Start Over Date 1958 Collection National Educational Television

101. Play in the Community (15:03)

Date:
1958
Summary:
Because “Robbie” the cartoonist for Fignewton’s Newspaper is ill, Fignewton asks Brushy, Linda, Skip and Susie-Q to draw the cartoon illustrations. They draw pictures of where to play and where not...

102. Skip Hides From Health (15:07)

Date:
1958
Summary:
When Skip learns it is time for the children at school to have their shots, he decides to hide and miss the shots. The others decide that he can’t join them in their later fun if he is going to be ...

103. Art Contest Opens (15:05)

Date:
1958
Summary:
Fignewton’s Newspaper is conducting an art contest, which in part consists of having the children guess the titles of well-known paintings and guess how other art objects are made.

104. Staging for television (32:13)

Date:
1958
Main contributors:
Verne Weber
Summary:
Presents principles of good staging for the panel and interview types of television programs. Points out common errors of staging and demonstrates methods to be used in good program staging. Sugges...

105. Fallout and disarmament (1:00:12)

Date:
1958
Summary:
Presents a debate on the problem of radioactive fallout from nuclear tests and the advisability of nuclear disarmament. Debates such pertinent questions as : "Does radioactive fallout from nuclear ...

106. Yankee trader abroad (29:27)

Date:
1958
Summary:
Describes and compares the extent and variety of American business with other countries. Appraises the importance of imports to the American economy and of our exports to the economies of other co...

107. Wellmet House (29:30)

Date:
19XX
Summary:
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...

108. Doctors in space. Collision stations (29:06)

Alternative title:
Collision stations
Date:
1958
Main contributors:
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Summary:
Discusses the problem of meteorite damage during space travel. Demonstrates the Navy's full-pressure space suit for emergency exit. Explains the difficulties of escape and survival in space. Featur...

109. Motivic and Thematic Variation (29:44)

Date:
1958
Summary:
Tonal and rhythmic change of character develop from the manipulation of the basic “kernel” of motivation. Dr. Jones also analyzes the simple ternary form from Beethoven to illustrate thematic varia...

110. Thematic Development (30:00)

Date:
1958
Summary:
Dr. Jones, in this program, explains the tremendous expansion of the basic ternary scheme into “sonata-form” and illustrates some of the simpler means of thematic development in sonata and symphoni...

111. Building Up a New Theory (29:44)

Date:
1958
Summary:
Uses laboratory experiments to explain how a new theory in science replaces an old one. Relates the method used by Count Rumford to disprove the caloric theory of heat. Features Dr. Sanborn Brown...

112. Textural and Thematic Contrast (29:35)

Date:
1958
Summary:
In this program, Dr. Jones illustrates textural contrast, i.e., the setting of passages of homophonic texture against polyphonic passages in the same composition, with examples from Palestrina, Bac...

113. Ternary Form (29:38)

Date:
1958
Summary:
In this discussion, Dr. Jones explains thatternary form is the repetition of an opening section of a composition after further development of the theme. This repetition brings the opening in to a r...

114. Motivic Repetition (29:29)

Date:
1958
Summary:
The motive is the core, kernel or “single cell” of a piece of music, according to Dr. Jones. This basic musical symbol is made meaningful by reiteration, which is motivic repetition. Illustrations ...

115. The story of glass (15:13)

Date:
1958
Summary:
Bash Kennett tells of the early American glassmakers, showing rare pieces made by Baron Stiegel, Caspar Wistar, Amelung and others. She describes the method of glassmaking, uses the glass throughou...

116. Mountain Grazing (15:00)

Date:
1958
Summary:
Tells the story of sheep ranches. Describes the rancher's life. Explains the importance of wool in the life of the settler and modern man.

117. The Carpenter (15:11)

Date:
1958
Summary:
The importance of men who have learned to work with wood is Bash’s theme in this program. She tells of early settlers who had to do their own building and carving with crude tools. Through film, sh...

118. The Fish Hatchery (15:08)

Date:
1958
Summary:
Bash takes a film expedition to a fish hatchery and shows the pools where fish are raised. She shows close-ups of a giant rainbow trout and goes with the hatchery truck to plant fish in the river. ...

119. Farms (14:59)

Date:
1958
Summary:
Tells the story of farm life in early America. Explains how the farmer once raised his own animals and used them for the many things he needed. Visits a farm to see farm animals. (KQED) Kinescope.

120. Early money (15:00)

Date:
1958
Summary:
The story of money is one of a way of life, says Bash in this program. Money was not always coin or paper notes. There were many things which early pioneers could use to buy things. In Virginia, th...

121. Fireboat (15:16)

Date:
1958
Summary:
Host Bash Kennett describes the danger of fire aboard the clipper ships. Visits the San Francisco Bay's "Phoenix" fire boat, which is shown docked next to the Hills Brothers Coffee Company, and pre...

122. Colonists and their countries (14:58)

Date:
1958
Summary:
Describes the various groups of settlers that came to this country and founded colonies. Tells of the first French, English, Dutch, Swedish, and Spanish settlers. Discusses their lives, homes, an...

123. The start of schools (15:08)

Date:
1958
Summary:
This program begins before there were any schools in this country. Families taught their children at night after the chores were finished and in some cases a master craftsman taught young apprentic...

124. Shopping (15:12)

Date:
1958
Summary:
Bash takes a trip to an old general store, driving up in a buggy as the early settler might have done. In the store she shops for old-time items and tells of their uses. She gets coffee from a big ...

125. Fishermen (14:57)

Date:
1958
Summary:
Bash talks about the brave men who have sailed small boats into the open ocean in search of fish from earliest times. They risk their lives and gamble their fortunes in these ventures. Bash takes a...

