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Home movie footage of a voyage from Cincinnati to New Orleans that Bailey took aboard the steamboat Delta Queen in early 1968. An article about her experience, "Last Call for the Delta Queen River Cruise," was published in the New York Times in May 1968. The film primarily shows the scenery as the boat cruises down the river and members of the crew working on the ship (including the captain manning the bridge). Features the Delta Queen's calliope as passengers gather to listen. Bailey herself takes a turn at the instrument. On shore, the film documents stops at historic antebellum homes, including McRaven and Oak Alley Plantation. The footage is not edited in chronological order.
The film translates the lyrics of the Beatles' song into pictures using Lower East Side locations; pixillated sequences of images portray the nonmusical sounds.
Reveals the all-too-common plight of one family living in New York City's black Harlem through the photographs of Gordon Parks. Includes the problems of inadequate educational background, restricted job opportunities, a lack of food and adequate heating, the drinking of the father and the despair of the mother, and the hostility and violence that results. Points out the importance of poverty agencies or other help, and leaves the family's difficulties unsolved.
One segment of episode 205 of PBL. Interviews industrialist Edgar Kaiser on such issues as the nation's health problems, housing needs, and capitalism. Contrasts his attitudes with those of the student generation. Indicates that Kaiser believes Medicare and Urban Renewal should be in the hands of private enterprise and business should compete in and with Communist countries.
A woman reflects on how she is able afford her groceries because she got four bars of Ivory Soap for the price of three. As she drives away, she ponders on how great Ivory Soap is.
This is an excerpt showing one segment of episode 117. Presents critical comments and views of Asian scholar and war correspondent, Bernard B. Fall. Discusses the nature of the war in Vietnam, its effect upon the people, and the possibility of a practical solution. Includes taped comments.
William C. “Bill” Smith of Oregon Educational Broadcasting, who hosts and narrates this group of programs, takes youngsters on a day’s jaunt to an Oregon “egg factory,” a dairy farm and a dairy manufacturing plant to show them that, though milk, butter and eggs still come from the same old reliable sources, the ways which they are processed have changed considerably. On a farm where 100,000 laying hens produce enough eggs in one day to feed cities the size of Schenectady; New York; St. Joseph, MO; and Kalamazoo, Michigan, we see how eggs are gathered, cleaned and graded, and sent to market. On the dairy farms we see modern milking methods and milk being transported to a manufacturing plant. Processes involved in bottling milk and making cheese are seen, and the ice cream bar section is visited.
Two women seek the affection of a man. The woman who used Phase III soap is victorious and she and the man dance together while the woman without Phase III soap sulks.
Presents a dialogue between Indian spiritual leader Krishnamurti and the boys of the Thatcher School of Ojai, California, in which Krishnamurti encourages the students to question life in order to enhance their self understanding. Warns against the traditional intellectual and argumentative approach to questioning, which Krishnamurti believes dulls the mind. Shows the boys posing questions concerning war as a way of life, acceptance of death, and such world problems as hunger and poverty.
Reveals a candid portrait of Ralph Ellison, author of The Invisible Man. Presents Ellison discussing the function of the writer in society, how he came to write The Invisible Man; his own involvement with the work, and how he feels a work of art should engage all of a writer's being. Features the author reading from this work and commenting on the contribution which the Negro church has made to the eloquence of most Negro writers.
One segment from episode 119 of PBL. Describes the campaign to save Illinois' archaeological sites from urban and industrial expansion. Interviews Stuart Struever, archaeology professor at Northwestern University, who explains the significance of the sites. Shows Struever and others surveying and digging at sites. Ends with the suggestion that the area's heritage could be saved with the help of others.
Traces the history of the black American's participation in the armed forces of the United States, from the Revolutionary War to the war in Vietnam. Reveals little known facts about blacks such as segregation in the military prior to 1947, the first soldier to fall in the Revolutionary War was black, black soldiers were the first to receive the Croix de Guerre in World War I, and over 1,000,000 Negroes served in World War II. Points out that black soldiers have served in the American wars, whether they were accepted socially or not.
Discusses burn injuries in general and new techniques and materials used by the medical researchers to treat burns. Shows patients in various stages of recovery from effects of serious burns. Shows researchers at the Brooke Army Medical Center in Fort Sam Houston, Texas.
Presents Indian spiritual leader Krishnamurti speaking of the personal discontent suffered because people compare what they are with an ideal of what they should be. Explains that this comparison takes place because they accumulate emotions such as hatred and aggression in their memory which limits their freedom to be aware of life. Suggests that people must become totally attentive to and aware of their present environment without interference from memory and past experience to end the conflict.
Examines what has happened in Europe to check the threat of a menancing population growth. Traces the growth of population in Europe from the Middle Ages and suggests that the small-family concept, which began in England in the late nineteenth century, has had more effect on population than any other thing.
Explains that Wellmet House attempts to rehabilitate the mentally ill not by gaining conforming behavior but by helping them relate to other people in natural and unstructured ways. Points out that half of the residents are mentally ill and the other half are college students from nearby universities who staff Wellmet House. Emphasizes the need for each patient to find individual expression. Shows patients and staff at dinner, parties, the local pub, and a house meeting.
Presents Indian spiritual leader, writer and lecturer Krishnamurti's views of the world crisis which has developed because the old traditions and values are no longer acceptable. States that the greatest miracle is being able to listen with one's mind, eyes, and ears without the raising of self-defenses against what is being said. Argues that hope and faith should not be important and that the only important things in our lives are what we are and what is--not what we think should be--and that this requires a radical transformation of the mind.