1955

National Educational Television

This series, aired from 1954 through 1958, is built around the annual New York Herald Tribune World Youth Forum, which hosts approximately thirty foreign high school students from around the world in the US. The World Youth Forum features the high school students discussing problems of concern to America and the world. Discussions are presided over by Mrs. Helen Hiet Waller, World Youth Forum Director, with a maximum of encouragement to free expression. In this program from 1955, students from Pakistan, Vietnam, South Korea, Nigeria, and South Africa discuss the cultural differences and similarities between their countries and the USA.  Contemporary high school students may have to disobey their parents in order to push new ideals ahead, though disagreeing with one's parents is a difficult thing to do. The student panelists point out that they have had to adjust to more changes in these past seventeen years than our ancestors did in the last 700.

New York Herald Tribune; WOR-TV; Helen Hiett Waller; Nasreen Ahmad, Pakistan; Nakchung Paik, Korea; Marlene Roodt, South Africa; Hisako Shimazu, Japan; Mijiba Karibo, Nigeria

National Educational Television; Indiana University Audio-Visual Center

Educational; Talk; Youth

International relations ; Intergenerational relations ; Culture.

New York, NY

National Educational Television

IUL Moving Image Archive

English

1 Film (0:28:28); 16mm

Gift to the IUB Libraries from Instructional Support Services.
6/18/2020 M. Mitchell: This episode is the 10th episode of Series II of The World We Want and the 20th overall.

IULMIA Film Database: 40000003424175; Other: GR00401703; MDPI Barcode: 40000003424175