minneapolis-St. Paul newspapers were invited to a special preview and luncheon by KUOM, at the University of Minnesota, to hear the first three of the series before they were broadcast. Each of the columnists de¬ voted at least one column to praise for the series along with recommendations to their readers to make every effort to hear the program.