NAEB Newsletter (July 1966)

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r instruments, the station is carrying an Eng¬ lish composition credit course for the Uni¬ versity of Omaha, and also programs for pre-schoolers and for kindergarteners. y KRMA-TV, Denver, has scheduled for the summer six senior high school credit telecourses—three in science, two in his¬ tory, and one in notehand, a form of sten¬ ography. PROGRAMS y “Whatever Happened to Childhood?” is an hour-long program produced by WHYY- TV, Philadelphia, in cooperation with the local Junior League. The program explores the strain of being a child in the mid¬ twentieth century, comments on the press¬ ures of conformity and the competition for excellence, and offers insight into the prob¬ lem of vanishing childhood and the ap¬ pearance of a new breed of “little adults.” The program was produced and directed by Ed Fryers, with Ken Strange as camera¬ man. Lib Rutan wrote the program. ^ In a Canadian Broadcasting Corpora¬ tion radio series, Myth and National Cul¬ ture, Mrs. Jill Conway, social historian at the University of Toronto, traces myths from their beginnings to their implications for the wtorld today, including conscious manipulation of ancient myth for political purposes in the 20th century. -— ^ Living for the Sixties is an ETV series produced by the State University of New York to meet needs of older Americans. It considers subjects such as improving health, legislation in favor of the aging, cooking for yourself, physical exercise, and Social Security benefits. Kitty Carlisle is hostess for the first half of the series, followed by Betty Furness. In late summer, tapes and films will be available to ETV stations. ^ WFCR, Amherst, Mass., received spe¬ cial permission from Eugene Ionesco to present over the Eastern Educational Radio Network the American premiere of his one- act play, “Le Roi se Meurt” (The King is Dying). The play was broadcast over WFCR May 8 in the original French, and was carried simultaneously by WGBH, Boston, and WAMC, Albany. y Lurlean Hunter and Carmen McRae performed together on WTTW’s series Facet recently when Miss McRae was in Chicago. WTTW producer Robert Kaiser brought her and her friend Miss Hunter, who lives in Chicago, together for a half- hour of song and old-friend-type patter, called “Take Two.” It was produced by Kaiser assisted by Peter Kuttner. y WOUB-TV, Ohio University, recently presented, for the first time on American TV, the work of French poet-playwright Paul Claudel, in “A Poet, The World and God: Readings from C'laudel.” Rick Hauser w*rote and directed the dramatic presenta¬ tion. He had translated a number of Clau¬ del’s works while a student in Paris, when he became acquainted with the family. Metamorphosis of a TV Program —by Marvel Lunn To help environmentally deprived students adjust educationally, socially, and physically into the mainstream of life, Oklahoma City started an after-school program during the 1964-65 school year. This involved high school students from several of the second¬ ary schools who were willing to give up two afternoons a week, Monday and Thurs¬ day, to work with the students in grades four, five, and six in the twenty-one elemen¬ tary schools in the section of the city that is generally classified as poverty-bound. Providing an activity program with re¬ freshments kept the children off the streets or from unsupervised homes. Some of the activities were games, crafts, dramatics, stunts, and music. Between the time the ele¬ mentary students were dismissed at 3:15 and the time the secondary students arrived at 3 :45, a teacher watched the students. If the teacher kept order with the large group, it was necessary for her to have a strict discipline situation which was not always conducive to enjoyment. We at the broadcasting center of the school system were asked to provide a twenty-minute program for this period that would provide entertainment. As talent on the telecast, “Fun Time,” we primarily used studio personnel and high school stu¬ dents. Each week guests from elementary schools in the after-school program served as the audience for telecasts. They were interviewed on videotape so they could see themselves on television with their peers. The purpose of the program is changing, is expanding in its scope. The entertainment is to be merely the vehicle through which it is hoped that students who are the audience will develop a sense of being and that their level of aspiration will be raised. It is hoped that the program will not be didactic but therapeutic in nature. The success of chil¬ dren’s programs is action and variety. This makes it necessary to have several four- to six-minute segments brought together for continuity with a recurring theme or per¬ sonality. Basically the activities or parts of the program can be classified as follows: • Individuals or groups from the ele¬ mentary schools who have done something unusual or have developed a talent in the after-school program that can bring them earned recognition, such as a hobby or a skit written and produced by the students. • Cultural entertainment that will ex¬ pose them to activities that their environ¬ ment would not normally provide, such as puppet shows by the Junior League and books which will be narrated by high school speech classes and visualized by studio staff. • Community resources, such as the planetarium, the zoo, and the fair, will be filmed and introduced on the program in such a manner as to make a field trip by the entire class something desirable. • Talent whose purpose is merely to en¬ tertain will be used, such as high school in¬ dividuals and groups, to maintain interest by the elementary students and to provide the entertainers an opportunity to perform. Television has and will play a major role in the after-school program for the environ¬ mentally deprived. The role will change from an entertainment program to a pro¬ gram that has for its goal the development of character, culture, and worth in the in¬ dividual. JULY, 1966 5