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45 Episodes 1974 - 1975
Episode 1
Sun, Sep 8, 1974
A montage of images of the first moon landing makes the central statement in Scott Bartlett's experimental film "Moon" in the first of two parts presenting the filmmaker.
Episode 2
Sun, Sep 15, 1974
An artist's struggles to reconcile conflicting components of his character are revealed in "1970," an autobiographical work by independent filmmaker Scott Bartlett.
Episode 3
Sun, Sep 22, 1974
Part 1 of a two part documentary focusing on the making of the BBC 12-part show "The Family" which followed the daily lives of a British working class family, the Wilkins.
Episode 4
Sun, Sep 29, 1974
Part 2 of the documentary on the 12-part program "The Family" includes producer Paul Watson discussing the public outcry directed at the Wilkins; TV critic Dennis Potter speaking of the exploitation of "The Family;" and Watson reporting on what has happened to the family since the broadcasts.
Episode 5
Sun, Oct 13, 1974
An experimental theater group, Otrabanda, travels down the Mississippi River stopping at various towns to perform their improvisational and vaudeville style of theater.
Episode 6
Sun, Oct 20, 1974
One of the first surrealists, Max Ernst, reveals in his art what he terms "the landscape of the mind." The 83-year-old artist, now living in France, is profiled by his longtime friend, art critic Rosamond Bernier.
Episode 7
Sun, Oct 27, 1974
A marriage of choreography and video techniques occurs in this two-part program on Merce Cunningham and his dance company. Cunningham makes use of multiple screen images.
Episode 8
Sun, Nov 3, 1974
Merce Cunningham and his dance company demonstrate how how video techniques can be used to enhance dance movements. This is the conclusion of a two-part show.
Episode 9
Sun, Nov 10, 1974
Henry Moore, regarded by many critics as the foremost English sculptor of modern times, is interviewed at his home near London. In the first of two programs, Moore, now 76, talks about the aesthetics of sculpture.
Episode 10
Sun, Nov 17, 1974
"There's no retirement for an artist" says English sculptor Henry Moore, whose career stretches back to the 1929s. In part two of two shows Moore reflects on his life and career.
Episode 11
Sun, Nov 24, 1974
An unusual approach to classical Greek theater is taken in a trilogy directed by Andrei Serban. TV adaptations of two of the plays are performed in the first of two programs. Serban's rendering of "Medea" and "Electra" features actors speaking in Greek, Latin and other languages.
Episode 12
Sun, Dec 1, 1974
Emotions rather than words convey the meaning of "The Trojan Women" in this TV adaptation of Euripides' classic tragedy. Director Andrei Serban has his actors speak in a mixture of foreign languages and guttural cries, but what's more important are the moods of suffering and retribution they express.
Episode 13
Sun, Dec 8, 1974
Classical music by black composers is performed by the CBS Chamber Orchestra. Included are excerpts from "Ernestine," an opera by 18th-century French composer Joseph St. Georges.
Episode 14
Sun, Dec 15, 1974
"Absolutely enthralling" was critic Clive Barnes' praise for "Brief Lives, a one-man show starring Roy Dotrice.It focuses on the last day in the life of 17th-century historian, biographer and gossip John Aubrey. In excerpts from the play, Dotrice portrays this eccentric old man.
Episode 15
Sun, Dec 22, 1974
A medieval Christmas music concert from 13th-century Spain is presented by the Waverly Consort. Dressed in authentic period costumes, members of the ensemble perform on such rare instruments as the shawm, which is similar to an oboe.
Episode 16
Sun, Dec 29, 1974
Katushiro Oida (known as Yoshi to his friends) is a Japanese-born actor-mime-musician who has been invited to improvise with a group of young people from the New York School of the Death.
Episode 17
Sun, Jan 5, 1975
Episode 18
Sun, Jan 12, 1975
Rosamond Bernier interviews Joseph H. Hirshhorn, private art collector, and tours the Hirshhorn Museum in Washington D.C., which houses his collection of 19th and 20th century art and sculpture.
Episode 19
Sun, Jan 19, 1975
Episode 20
Sun, Jan 26, 1975
Episode 21
Mon, Feb 3, 1975
Episode 22
Sun, Feb 9, 1975
Episode 23
Sun, Feb 16, 1975
Episode 24
Sun, Feb 23, 1975
Sir Michael Tippett discusses his life and work as a composer-conductor in Great Britain.
Episode 25
Sun, Mar 2, 1975
Episode 26
Sun, Mar 9, 1975
Episode 27
Sun, Mar 16, 1975
Episode 28
Sun, Mar 23, 1975
Episode 29
Sun, Apr 6, 1975
Episode 30
Sun, Apr 13, 1975
Episode 31
Sun, Apr 20, 1975
Episode 32
Sun, Apr 27, 1975
Episode 33
Sun, May 4, 1975
A day in the life of the most powerful Zen priest in Japan, Tachibana Taiki, called the "great turtle priest."
Episode 34
Sun, May 11, 1975
After chemicals were dumped by a factory into the ocean, mysterious diseases and birth deformities were reported in the coastal Japanese towns where villagers ate the fish caught in local waters. Photographer W. Eugene Smith and his wife documented the facts and brought it to world attention. They appear in conversation with photographer-writer William Pierce and James Hughes.
Episode 35
Sun, May 18, 1975
A filmed exploration of the thousand year old Buddhist shrine Borobudur in Java, Indonesia.
Episode 36
Sun, May 25, 1975
Episode 37
Sun, Jun 1, 1975
Hollywood special effects are discussed by Linwood Dunn and Robert Abel. Dunn, from the glory days, created the ape in "King Kong." Abel presents the next generation and presents special effects from a recent 7-Up commercial he created.
Episode 38
Sun, Jun 8, 1975
A documentary on John Whitney Sr., an early innovator of films made by computer-driven cameras. Excerpts from his films are presented.
Episode 39
Sun, Jun 15, 1975
Episode 40
Sun, Jun 22, 1975
Episode 41
Sun, Jun 29, 1975
Episode 42
Sun, Jul 6, 197529 mins
Author M.F.K. Fisher, often considered the dean of American food writers, in a casual monologue about her life and work with illustrations from her own photo archives. She talks in her house in Sonoma, CA., where she has lived for many years. Author of many books, including "With Bold Knife and Fork", "Consider the Oyster" and "How to Cook a Wolf", Mary Frances Kennedy Fisher was also a screen writer, a novelist and short story writer (often published in "The New Yorker" magazine) and lived for long periods abroad. It was to food that she returned again and again, and it is through writing about food that she conveyed her view of the life of her times. "When I write about food and hunger I am really writing about love, and the hunger for it, and warmth, and the love of it - it is all one."
Episode 43
Sun, Jul 13, 1975
Northwestern University Professor Samuel Schoenbaum, an Elizabethan scholar, and Columbia University's Dean of the School of Arts, Bernard Beckerman, join author-critic Margaret Croyden in a discussion of William Shakespeare and his plays. This is part 1 of 2.
Episode 44
Sun, Jul 20, 1975
In part 2: actor John Houseman joins critic Margaret Croyden and her guests Bernard Beckman and Prof. Samuel Schoenbaum for a continued discussion about William Shakespeare and his plays.
Episode 45
Sun, Jul 27, 1975