Camera Three Season 23 Episodes

Episode 1

Leo Smit Remembers Stravinsky and Copland

Sun, Sep 18, 1977

Pianist Leo Smit recalls his associations with Igor Stravinsky and Aaron Copland, and performs excerpts from their works.

Episode 2

Sam Bimbo

Sun, Sep 25, 1977

Episode 3

The Golden Apple Part 1

Sun, Oct 2, 1977

The story of Ulysses, Penelope, Paris, Ajax, and Helen of Troy, but set in the early 1900s in Washington State.

Episode 4

The Golden Apple Part 2

Sun, Oct 9, 1977

Episode 5

Victor Borge

Sun, Oct 16, 1977

Selections by Victor Borge and cellist Jascha Silberstein include a medley from 'Countess Maritza' by Emmerich Kalman.

Episode 6

A Prince of Bali

Sun, Oct 23, 1977

Episode 7

Francois Truffaut

Sun, Oct 30, 1977

Francois Truffaut converses with Richard Roud, Director of the 15th New York Film Festival, for the American premier of his film "The Man Who Loved Women."

Episode 8

Otto Mesmer and Felix the Cat

Sun, Nov 6, 1977

A film about Otto Messmer, the creator of Felix the Cat, is presented with interviews with him and Al Eugster, who worked with Messmer in the 1920s.

Episode 9

Beaubourg: Part 1

Sun, Nov 13, 1977

First of 2-parts: Beaubourg presents the planning, construction and controversial reception of the Georges Pompidou National Center for Art and Culture built in Paris, 1977.

Episode 10

Beaubourg: Part 2

Sun, Nov 20, 1977

In part 2 of Beaubourg the focus is on showing the many public rooms (libraries, classrooms and research facilities of the new International arts center in Paris.

Episode 11

Anna Sokolow: Choreographer - Part 1

Sun, Dec 4, 1977

Episode 12

Anna Sokolow: Choreographer - Part 2

Sun, Dec 11, 1977

Episode 13

An Alternative Louvre

Sun, Dec 18, 1977

Pierre Quoniam, director of the Louvre, provides host Rosamond Bernier with a tour of the museum. As an alternative to the standard tours he shows his personal favorites.

Episode 14

Alberta Hunter: One Hundred Years from Today

Sun, Jan 1, 1978

Episode 15

Filming Ballet: The Turning Point

Sun, Jan 8, 1978

Episode 16

The Civilized City: George Nelson

Sun, Jan 22, 1978

Architect George Nelson illustrates with photography his views on the nature of the urban center in our time and through history.

Episode 17

Irene Worth: Actress

Sun, Jan 29, 1978

Episode 18

Dimitri Shostakovich: Part 1

Sun, Feb 5, 1978

Episode 19

Dimitri Shostakovich: Part 2

Sun, Feb 12, 1978

Episode 20

Andre Kertesz: Everything is Photograph

Sun, Feb 19, 1978

The father of 35mm photography, Andre Kertesz, talks about his life and career.

Episode 21

Theater Laboratoire Vicinal: Real Reel

Sun, Feb 26, 1978

Margaret Croyden introduces the Theatre Laboratoire Vicinal, an experimental Belgian theater group specializing in non-verbal or multi-language pieces. Anne West follows with a solo tour de force performance.

Episode 22

The Cinema of Senegal

Sun, Mar 5, 1978

Senegalese director Ousmane Sembene discusses cinema in Senegal with his compatriot in African filmmaking Paulin Soumanou Vieyra and Larry Kardish from the Museum of Modern Art in New York City. Topics discussed concern art in a post- colonial society, censorship and the conflict between Christianity and Islam.

Episode 23

Ram Thai-Dance Art of Thailand

Sun, Mar 12, 1978

A presentation of the various dance types of Thailand conducted by musicologist Faubion Bowers.

Episode 24

Celebration of the Egg

Sun, Mar 19, 1978

Episode 25

Living in the Louvre

Sun, Apr 2, 1978

Episode 26

No Need to Tell the Children

Sun, Apr 9, 1978

Episode 28

Red Grooms and "Ruckus Manhattan"

Sun, Apr 23, 1978

Episode 29

Elizabeth Swados and Her Music: Part 1

Sun, May 7, 1978

Episode 30

Elizabeth Swados and Her Music: Part 2

Sun, May 14, 1978

Episode 31

Forward in Space and Time

Sun, May 21, 1978

Episode 32

The Art of the Theremin

Sun, May 28, 1978

Invented in the 1920s, the theremin is an electronic musical instrument and it is the subject of a film by Robert and Shirleigh Moog (inventors of the Moog synthesizer).

Episode 33

The American Comic Strip: Part 1

Sun, Jun 4, 1978

A two-part look at "The American Comic Strip," from one-panel cartoons to animated cartoons. Part one examines humor in the comics are features director George Lucas, animator Ralph Bakshi, and artist Dirk Browne.

Episode 34

The American Comic Strip: Part 2

Sun, Jun 11, 1978

Episode 35

Variations by Andrew Lloyd Webber

Sun, Jun 18, 1978

Episode 36

Cinema of Yugoslavia: Part I

Sun, Jun 25, 1978

Study of the emerging cinema in Yugoslavia with the film movement called "novi film".

Episode 37

Cinema of Yugoslavia: Part 2

Sun, Jul 2, 1978

Second of a two-part program on The popularity of the Yugoslav cinema: the film industry and the freedom from overt censorship.

Episode 38

A Peek at Burlesque

Sun, Jul 9, 1978

Episode 39

The First Fifty Years of Television

Sun, Jul 16, 1978

The first fifty years of television are discussed by journalists Cliff Jahr and Jeff Greenfield.

Episode 40

Caught in the Act

Sun, Jul 23, 1978

Singers Julie Kurratz and David Summers are two rising stars who make their television debut.

Episode 41

Harold Rome's Pins and Needles

Sun, Jul 30, 1978

Composer-lyricist Harold Rome discusses the genesis of his musical review "Pins and Needles" and its current revival.