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WTHI-TV team coverage of tornadoes that went through Central Indiana. Karen Rariden is anchor. First video from Terre Haute area. First package is Mike Conway, reporter/intern, Brian Cundiff, photographer. Video, including aerial shots of Clay County, especially Center Point. Interviews with two people who saw tornado. Second story is from Greg Todd of WRTV about a tornado that hit west of Bloomington in Monroe County.
Conway Library Tape 26
November-December 1985
Log Sheet/metadata
Tape log from 2/23
00:10 WKEF-TV, 22 Alive News “No Time to Lose” Promo 12/85, Richard Penner
00:55 WKEF-TV, 22 Alive News Christmas Promo 12/85
Al Balcom, MC, Sandy Patton, Doug Gealey, Barbara Kerr, Steve SAckman, D’aun Walker, Pat Cantrell, Tom Reardon, Kenny Allen, Mary Ellicott, Carl Day, Pat Hiatt, Valerie
Galloway, Dan Suffoletto, Russ Larish, Steve Ross, Bill Hardert, Judi Dorsey, Darrell
Hunter, Bob Barnes, Rajean Campbell, Lori Webster, Jerry Kaye, Mary Estridge, Chris Roberts,
01:56 Holiday Giving 12/18/85 (2:35)
WKEF-TV, 22 Alive News, Carl Day-anchor, Mike Conway-reporter, Dan Cavins-photog
WDTN-TV Food for Friends, -Donna Jordan
Dayton ‘celebrities’ holiday song -Holiday Aid, Steve Tatone, car dealer “Let Them
Shine”
Salvation Army -Paul Satterlee, Kipra Hollee-emergency aid
04:37 Newscast Open & Perrine Body Found 12/23/85 (6:50)
WKEF-TV, 22 Alive News, Carl Day-anchor, Frank Lemen-weather, Don Brown-sports
Lyle Stieg -live shot at coroner’s office. Mary Perrine disappeared from Dayton Mall
Body found in a sewer
Mike Conway-reporter background on her disappearance
11:51 Hignite at Newport Hostage Scene (:50)
WLWT-TV, live shot with John London & Steve Forrest & end of newscast
Andy Hignite was near where shots were fired
13:00 NBC News Today Show 1985 Review 12/31/85 (5:20)
Bryant Gumbel, Jane Pauley
Reagan 2nd Term
South Africa
Reagan’s Star Wars project -Soviet Summit
Philly MOVE bombing fire
18:35 Noises in the Night -The Bears 12/1/85 (2:56)
WKEF-TV, 22 Alive News, Mike Conway-reporter, Dan Cavins-photographer
Adrian Belew, Rob Fetters, Gilly's
21:30 Rex Electronics Holiday Sale commercial (:30)
Gary McGill, voice over, VCR sales
22:08 New Year’s Resolutions 1/1/86 (1:50)
WKEF-TV, 22 Alive News, Carl Day-anchor
Mike Conway-reporter, Russ Larish-photographer
Joe Smith & Barbara Kerr w/ New Year’s Eve countdown
Interview with Bob Burtner on giving up smoking
24:10 Survival Game (2:30)
Andy Hignite feature, Warren County
Paintball, Mike Conway-reporter
26:37 Noises in the Night -Boys from Indiana 1/20/86 (3:03)
WKEF-TV, 22 Alive News –Joan Greig-anchor, Mike Conway-reporter, Dan Cavins-photog
Canal St. Tavern
Bluegrasss band is from Milan, Indiana
29:40 Shuttle Explosion -Rowley 1/28/86 (2:00)
as it ran on NBC’s A-2 news feed
Mike Conway-reporter, Richard Penner-photographer
James Rowley, semi-finalist for Teacher in Space program
31:45 NBC News Special Report -Shuttle Explosion 1/28/86 (2:18)
Tom Brokaw-anchor
