Word: tv
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Dangers Real and Rumored. The police found foes on every side, from naive demonstrators to wiseacre news men. The cops claimed that the bright TV lights blinded them and charged that the ubiquitous peering cameras emboldened demonstrators. Cameramen and reporters believed that the cops deliberately slugged them and wrecked their equipment in an effort to thwart coverage of police brutality. Fully 60 of the 300 newsmen assigned to cover Chicago's streets and parks "were involved in incidents resulting in injury to themselves, damage to their equipment, or their arrest...
...Life. Apparently, the Beatles themselves realize that their work in the recording studio has become too mannered and grown too far away from their beginnings in Liverpool. Next month they will tape a one-hour TV show for the BBC in concert format, facing a live audience for the first time in more than two years. It may be that the manifest mannerism of The Beatles will turn out to be what it now seems-just a day in the life of four of the century's most inventive pop artists...
Flickering Flame. Birth and Death, as the film is titled, this week provided a powerful start for the Public Broadcast Laboratory's second and possibly last season. A $12,5 million, two-year experiment of the Ford Foundation, PBL was founded to prove that public TV, if adequately financed, could light candles of culture and significance amid the darkness of commercial TV. But during its first year, the flame of PBL flickered disappointingly...
...successes included a muckraking series on the meat-packing industry, a first-rate U.S. TV premiere for Harold Pinter's The Dwarfs, and a colloquy between a group of concerned college students and a melancholy Walter Lippmann. Most important, the lab exposed a not-so-latent racism in U.S. society. There were bitter confrontations between militant blacks and self-righteous whites, stark views of ghetto living conditions, including one film shot and narrated by Gordon Parks, and cutting satire, such as a Negro-slanted aptitude test (sample question: "How long do you cook chitlins?"), By chance...
...sort of power struggles so notorious at the commercial networks. Executive Director Westin, a 39-year-old former CBS producer, was the hapless mediator. His staff members were fractious because they did not feel they had freedom enough to experiment. The managers of many of the 130-odd public TV stations that carry PBL protested, on the contrary, that the programming was too avant-garde for their audiences. As the lab seemed to flounder, the Editorial Policy Board, a group of outsiders headed by ex-Columbia Journalism Dean Edward Barrett, became increasingly meddlesome. Also constantly kibitzing was Fred W. Friendly...