Sixth Grade Class of the Schuyler School in Kearney, New Jersey: “We
learned to play these instruments by watching a television class”
The students play Old Folks At Home and The
Children’s Marching Song (better known today as This Old Man) on tonettes and flutaphones, recorder-like
instruments. Their television teacher
Richard Berg is in the audience and their classroom teacher Doris Jackson
conducts the group. (The students are
clearly thrilled to see Mr. Berg in the flesh.) During this time, New York’s
independent station WPIX-11 ran educational programming during the day. In 1962, WNET-13 would become New York’s
preeminent educational station and the flagship for the National Educational
Network, the precursor to PBS.
“Teddy”: “I was captured by Theodore Roosevelt (1914)”
Teddy is a giant tortoise, a resident
of the Bronx Zoo. He was found in
Southern Brazil by the former president and his companions during the
Roosevelt-Randon Scientific Expedition.
That mission was famed for its exploration of the “River of Doubt” in
the Amazon basin. The team initially named the tortoise “Lizzie”, but when he
arrived in the Bronx, the zoo realized he was a male, and chose to name him
after his famous donor. Teddy was the oldest resident of the zoo at the time,
and was expected to live much longer, but in an unfortunate accident would
drown in a moat in 1962.
Special Guest Vincent Price brings
with him images from classic works of art, to which he and Garry provide funny
captions. This is based on a popular
humor book of the day, Captions
Courageous (Abelard-Schuman 1958).
The horror roles for which Price would be remembered are for the most
part still ahead of him. At this point
in his career, the public mostly associates him with his vast knowledge of fine
art.
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