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 Volume 4 Issue 5 May 2000

Video Conferencing at The Museum of Television & Radio

The Museum of Television and Radio is a public archive of over 100,000 television and radio programs that span the history of television and radio. Through original footage, reporting and dramatization, television programs can give us access to material unavailable through other sources. These television and radio programs act as a window to the past and present, illuminating significant events in our nation's history and culture. How can you expose your students to these programs? By video conferencing with The Museum of Television & Radio's Education Department.

During each session, a Museum Educator will introduce clips from past and current television programs from the Museum's collection and then participate in question and answer sessions with the students. In order to participate, schools should be able to connect to a bridge at 384kbps (3 ISDN lines), but the program is also available at 128 kbps or 1 ISDN line. Each conference is ninety minutes but can be adapted into two forty-five minute sessions.

Fees for these video conference field trips are as follows:

  • Program Overview: FREE
  • Technical demonstration: FREE
  • 90-minute video conference field trip of your choice: $100.

College Class Listing

Live Television
By the end of 1947, about 170,000 television sets had been purchased in the United States. That number jumped to two million by the end of 1950. With the advent of live television in the late 1940s, millions of Americans sitting at home in their living rooms witnessed events all over the world as they occurred. This unique sensation of being in two places at once is an essential part of the live television experience. This class examines the history of live television drama and its roots in theater, as well as the reasons for its popularity and success.

Raising the Curtain on the Cold War The Cold War began in television's infancy and escalated as the medium matured, allowing us to use fiction, news and documentary programs as primary documents to trace the course of events. This class uses those programs to explore the way television audiences from the 50's to the 90's were exposed to issues such as espionage, the blacklist, and Communism in Eastern Europe and beyond.

Hitchcock by Hitchcock
This class serves an introduction to the small screen work of the master of suspense, including the series Alfred Hitchcock Presents (1955-1965) which featured his most famous thematic and stylistic elements. Clips include examples of Hitchcock's tongue-in-cheek introductions, his macabre humor and the twist endings made famous by the film masterpiece Psycho (1960).

Network Radio
This class presents a history and analysis of network "radio days" from the late 1920s through the early 1960s. The popular genres of radio which were later to surface on television: soap operas, game shows, variety shows, situation comedies, anthologies, and westerns will be discussed as well as the way in which news was presented: from President Roosevelt's fireside chats to The March of Time, and coverage of World War II.

Contact
Cid Pearlman,
Video Conference Coordinator

The Museum of Television & Radio
465 N. Beverly Drive
Beverly Hills, CA 90210
(310) 786-1099 phone
(310) 786-1086 fax
cpearlman@mtr.org
http://www.mtr.org
(310) 858-8709 ISDN bonded (384 kbs)



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