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Eighteen of the nation's 25 educational TV stations became a network this week to promote their most ambitious experiment: five weekly series-in literature, geography, mathematics, government and music-created and broadcast live from Manhattan by NBC. The cost of $600,000 will be shared equally by NBC and Michigan's Ann Arbor Educational TV and Radio Center. Some of the projected shows, to be seen on weekdays from 6:30 to 7 p.m. for 13 weeks, sound tempting enough to lure plenty of viewers from commercial channels. Items...
...Manhattan itself, which has no educational TV station, NBC's key station WRCA will broadcast kinescopes of the series during slack hours on Saturdays and Sundays. But millions of U.S. viewers are out of range of the educational stations-they will get no benefit from the NBC project, and will have to take hope for the future in the high intentions voiced by commercial broadcasters fortnight ago at a Boston conference on public-service programing, hosted by the Westinghouse Broadcasting Co. Many would agree with Guest Speaker Charles (Twenty One) Van Doren, who told the conference: "You can have...
...performance full of the juices of life. But Claire Bloom, 26, was a prize Juliet who made even her more hackneyed passages sound fresh. Looking no more than the 14 Juliet was written to be, she was as soft and warm as a tea cozy, even if priggish NBC censors did raise her neckline by 3½ inches...
...NBC gave Mills some $144,000 to spend in Paris, and he rewarded the network with a sound argument for color TV. Unfortunately, for more than 99% of those who saw it, the argument was invisible, and many of Paris' sunlit moments were overcast on black and white TV. Still the result was pleasant enough-and the reaction encouraging enough-to incite Mills to plan a lot more traveloguing. On his agenda: Anna Magnani's Rome, Laurence Olivier's London, perhaps even Marlon (Teahouse of the August Moon) Brando's Tokyo...
...black high-collared rehearsal coat, Arturo Toscanini walked into NBC's Manhattan Studio 8-H and launched a Robert Shaw-trained chorus and a handful of soloists into the music he loved: Verdi's melodramatic, tearfully tender Aïda. With cajolery, threats and sarcasm ("Mr. Tucker," he inquired scathingly of Tenor Richard Tucker, "do you love a woman?"), he shaped a magnificently precise and passionate performance, presented to NBC televiewers and listeners in the spring of 1949. When RCA Victor decided to cut records from the broadcast tapes, Toscanini returned from retirement in 1954 to conduct...