126. Hats (15:32)

Date:
1958
Summary:
The hat you wear tells much about where you live, what kind of life you lead and what the climate is, says Bash in this program. Hats can be fun and in this program the story of hats is started wit...

127. Scientists and people (29:32)

Date:
1958
Summary:
Dr. Joel Hildebrand discusses the role of the scientist in society. Indicates why a broad acquaintance with science is essential for the educated man. (KQED) Film.

128. To young persons with active minds (29:45)

Date:
1958
Summary:
Dr. Joel Hildebrand discusses the future of scientific endeavor and the qualities which help make a scientist. Explains why the young person interested in science should possess curiosity, imagina...

129. Observation and Experiment (29:35)

Date:
1958
Summary:
Dr. Joel Hildebrand discusses the scientific method and how it is used. Points out that science is based on observable facts. Illustrates how complete reliance on the physical senses can be deceivi...

130. Story of helium (29:54)

Date:
1958
Summary:
The story is one of the most significant and exciting in the whole history of science. It started with the “impractical” observation of a line in the solar spectrum with no then-known earthly count...

131. Seasonal Workers (14:56)

Date:
1958
Summary:
The movement of traveling farmers, who follow the crops around the country, picking them as they ripen at different times in various areas is described in this program. The beginnings of the season...

132. Life Aboard a Clipper Ship (15:12)

Date:
1958
Summary:
Tells the story of sailing vessels and life aboard a clipper ship. Describes the various jobs performed by the sailors. Discusses the types of cargoes carried on trips to all parts of the world. (...

133. Co-operative work in the South (15:21)

Date:
1958
Summary:
The neighborliness of people in the South gives rise to many stories of help to others living nearby. The assistance with plowing, picking of crops and helping “catch up on work” is told, then the ...

134. Post Riders (15:05)

Date:
1958
Summary:
Bash’s story begins when the only way letters were delivered was in a sack of mail throw on the corner table of a coffee house, to be picked up, perhaps, by the owner or his friend. Early envelopes...

135. Forest fires (14:58)

Date:
1958
Summary:
Bash describes the value and beauty of the timber of our country, and how it helps hold the soil, gives cover for the animals, and is a valuable crop. Then she goes on a film expedition to an actua...

136. Early Houses (15:00)

Date:
1958
Summary:
The program describes the kinds of housing the early settlers built, from the earliest lean-to type, hastily thrown together to protest the people as soon as they landed on these shores, on through...

137. Fairs and Dramas (14:52)

Date:
1958
Summary:
Bash traces the development of drama and entertainment from the medieval days of acrobats at fairs, to the present. She demonstrates use of early puppets and marionettes, speaks of the troubadours ...

138. The Shakemaker (15:00)

Date:
1958
Summary:
Bash takes a trip to the mountains to watch a man make shakes for roofs, in the same manner that shakes were made when the first house were settled. The method hasn’t changed, except for the use of...

139. Pirates off our coast (15:15)

Date:
1958
Summary:
Bash talks about the real pirates who operated in American waters in the early days. Stories of the exploits of Captain Kidd, Blackbeard, and others describe the kind of life the pirates led as the...

140. Atomic Fuels (29:42)

Date:
1958
Summary:
Examines new concepts of the word "fuel." Discusses and shows the atomic fuels uranium, plutonium, and thorium. Explains what atomic fuels are and where they are found. Describes the use of "magic ...

141. The apprentice (30:44)

Date:
1958
Summary:
Poindexter tells this Grimm fairy tale about an apprentice lad who starts for home with his wages and begins trading. He trades his gold for a horse, his horse for a cow, the cow for a pig, the pig...

142. Grasshopper and the ants (15:13)

Date:
1958
Summary:
Hand puppets tell the story of a colony of ants hard at work to store food for winter. Marry Ann Ant and Wilburforce are two young ants who hate to work and when the Grasshopper comes by with his f...

143. Covered Wagon Trip (15:18)

Date:
1958
Summary:
Tells the story of an imaginary cross-country trip in a covered wagon. Explains the preparation for the trip. Describes the difficulties encountered on such a journey. (KQED) Kinescope.

144. Sailing Ship Balclutha (15:09)

Date:
1958
Summary:
Bash describes the rugged life aboard an early day sailing vessel … the various chores of the crews, and the romance of sailing to faraway ports in search of cargoes. On film, Bash goes aboard the ...

145. Roads and Wagons (15:10)

Date:
1958
Summary:
The interesting development of roads, from a path through the forest which a horse could scarcely travel, on through the building of the roads which led westward, and which were used by the huge Co...

146. Country fairs (15:08)

Date:
1958
Summary:
Bash starts at the earliest meetings of groups of people, the church festival, and traces the development of gatherings on through the country fairs. The camp meetings of the Methodists give rise t...

147. Life in a Gold Rush Town (14:59)

Date:
1958
Summary:
Tells the story of the deserted city of Columbia, California, one of the key Gold Rush towns in the 1850's. Describes the life and profession of people who went there seeking gold. Shows the old bu...

148. The forgetful bear (15:17)

Date:
1958
Summary:
This is the old favorite, "The Three Bears," with a whimsical touch by Tom Tichenor. The Baby Bear always forgets to do what he is told to do. He has a terrible time remembering instructions given ...

149. The gingerbread boy (15:14)

Date:
1958
Summary:
Hand puppets tell the story of a lonesome couple who want children. The wife decides to make some gingerbread and makes it in the shape of a little boy. When she takes him out of the oven he comes ...

150. Little red riding hood (14:33)

Date:
1958
Summary:
Hand puppets make this a lively story for the children. Tom Tichenor has written a new version with the violence deleted. Little Red Riding Hood is a cute little bunny, and when she goes through th...