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26 Episodes 1952 - 1953
Episode 1
Sun, Nov 9, 195230 mins
The program has six segments: (1) "The Trial of Anne Boleyn" (drama portraying the last days of Henry VIII's second wife), (2) "The Bad Men" (TV play), (3) "The Mikado" (scene from the comic opera), (4) "Witch Doctor" (featuring a Haiti voodoo dance ceremony), (5) "Motion Picture X-Rays" (feature on X-rays), and (6) "Requiem" (narration of Armistice Day tribute).
Episode 2
Sun, Nov 16, 195290 mins
The program has six segments: (1) "Lincoln Part I: The End and the Beginning" (drama tracing the end and beginning of Abraham Lincoln's life), (2) "The Telephone" (comic operatic sketch), (3) "Leonardo da Vinci" (short portrayal of the Italian polymath), (4) "Lonely Hearts Ballet" (showing of a 1952 ballet film short), (5) "Flagg Dog Training School" (feature), and (6) "Plastics" (short documentary).
Episode 3
Sun, Nov 23, 195230 mins
The program has five segments: (1) "The Twelve Pound Look" (J.M. Barrie story), (2) "The Stranger Left No Card" (reshowing of a 1952 filmed short story), (3) "Photography" (featuring the work of an eminent photographer), (4) "Three-Cornered Hat" (painting to the music of De Falla), and (5) "Soil Erosion" (short documentary).
Episode 4
Sun, Nov 30, 195230 mins
The program has five segments: (1) "Lincoln, Part II: Early Boyhood" (drama tracing Abraham Lincoln's early youth), (2) "A Christmas Tie" (William Saroyan story), (3) "Tugboat Captain" (documentary), (4) "The Automobile" (short feature), and (5) "Dance Madness" (French ballet production).
Episode 5
Sun, Dec 7, 1952
The program has five segments: (1) "The Trial of Ben Jonson" (play), (2) "Jean Sibelius" (celebration of the composer's 87th birthday), (3) "The Dagger" (showing of a 1952 film ballet short), (4) "Rowland Emett" (the cartoonist displays some of his ingenious whimsical inventions), and (5) "Slow motion and High-Speed Photography" (feature).
Episode 6
Sun, Dec 14, 195230 mins
The program has four segments: (1) "Lincoln Part III: Growing Up" (drama tracing Abraham Lincoln's adolescent years), (2) "Mother Goose" (reading of Christmas fairy tales), (3) "Biography of a Fish" (feature on the stickleback fish), and (4) "Children's Books" (discussion with two authors of children's literature).
Episode 7
Sun, Dec 21, 1952
The program has three segments: (1) "The Trial of Mr. Pickwick" (Dickens-based story), (2) "Agnes DeMille's 'Rodeo' " (dance episode from the ballet), and (3) "Palle Alone in the World" (showing of a 1949 Swedish fantasy film).
Episode 8
Sun, Dec 28, 1952
The program has five segments: (1) "My Brother Henry" (J.M. Barrie story), (2) "Walt Disney's 'Peter Pan' " (film preview), (3) "Pictures at an Exhibition" (dance interpretation of Moussorgsky's suite for orchestra), (4) (Leopold Stokowski conducts Christmas carol singers), and (5) "William Faulkner" (interview with the prize-winning novelist).
Episode 9
Sun, Jan 4, 1953
The program has five segments: (1) "The Man in the Cool, Cool Moon" (play), (2) "The Bear" (scene from Chekhov play), (3) "Dance Congress" (showing of a 1952 ballet film short), (4) "Letters to be Answered" (Alistair Cooke replies to letters of comment and inquiry), and (5) "Travel by Bus" (short feature).
Episode 10
Sun, Jan 11, 195330 mins
The program has five segments: (1) "Lincoln Part IV: New Salem" (tracing Lincoln's arrival in New Salem), (2) "Henry V, Act 5, Scene 2" (famous Shakespearean love scene), (3) "Jose Greco" (production of Ravel's 'Bolero'), (4) "Old Time Aviation" (celebration in film of 50th anniversary of aviation), and (5) "Role of a Rescue Helicopter in Korea" (feature).
Episode 11
Sun, Jan 18, 1953
The program has five segments: (1) "Vive!" (story), (2) "The Servant with Two Masters" (play), (3) "Raymond Loewy" (the industrial designer discusses examples of his work), (4) "Barn Dance" (ingenious use of time-lapse photography and film editing to produce dance effects), and (5) "The Haircut" (comedy feature).
Episode 12
Sun, Jan 25, 1953
A visit with artist Thomas Hart Benton, his daughter Jessie and his guest Claude Rains, Benton reads from "Huckleberry Finn" and Rains recites Carl Sandburg poetry; movie theaters of the silent era are featured with a showing of the 1914 film "While the Tide Was Rising;" a segment of the Roberto Rossellini film "The Flowers of Saint Francis" (1950) is show; The Benny Goodman Trio performs.
Episode 13
Sun, Feb 1, 1953
The program has three segments: (1) "Die Fledermaus" (English-language production based on Johann Strauss' opera), (2) (interview with its conductor, Eugene Ormandy), and (3) "Heart of the City" (short feature on the automobile industry and trade).
Episode 14
Sun, Feb 8, 195330 mins
The program has five segments: (1) "Lincoln Part V: Ann Rutledge" (tracing Lincoln's early political career), (2) "Napoleon's Love Letters" (dialogue from love letters between Napoleon Bonaparte and Josephine), (3) "The Pelican" (wildlife feature), (4) "Valentines" (tracing the origin of Valentine's Day and the exchange of valentines), and (5) (driver training film).
