XD9472 ” In Focus ” 1959 Educational Documentary on Television Use and Community Featuring Binghamton, NY

National Association of Broadcasters, “In Focus”

“Program is about television broadcasting and the uses of television in one community, that of Binghamton, New York. Interviewed about television are an aviation plant technician, a dairy farmer, a housewife, a librarian, a teacher and a museum director. Excerpts featured in this documentary include a program on fighter pilots flying in formation, narrated by Walter Cronkite; a program about the music and dance of India; sports and news programming highlights; a live brain surgery operation narrated by Eric Sevareid; an interview with a drug addict; an interview by Edward R. Murrow with Indian Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru; a telecast of “Sleeping Beauty”; a children’s science program, with Frank Baxter; and an educational program, with Chet Huntley speaking about nuclear energy.”

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