Mike Conway-reporter, Richard Penner-photographer
James Rowley, semi-finalist for Teacher in Space program
34:04 Shuttle Explosion -Teacher followup 1/29/86 (1:28)
Mike Conway, reporter
As featured on NBC News A-2 feed
35:04 Talkback Problems with Johnny Walker
WKEF-TV, 22 Alive News
35:50 John Cougar Mellencamp “Jack & Diane” video (4:15)
40:25 John Cougar Mellencamp “Small Town” video (3:42)
44:12 Shuttle Explosion -James Rowley 1/28/86 (1:52)
Re-edit, the best version
Mike Conway-reporter, Richard Penner-photographer
James Rowley, runner-up for Teacher in Space program
46:20 James Rowley on the Today Show 1/30/86 (6:12)
Jane Pauley interviews James Rowley with WKEF-TV footage
Robert Foerster, Lafayette, IN, one of ten finalists for Teacher in Space
52:30 Myrtle Tree Baptist Church Fire Folo 11/3/85 (1:32)
(on earlier tape, still video problems at start)
Champaign County
54:15 Noises in the Night -John Cougar Mellencamp 2/1/86 (2:26)
Mike Conway-reporter, Dan Cavins-photographer
WKEF-TV, 22 Alive News
Scarecrow tour, Hara Arena
56:49 Noises in the Night -The Reducers 2/26/85 (2:34)
Mike Conway-reporter, Dan Cavins-photographer
WKEF-TV, 22 Alive News
59:44 Unclaimed Funds 2/26/86 (1:59)
Mike Conway-reporter
Flying Lizards version of “Money”
Conway Library Tape Twelve
Log Sheet/metadata
Tape log from 12/22
PART ONE ---------------
00:10 WTHI Weekend Sports 8/21/83
Anne Ryder, anchor. Mike Conway, sports
MLB
H.S. Football ranking for different classes
PGA -Curtis Strange
LPGA
High Jump record
03:15 WTHI Sports Toss 8/21/83
Anne Ryder, anchor/diver. Mike Conway, sports
03:35 WTHI Promo
Tony Leita promoting WTHI Midday Report
04:10 WTHI Weekend Sports 8/28/83
Nebraska First in College Football
NL East -Pittsburgh Pirates
-in the midst of sportscast, lightening hit the station antenna
5:55 WTHI Weather 8/28/83
Bill Pelletier starts as weekend weather anchor
07:00 Vigo County Home Fundraiser 8/93
Rod Andrews, reporter
Don Morris Band played a fundraising concert at the Vigo County Home
Interview with Mike Leistner, Activities Director for Vigo Co. Home
Interview with Don Morris
-audio issues in story
8:47 WTHI Bloopers
-Chyron problems during Early Morning News -Jann Ingmire
-Camera problems during newscast teases -Anne Ryder/Bob Ramsey/David
Goodnow/Karen Rariden
-Krash Kruis. Pat Kruis & Mike Conway in the front seat when Pat hits the car in front of
her
-Bryce Thomas of WTWO standup problems
-Chris Minor as Kermit the Frog
-Bob Koob having trouble with his standup
-Tired Koob. Marty Joseph & Bob Koob toss.
-WTWO News Open with Johnny Palmer & Debbie Reynolds
-WTWO Handicapped Spot. -Alden Taylor showing how WTWO news car was in a
handicapped parking spot
-Weather sprint. During WTHI weather toss from Bob Koob to Anne Ryder, someone
runs across the studio
-Hazy Dan Day. Dan Day on the phone for a story with an out-of-focus photo of him
while he’s talking to anchor Tony Leita
-Dog problems. Howard Powell is shooting video when a dog approaches him and he
says “back off.”
