Word: teachings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Tepees & Chateaux. One photographer waited an entire week to shoot a burrowing owl going into a hole and coming out again. Another cameraman was speared by a savage while working along the Amazon. In making a film called Indian Family of Long Ago, E.B.F. experts had to teach the actors, some Sioux from South Dakota, how to put up tepees, pack a travois (a primitive sledge), and shoot bows and arrows. When Producer Milan Herzog made his series on medieval life, nothing would do but to shoot it in real French chateaux that had been especially decorated with priceless furniture...
...Aussies had nothing to hide. Their long months of balmy weather and seaboard beaches make waterbugs of thousands of Australians as soon as they can toddle. Once a youngster can keep his head above the surface, he can join one of 450 A.S.U. sponsored clubs, where competent coaches will teach him free of charge to swim with skill...
...dozens of plants closed-circuit TV systems are used as watchdogs over machinery, note and automatically correct or forestall errors in operation. In hospitals doctors use closed-circuit TV to teach other doctors the intricacies of heart surgery, while dentists have electronic drills that do not build up heat, are less painful than ordinary drills...
...program will include nearly 50 seminars when it goes into full operation. Seventeen full-time faculty members will be needed to teach these seminars...
...volumes and opinions obtained in the process of this wide education will teach what he should paint, and to a certain extent it will teach him how to paint, Shahn asserted. One can teach certain technical points but "teaching a style would be like teaching personality," he said...