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Extensive planning, naturally, lies behind the programs that WGBH-TV will present. The Museum of Fine Arts, for example, is installing a television control room, and at a cost of over $80,000 every gallery is being wired with camera cables and 9,000-watt lamps brilliant enough for color television. "The whole Museum will be a television studio, and we will be able to show all our exhibits in their native settings," explains William Dooley, the Museum's Director of Education. "It is one of the most startling innovations the Museum has accomplished since its founding...
Tuesday will be Museum day for WGBH-TV, and Museum and University scholars will describe the history, sociology and traditions which surround each masterpiece. Artists will supplement slides and motion pictures in demonstrating the techniques under study; when Chinese brush paintings are on exhibition a Chinese scholar might demonstrate the rapid stroking used in their creation. Dooley accounts for the astonishing TV enthusiasm of even the stuffiest scholars as "latent ham bursting forth...
...channel, which will operate under the call letters WGBH-TV, is the television affiliate of WGBH, the educational radio station partly supported by the University. The station's new studios will be in a building on the M.I.T. campus
Saturday's announcement that work has started on the transmitting tower of WGBH-TV marks the beginning of educational TV for Boston. To be run by the Lowell Institute, the new station will be financed entirely by foundation grants and funds from the ten institutions that comprise the Institute's Co-operative Broadcasting Council. Among these ten at least two, Harvard and Boston University, can supply students to help run the station...
...TV production: WHRB, the Dramatic Club, and Ivy films. But there are many other students in the College and at Radcliffe who, though not interested in any of these groups, would deserve a chance to get a start in television. And there must be a place for them in WGBH-TV...