-Persistent Kid. While Mike Conway is interviewing people for an Easter Egg hunt story,
a little guy is very curious
Late for the Hunt. While the kids are lined up for the Deming Park Easter Egg Hunt,
WTHI photographer Mark Davidson is working on his equipment behind the news
vehicle
-Scotty’s Waterbed commercial with Mark Burnett
16:20 CBS News Anniversary 9/6/83
Dan Rather, reporter
20 year anniversary of expansion of newscast to 30 minutes
-Don Hewitt, interview
-film of Cronkite at start of first 30-minute newscast
Interview with John F. Kennedy
Civil Rights coverage
Eric Sevareid commentaries
18:35 Little 500 Race, Bloomington 4/23/83
Mike Conway, reporter/photographer
Acacia winners
20:45 Bill Pelletier Weather Magic 9/11/83
Trouble with chroma key during WTHI weathercast
21:40 Conway final sportscast 9/11/83
10pm Newscast. Anne Ryder, anchor. Mike Conway, sports, Bill Pelletier, weather
End of Mike Conway’s final sportscast at WTHI before moving to Traverse City, MI
-end of newscast with music
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22:30 WGTU/WGTQ Newsource 29&8 Newscast 9/30/83
Bill Wagman, anchor. Johnny Williams, weather
Leelanau Dump
James Watt controversy
Boyne City administrator
Michigan school funding
Michigan Conservation Corps. Idea
Breakup of Bell Telephone system hearing -Jolene Carpenter, reporter
Story Mix-up 10/3/83
Low Vision Clinic at Munson Medical Center -John Ciolino, reporter
Higher Costs for License Plates -Mike Conway, reporter/photographer
PART TWO--------------
00:10 Newsource 29&8 Newscast Open & Lead Story 10/6/83
News Open with Bill Wagman, Johnny Williams, Randy O’Brien
M-31 Acme Road Widening Public Hearing -Mike Conway, reporter/photographer
-expand highway from 2 to 5 lanes
03:15 WDIV-TV Lansing Bureau Tour 7/14/83
Producer Chip Drake
20:00 Newsource 29&8 Weather Segment 10/10/83
Johnny Williams, weathercaster
Hi East Jordan
Tops In Toys commercial
Bill Wagman, anchor
25:55 Moody Blues “Sitting at the Wheel” music video
Historical documentary about living in Indianapolis, Indiana in the 1950s
Written and Produced by Dave Stoelk;
Executive Producer: Michael Atwood;
Videographer: Tim Swartz;
Associate Producer: Amy Sterner;
Original Music Composed and Produced: Tim Brickley;
Chief Editor: Andrew Birkhead;
Narrated by Mike Ahern;
Associate Producers: Marshall Curry, Rick Maultra & Melissa Lingwall Swartz;
Post Production: Mark O. Bradley & David Tarr;
Videography: Frank Konermann & Sean Murphy Gilson;
Production Coordinator: David DeMunbrun;
Film Logging/Research: Kurt Christopher;
Visual Research: Deborah Markisohn & Pete Bailey;
Primary Research: Amy Sterner & Marshall Curry;
Film Transfer: Tom Barker;
Director of Photography: Karl L. Hall Koch;
Dolly Grip: Tom Pielemeier;
Assistant Director: Kent Smith;
Audio/Rear Screen: Rodney Myers;
Production Assistance: John O'Connor, Erik A.D. Sears, Bob Gill & Melissa Nash
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Indy in the 50s
Video (2:00:43)
Notes by Jessica VanAllen
Synopsis: This video is a a special narrated by Mike Ahern about Indianapolis in the fifties. We learn about the good and bad things that happened in the era after WWII, focusing on suburban life, segregation, youth, and technology.