Episode 15
Sun, Feb 15, 1953
The program has six segments: (1) "The Oyster and the Pearl" (TV play), (2) "Wheat Germ" (time-lapse photography feature), (3) "Rospigliosi Cup" (exhibition of the famous decorative ornament made in gold and enamel, displayed at the Metropolitan Museum of Art), (4) "Under the Bridges of Paris" (showing of a 1952 French ballet presentation), (5) "La Boheme Preview" (interview with cast members in rehearsal for the next edition's scheduled production), and (6) "Radar" (feature on equipment and supplies).
Episode 16
Sun, Feb 22, 1953
The program has only one segment: "La Boheme" (English-language production of Puccini's opera).
Episode 17
Sun, Mar 1, 195330 mins
The program has five segments: (1) "The Happy Journey" (Thornton Wilder story), (2) "The Blind Man" (documentary of a typical day in the life of a blind man), (3) "The Coronation Ceremony" (story of the English coronation ceremony and Elizabeth II's forthcoming coronation), (4) "The Five Gifts of Life" (ballet based on Mark Twain's story), and (5) "The Income Tax" (short feature on the history of income tax).
Episode 18
Sun, Mar 8, 1953
The program has six segments: (1) "A Lodging for the Night" (adaptation of Robert Louis Stevenson story), (2) "Pimpinella" (German puppet film), (3) "Olga Coelho" (the famed Brazilian soprano and guitarist performs native folk music of Brazil), (4) "An Early Science Fiction Film" (showing of a 1909 English film, 'The Airship Destroyer', predicting a war of the future), (5) "Reforestation" (feature), and (6) "Traffic Engineering" (findings of case traffic studies at the Yale School of Traffic Engineering).
Episode 19
Sun, Mar 15, 1953
The program has five segments: (1) "The Last Night of Don Juan" (play), (2) "Animated Genesis" (showing of an excerpt from a 1952 abstract film about cell division and genetics), (3) "Country Editor" (feature on small-town American family-run weekly newspaper), (4) "Highway Construction" (short feature), and (5) "Piano and Pianist" (a Chopin nocturne played on the world's oldest surviving piano at the New York Metropolitan Museum of Art).
Episode 20
Sun, Mar 22, 1953
The program has six segments: (1) "Three Maidens and the Devil" (ballet), (2) "Happy Birthday, Aunt Sarah" (musical parody), (3) "Audubon's Birds of America" (highlights of the life and illustrations of the famous painter of wild birds), (4) "Do It Yourself" (feature on the do-it-yourself craze), (5) "The Young Fox" (showing of a Swedish film documentary), and (6) "Fisherman's Holiday" (showing of an Italian film short).
Episode 21
Sun, Mar 29, 1953
The program has five segments: (1) "Lord Byron's Love Letter" (Tennessee Williams play), (2) "135th Street" (Gershwin musical with all-black cast), (3) "Photomicrography" (featuring the use of micro- and high-speed photography in industrial processes), (4) "Lincoln-Rutledge Debate" (discussion on the authenticity of the alleged love affair between Lincoln and Ann Rutledge), and (5) "Response to the Lincoln Series" (viewers' response to James Agee's Lincoln films).
Episode 22
Sun, Apr 5, 1953
The program has five segments: (1) "Grandma Moses" (showing of a 1950 film short documenting the life and work of the then 90-year-old primitive artist), (2) "Everyman" (morality play), (3) "The Drift to One Eye" (a reading of whimsical musings by Robert Benchley), (4) "Trip to the Moon" (showing of the classic 1902 film short by Georges Melies), and (5) "Maine Chance" (unknown content).
Episode 23
Sun, Apr 12, 1953
The program has four segments: (1) "Toy Symphony with Stokowski" (Haydn's 'Toy Symphony' and Britten's 'Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra' with commentary), (2) "World We Live in" (featuring articles from LIFE magazine on the 'Face of the Land'), (3) "The Stranger Left No Card" (repeat showing of a 1952 filmed short story), and (4) "Formation of Mountains" (animated feature).
Episode 24
Sun, Apr 19, 1953
This program has five segments: (1) "The Abracadabra Kid" (story), (2) "Midnight Ride of Paul Revere" (reading of Longfellow's famous poem), (3) "Trial by Jury" (Gilbert and Sullivan's comic opera), (4) "Images Medievales" (showing of an excerpt from a 1949 film about life in the Middle Ages as shown by miniature illuminated manuscripts), and (5) "The New Bus" (informational film).
Episode 25
Sun, Apr 26, 1953
The program has five segments: (1) "A Tale of Two Cities" (reading of an excerpt, 'The Fancy Ball', from Charles Dickens' novel), (2) "Gaite Parisienne" (ballet to music by Offenbach), (3) "Figgerin' of Aunt Wilma" (James Thurber story), (4) "Bombardier Training" (tracing the development of aerial bombing), and (5) "Modern Art and Sculpture" (looking at key examples of modern sculptures).
Episode 26
Sun, May 3, 1953
1865: Swiss captain Bluntschli fights as mercenary in the war between Bulgaria and Serbia. When his group's attacked by a few Bulgarian troopers, he learns that he's got the wrong ammunition for his cannon and has to flee. His flight leads him right into the bedroom of his enemy's fiancée.