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...Bell Telephone Science Series (NBC, 6-7 p.m.). A repeat of Producer Frank Capra's superb color film on weather, The Unchained Goddess...
...swamped with eager questions. But despite these reactions, the M.I.T. committee is still revising the basic text, this week will start making a $2,000,000-plus series of 60 or more supplemental films for classroom showings. One film consultant: Hollywood Producer Frank (It Happened One Night) Capra. In addition, the committee is finishing a handbook for teachers, will soon start approving some 100 books for outside reading on such topics as nuclear reactors and Galileo...
...turning out such topflight pictures as It Happened One Night and Mr. Deeds Goes to Town. Harry Cohn borrowed stars and paid them by the day, concentrated on low-cost productions, stayed out of the chain theater business. And Cohn-made names began to glitter-Clark Gable, Director Frank Capra, Robert Montgomery, Rita Hayworth, Humphrey Bogart, Judy Holliday...
...Well Digger's Daughter, which Marcel Pagnol made just before the war, has all the ingredients of some of Frank Capra's films, like Mr. Smith Goes to Washington. It is almost as old; it has a good deal of comedy, a heavy dollop of pathos, and something of a social message. It is entertaining-about as entertaining as Mr. Smith would be to a French audience...
...science teaching are in progress. New York City has instituted a Bureau of Science and Mathematics to coordinate the curriculum in the public schools, and to try to bring standards nearer those of the Bronx High School of Science. A national education foundation has engaged Oscar-winning Frank Capra to direct some films dramatizing the opportunities in science...