0:03 video starts, montage of clips and interviews about Indianapolis
1:45 before the 50s, starts with clips and info about the motor speedway before it became famous, explains what life was like in Indy after the Great Depression and during WWII
3:27 moves into the 50s, Mike Ahern introduces special
4:45 mayor of Indy in the 50s talking to audience,
*5:07 goal and idea of the 50s and what the veterans wanted to come home to, veterans wanted to move out of small apartments, people couldn’t afford homes, suburban housing started up, assembly line of building
9:13 G.I. bill of rights, veterans could buy a house with no down payment
10:03 suburbia was colorful and bright, unlike the gray, drab city
10:45 jobs for veterans, General Motors, AT&T sets up shop in Indy, industry and jobs made out of farmland, farms become factories, Chrysler, telephones, growth in business industry and jobs, technology and suburbia, shopping malls
*16:23 problems in the 50s, segregation, not able to live in the Suburbs (deliberately blocked or didn’t have money), lived in the inner city
*17:58 polio in Indy, Eli Lilly rushes vaccines over the world, based in Indy
18:50 motor speedway
20:04 Michael Atwood and Jim Gerard talk
28:43 cars, functional and stylish, promised a new personality, built to look pretty
30:45 baby boomers, high school in the 50s
34:50 all Black high school, Attucks, more qualified and impressive teachers
36:13 teenagers defined themselves by their appearance, fashion became a big thing, clothes become a status symbol
38:38 after school activities, drive in, cruising
43:30 Butler sectional, event of the year, excused absence from school
45:00 Attucks high school competed in 1955, used to not be allowed to play against other schools because they were Black, they dominated against the other schools, Oscar Robertson
50:00 Atwood and Gerard talk again, trying to sell VHS tapes of the show
58:51 Cold War, fear of nuclear bombs, 1956 Nixon comes to Indy, Indy was on the home front of the Cold War, chapter founded at American Civil Liberties Union, leaning towards communist views, American Legion protests
1:01:25 Edward R Murrow does documentary on the issue, controversy over communism in Indy
1:03:58 summer in Indy, pools, skating, rollercoasters, baseball, hoola hoops
1:06:11 Indy 500, Jimmy Bryan
1:11: 38 first television broadcast was about Indy 500, TV comes to Indy, jobs created, WTTV
1:15:25 Debbie Drake, exercise, Kindergarten College
*1:16:08 all local television live, Howard Caldwell talks about TV in the 50s
1:17:10 Gilbert Forbes, Howard Caldwell, Bill Crawford
1:17:55 Indy radio, “Bouncin” Bill Baker
1:20:20 Atwood and Gerard talk again
1:29:13 Rock n Roll, Elvis, pressed his albums, Bill Baker got calls from Elvis, new style of music, jazz (Indiana Avenue)
1:35:05 downtown Indy, the circle, transportation, shopping, L.S. Ayres and Co.
1:45:27 away from downtown, Ayres in Glendale, everything moves to the suburbs, Castleton (population was 258 in the 50s)
1:47:52 the end, credits start
Website clips:
[Text Wrapping Break]
This clip was interesting to me because it explains the goal of many veterans when they returned home from war: to buy a house, get a job, and start a family.
5:07 IC: “I think there existed in the minds of many people…”
8:06 OC: “their next door neighbor… and their next door neighbor”
[Text Wrapping Break]
This segment talks about the main problems during the fifties, focusing on segregation and polio. It puts the era that Caldwell started to make a name for himself into focus.
16:23 IC: “The American dream came true…”
18:18 OC: “all over the world”
[Text Wrapping Break]
We learn about television in the fifties. Caldwell talks about his experience, and Ahern explains the early days of broadcasting in Indy, with Gilbert Forbes, Caldwell, and Bill Crawford.
1:16:08 IC: “Until channel 8 got ahold…”
1:17:46 OC: “come back and do the late weather”
WTHI-TV, Karen Rariden anchor
Anne Ryder, reporter
Sullivan County Highway Department workers on strike. Interview with striking worker Randy Putoff. The strikers are camping across the street from Highway Dept. County says it will start hiring to replace strikers the next week.
Dumpsters are all full of trash to residents are told to take their trash to the dump.
Mike Conway, photographer
WTHI-TV
Karen Rariden, anchor
George Eisele, reporter
Clinton Indiana is having money problems and the town is looking run down. Ball State University students are unveiling some recommendations on how Clinton can improve the look of the town. People in town are interviewed about what should be done to improve Clinton, including cleaning up downtown buildings, alleys, and streets.
