Surprise Reel
Surprise Reel
B&W Kinescope from the National Center for School & College Television. Essentially a low-budget commercial promoting an extensive at-home telecourse series, grades K-12 and beyond. Featured here is a host of professional teachers strutting their educational stuff for the camera in a TV studio. Primary school teacher Margaret Hodgins telling cam a story about elves and shoemakers; on a TV set crudely decorated to accommodate Ms. Hodgin s story . Stephanie (???) plays piano & sings a song about motion on a set decorated w/ play blocks; touch your shoulder, touch your knees . Louise McNamara teaches elementary science; CU tongue depressors being stacked; CUs scale model of human skeleton; CU rag doll, used to illustrate what would happen if we didn t have a skeleton . Tony Saletan plays guitar, sings Kinga Lao the Donkey on a down-home set; live sheep on set; dorky folk fella . Gene Gray teaches science (moon craters); makes craters in sand pit w/ hands The Wordsmith Robert W.L. Smith teaches English; smart yet smarmy fella; uses scarecrow as prop, removes head; places wordslates into computer for answers; capitol vs. capital debate . Excerpt from Meet the Arts, by Sonya Hamlin; CUs street light blinking, girl skipping rope, mouth chewing, girl walking, boy bouncing small ball, rope being tugged, pigeon walking . Gene Gray teaches about sun and moon orbits; good shots of Gene sitting on a moving dolly inside TV studio (cam & mic in shot; good behind the scenes material) . Accent on Music hosted by Ed Gilday; MIT concert band seated & performed in concert hall; var shots young nerdy band performing David Trimble, PhD, hosts Project History . James (???) hosts language class for teachers