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Go to HomepageReel Number: 221166-01
Color: Black and White
Sound: SD
Year / Date: 1957
Country: USA
Location:
TC Begins: 09:00:13
TC Ends: 09:14:31
Duration: 00:14:18
The Challenge Pt 1 of 3 Westinghouse Broadcasting Company in association w/ National Education Association NEA Narrated by Jack Chase, reading from White House Conference report. Montage of boys rolling down hillside, girls on swings, small kids in amusement park boat ride. 09:00:57 Kids doing crafts in schools, clapping, singing etc. CU pictures of Presidents Washington, Jefferson, Lincoln, Eisenhower. 09:01:35 Work book for White House conference on education, people walking on Washington streets. Signs for other meetings held locally. 09:02:02 First grade (?) boy at desk reading book, board meeting, school construction, teacher at blackboard, older people meeting and talking in small groups. 09:02:53 Looking at tall buildings across river w/ recreation boats. KDKA-TV sign. Golden Gate bridge and CU of report. 09:03:27 Kids in classroom take books out of desks. Two boys behind horses on wagon. People walking on large city sidewalk. School, boy w/ blacksmith, boys w/ farmer in corn field. Ext. of small public schools and in bad repair. 09:04:30 What should our schools accomplish (from report). Classroom with kids of various ages & teachers working with them. Accounting class, mechanics, gymnasium. Biology lab. Teachers at blackboards. 09:05:24 Vocational education classes in many areas: cooking; welding; accounting; grooming horses. 09:06:49 Teacher reading to black kids. White boys at blackboard with rocket drawn. Chemistry or biology lab & microscope. 09:07:00 Black children praying in classroom. 09:07:30 Small children pledging allegiance w/ flag. School board members 09:08:09 High school children onto school buses, buses past camera. Very small school. Very large school and ghetto kids into it. 09:08:52 Farm and suburbs. Partially filled school. City streets in large cities. Large building & interior w/ meeting of parents talking. New York City scene. Smaller school buildings & larger. 09:10:20 High school students into large California school. Younger students at desks working. Massachusetts Department of Education with flag flying. Men looking at plans. 09:11:45 Overcrowded classroom, many kids standing around back reading. Construction of school w/ men shoveling & bulldozers working. Steel put in place. 09:12:34 Small child, children outdoors & in gymnasium. More construction. Good lower working class post-war suburban street w/ kids running up street. More crowded class. Construction, brick-laying. Wooden school houses in poor condition. Non-stop narration; Short scenes; Americana 1950s;