Mike Conway, photographer (his first story as photographer)
These are 10 health stories that Marilyn Schultz reported for WRC-TV, the NBC affiliate in Washington, DC and/or for NBC News. These stories are from the 1970s, before she left NBC in 1976.
EARLY EYE TESTS FOR CHILDREN
:30 Importance of early eye tests for children
1:46 Marilyn standup -ends w/ “News 4, Washington
BELLY DANCER
2:10 WRC TV News 4 Insert, “Belly Dancer” Shultz, Health (on title card)
2:10 belly dancing as a healthy exercise
3:40 standup
PRE-SCHOOL & HEAD START
3:58 WRC-TV News 4 Insert, “Pre-Schoolers,” Shultz, Health (on title card)
4:06 Head Start tests
5:17 Marilyn standup
BODY MASSAGE AND EXERCISE FOR RELAXATION
5:37 WRC-TV News 4 Insert, “Body Massage,” Shultz Health (on title card)
5:42 massage and exercise for relaxation
8:26 Marilyn Schultz standup close
CYSTIC FIBROSIS TESTS
8:45 WRC-TV News 4 Insert “Cystic Fibrosis,” Shultz Health (on title card)
8:54 story -testing for cystic fibrosis
9:30 Video of newborns in hospital
10:18 interview w/ doctor
10:34 Marilyn standup close
LOSING WEIGHT BY WIRING MOUTH SHUT
10:55 WRC-TV News 4 Insert “Wired Mouth,” Shultz-Health
11:06 story -wiring mouth shut to cut down on eating
-woman wants to lose 100 pounds
12:14 Marilyn standup close (ends w/ NBC News Washington)
RED CROSS VOLUNTEERS
12:37 WRC-TV News 4 Insert “Red Cross,” Shultz, Health (on title card)
12:46 Red Cross story
-volunteers drive people to their doctor appointments
-Red Cross needs more volunteers to drive people to their appointments
13:57 Marilyn Schultz standup close
HOSPITAL FLOWERS HEALTH ISSUE?
14:12 WRC-TV News 4 Insert “Hospital Flowers,” Shultz, Health (on title card)
14:30 story -do hospital flowers cause health issues when in hospital room?
16:06 Marilyn standup close
UTERINE CANCER
16:22 WRC-TV News 4 Insert “Uterine Cancer,” Shultz, Health (on title card)
16:34 story
-new machine to check for cancer
-interview with doctor
-Marilyn reverse question
17:45 Marilyn standup close (NBC, Washington)
HOSPITAL BURN UNIT
18:08 WRC-TV News 4 Insert “Burn Unit,” Shultz, Health (on title card)
18:20 story – video of patient in burn unit
-many are victims of drinking/smoking in bed
-graphic film of burned skin
20:24 Marilyn standup bridge in scrubs
"There's No Place Like Kansas" weekly feature
KAKE-TV, Wichita-Hutchinson
Mike Conway, reporter/photojournalist
Profile of 91-year-old Frances Brownlee of Stafford County, KS. She has been writing a weekly column for the Stafford Courier newspaper for decades. She writes about the town that her family helped found, Zenith, KS, as well as the view outside her window.
She writes her weekly column at a diner in Stafford each week. She also visits the people who live at the Leisure Homestead Nursing Home. They rely on here weekly columns to keep up with what is happening in Zenith and Stafford County, KS.
Mike Conway and Lori Bullerdick interviewed Mike Lanke
Interview conducted at Mr. Lanke's home in Terre Haute, IN
Mike Lanke was a photojournalist for WTHI-TV in Terre Haute
Remembering what he was like as a boy, David wistfully recalls the crush he had on his teacher, Miss Simpson. "I thought she was the prettiest lady in the world." His fantasies come back to him-how he would prove himself a hero in her eyes by winning races and saving her from a mugger. There were furtive phone calls and bicycle rides past her house, even a ruse about selling raffle tickets. As a nine-year-old, David dreams that Miss Simpson has fallen in love with him, but when he confesses his feelings to his best friend, he learns that she is engaged. His classmates tease him on the playground, until he works up the courage to ask her if she likes him more than anyone else in the class. He catches her at the wrong moment after school when she is hurrying to finish up her work. She tells him rather curtly that no, she likes all of her students just the same. But David hears only that he has been rejected and goes away hurt. From then on his conduct changes radically: he picks fights when he is teased and "stops being good and starts causing trouble" to win Miss Simpson's attention. One day after school he rushes into the empty classroom and begins to gash "I hate you" on her desk. The principal catches him in the act, and afterwards in the school office, Miss Simpson tries to help him gain a greater understanding of what they both have experienced.
