NAEB Newsletter (February 1, 1966)

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^ Jay Rayvid, program manager, WQED, Pittsburgh, has been promoted to executive director of broadcasting operations. He re- r places Gregory Heimer who has left for graduate work at UCLA. ^ Sam Silberman has replaced Rayvid, and his duties as production manager have been assumed by David A. Silvian, formerly with the producing-directing team. ^ Raymond Fielding, film professor and author at UCLA, has joined the staff of the University of Iowa where he will teach courses in film history, production and tech¬ nology, and will supervise the film research program. ^ Walter Goldschmidt, professor of an¬ thropology at UCLA, who prepared the NAEB’s well-known radio series Ways of Mankind, has accepted authorship of an American Library Association reading guide on cultural anthropology. ^ Ted Nielsen has returned from the Uni¬ versity of Michigan to the University of Wisconsin, where he has become director of ITV production. Gary Gumpert has been named director of ITV utilization. ^ Mary W. Avery, archivist at the Wash¬ ington State University Library who writes a weekly program for KWSC, has written a history of the state, Washington: A His¬ tory of the Evergreen State. PROGRAMS ^ “Ofoeti” is the second play of the WQED original play contest last year to be chosen for production. Written by poet and Bucknell professor John Wheatcroft, it is about a youth spellbound by imagina¬ tive myths and confused by the adult world around him. ^ KRMA-TV, Denver, has inaugurated a new locally produced children’s series, Tom¬ foolery. Aiming to encourage the viewer to use his imagination as he goes through the daily routine, the program will invite boys and girls to the studio to investigate objects, people, and “things.” Sometimes the young¬ sters may be in an empty studio with noth¬ ing to occupy their time except a bunch of feathers, a cash register, a policeman, or a ballet dancer. Cal Rains will produce and direct the program. ^ Facet is a new weekly series on WTTW, Chicago, featuring unusual programs on the area’s fine and popular arts. Members of the station’s producer-director staff will produce the series on a round-robin basis, with each staffer given a free hand in choosing the subject matter and technical treatment of his programs. \ The University of Connecticut an¬ nounces that a TV series on refinishing fur¬ niture stimulated over 400 viewers to write. The program was broadcast over a New Haven commercial station Sunday mornings at 11. \ Secretary of the Interior Stewart Udall and U. S. Senator Gaylord Nelson were among the group which recently viewed the pilot program of a proposed TV series, Vanishing America. The pilot was produced by WHA staffers along the Wolf River in Wisconsin, with Karl Schmidt as producer, Ohio University Television Presents Merlin the Magician and Friends Merlin the Magician proves thrice week¬ ly on WOUB-TV, Athens, Ohio, that ETV need not be dull and uninspired. The pop¬ ular children’s program is the brainchild of Presley Holmes, director of TV, and Jack Boone directs as Bob Falkner portrays the ancient wizard. During its first year the program presented over 250 tricks—each one augmenting a planned 'learning situa¬ tion. That the program is popular is proved monthly by Merlin’s bulging sack of fan mail—from children aged 5 to 75. Helping Merlin in the cast are Sir Echo, who lives in a vase and is “invisible,” a 210- pound English Mastiff, who appears in the castle to inform children of proper pet care, and Chauncey the clown. TOP: Bob Falkner, as Merlin, introduces Bob¬ by Gall to Donna, the Magic Dove. Previous¬ ly Donna had material¬ ized from a silk and then vanished in mid¬ air for her young guest. RIGHT: King Arthur's royal conjurer causes a young motorist to blast off into orbit. After a quick substratosphere flight, the youngster will return to terra fir- ma and drive away in her toy automobile. This is Falkner's modern ver¬ sion of the traditional princess floating in the air. FEBRUARY, 1966 3