The world of Donna Pugh is different, but not strange. Because she is blind, Donna bas to learn to be herself as well as she can in spite of being unable to do some things that sighted children take for granted. Although she must often struggle to get things done, Donna has accepted her disability and come to live with it so that she can cope with the world on her own terms. This documentary examines various aspects of Donna's life-her work in school, friendships, singing in a choir, gardening, cooking, bicycle-riding, household chores. Whether it's playing on swings or playing word games, whatever she sets out to do reveals her willingness to risk herself in some way. As she reaches out to grasp more experiences, Donna is able to enlarge her world, because she knows that she has to expect more of herself. Donna's parents, her principal, and her special education teacher talk about the dimensions of her world and relate her process of adjustment to the Jives of other blind and sighted children. By working out her own means of coping with her life, Donna is learning to accept herself and to achieve a sense of dignity and self-worth - much in the same way that other children must learn to do.
Episode 3 from the Agency for Instructional Television series The Heart of Teaching. Dramatizations are designed to help teachers deal with problems - frustration, anger, isolation, change and pressure. This episode considers frustrations teachers feel when they are unable to reach certain students and shows a few ways teachers may deal with those frustrations.
Adrian is a new boy in the school, and an outstanding student. Frankie, who is not good at school work, increasingly resents him, and as Adrian returns to his desk after starring in a math quiz, Frankie suddenly trips him. The teacher startles Frankie by asking him a question, and his fumbling response brings
derisive laughter from the class. But it's Adrian whom Frankie singles out as the one who is mocking him.
At recess as Adrian wanders shyly around the playground, Frankie sneaks up on him and pins him from behind. Before anything can happen, the bell rings, and Frankie, forced to let him go, snarls, "Just wait until after school." Throughout the day Frankie continues to taunt him while Adrian tries to find an ally.
At the end of the day as the students are being dismissed, Frankie plants himself beside the front door of the school to catch Adrian on his way out. But Adrian sees him there and dashes out a side door. The chase is now on, and Adrian heads for the downtown section, hoping to find someone to protect him, but instead loses his way. When Frankie catches up with him, Adrian tries to persuade him to talk out their differences, finally offering him a quarter if he will leave him alone. Frankie is in no mood to be reasonable and keeps after him, trying all the harder to pick a fight. Frankie pursues him to the edge of town, where Adrian spies an abandoned farm and runs for the barn to hide in the loft. As Frankie closes in on him, taunting him to come down and fight, Adrian looks around in panic and sees several old tools, which he imagines using as weapons. As Frankie starts up the ladder after him, Adrian jumps down and circles around below him. Impulsively, he knocks over the ladder with Frankie on it, and the boy falls hard to the ground. As be writhes in pain, pleading for mercy, Adrian gloats, "I could really hurt you now ... I could leave you here all alone." Adrian starts to speak again, but the words catch in his throat.
Episode 7 from the series Self Incorporated, a 15-program television/film series. Self Incorporated is designed to stimulate classroom discussion of critical issues and problems of early adolescence. It aims at helping 11- to 13-year-olds cope with the physical, social, and emotional changes they are experiencing. Self Incorporated was created under the management of the Agency for Instructional Television through the resources of a consortium of 42 state and provincial educational and broadcasting agencies, with additional assistance from Exxon Corporation.
Episode 3 from Bread and Butterflies, a project in career development for nine-to-twelve-year-olds. Based on two years of planning by educators and broadcasters, the project included 15-minute color television programs, a comprehensive Curriculum Guide, and in-service teacher's program, and international program, and workshop materials. Bread and Butterflies was created under the supervision of the Agency for Instructional Television, through the resources of a consortium of thirty-four educational and broadcasting agencies with assistance from Exxon Corporation.
Episode 14 from Bread and Butterflies, a project in career development for nine-to-twelve-year-olds. Based on two years of planning by educators and broadcasters, the project included 15-minute color television programs, a comprehensive Curriculum Guide, and in-service teacher's program, and international program, and workshop materials. Bread and Butterflies was created under the supervision of the Agency for Instructional Television, through the resources of a consortium of thirty-four educational and broadcasting agencies with assistance from Exxon Corporation.
Episode 6 from the Agency for Instructional Television series The Heart of Teaching. Dramatizations are designed to help teachers deal with problems - frustration, anger, isolation, change and pressure.
Linda comes home from school to find her parents saddened and subdued. They tell her that her grandmother, who had suffered a stroke, had died during the day. Throughout the next few days Linda experiences many strong emotions. She feels guilt and separation at the loss as well as support and comfort from her parents and the relatives who come to help. Through the experience of the funeral, the love of her parents, and the explanation of death by her mother and father, Linda's fears are lessened, and she comes to accept her grandmother's death. In a final poignant scene Linda and her mother join hands and cry together in the realization that Grandmother will never come back but will live in their memories.
Becky's parents are separated, uncertain of what will become of their marriage and their lives.
On the day that her father is flying into town to see them for the weekend, Becky's mother drives her and her younger brother Cory to the airport. The mother is anxious and distracted, Becky is confused and frightened, and Cory restless and innocent of the troubles around him. All along the way Becky questions her mother with growing intensity about why "people fall out of love" and what is going to happen to them if there is a divorce. Edgy about seeing her husband again, the mother cannot find the patience to answer the questions to Becky's satisfaction. In spite of her mother's reassurance that both her parents love her very much, Becky imagines fantastically the frightening consequences of divorce. These nightmarish episodes reveal Becky's feelings of fear, anger, and guilt, and are contrasted with the happy times that she remembers from the days when her parents were still in love. When the father arrives, he embraces the children and then haltingly takes his wife's hand. As they leave the airport together, there is no way of knowing whether a reconciliation is still possible or whether all of them will yet have to grope through the pain of divorce.
Episode 13 from the series Self Incorporated, a 15-program television/film series. Self Incorporated is designed to stimulate classroom discussion of critical issues and problems of early adolescence. It aims at helping 11- to 13-year-olds cope with the physical, social, and emotional changes they are experiencing. Self Incorporated was created under the management of the Agency for Instructional Television through the resources of a consortium of 42 state and provincial educational and broadcasting agencies, with additional assistance from Exxon Corporation.
Eddie's parents are so angrily involved in their own conflicts that they neglect him emotionally and verbally abuse him. Steve comes from a loving family whose high standards and strict discipline are sometimes at odds with what he feels to be fair. Mistreated once again by his mother, Eddie stays away from school until he can find Steve. The boys go to Steve's house to play, but Steve's mother interrupts their games to make Steve clean the bathroom. Matching their grievances, the boys decide to run away that night. When they meet at the appointed place, Steve tells Eddie that he has changed his mind "because my mother would worry about me." Angered by his friend's betrayal, Eddie belligerently calls him "chicken," but his anger soon turns into desolation.
Episode 36 of Thinkabout, a series of sixty programs to help students in 5th and 6th grade become independent learners and problem solvers by strengthening their reasoning skills and reviewing and reinforcing their language arts, mathematics and study skills. The series is broken up into thirteen themes: Finding Alternative, Estimating & Approximating, Giving & Getting Meaning, Collecting Information, Finding Patterns, Generalizing, Sequence and Scheduling, Using Criteria, Reshaping Information, Judging Information, Communicating Effectively and Solving Problems.
