A series of documentaries on industrial change in the U.S.An online collection of early educational public radio content from the National Association of Educational Broadcasters (NAEB).
https://www.unlockingtheairwaves.org/programs/fifty-years-of-growth/
Gesamtlänge aller Episoden:
The American views his life
The American character joins the search for personal satisfaction amidst the plastic nature of groups. He penetrates change and accepts the challenge of his era.
Access to information
Time and space compress: Communication spawns a confusion of signals - a growing impression of electronic intensity as ideas and information challenge the media.
Seeking a human community
Sounds of people in search of an integrated life seem to lose the stability of the binding tie, but find it again in universal values.
Each according to his skill
The American character searches for health. Efficient, modern medicine stretches life. Social awareness joins technology in the race to meet demands.
The American views his life
The American character joins the search for personal satisfaction amidst the plastic nature of groups. He penetrates change and accepts the challenge of his era.
Access to information
Time and space compress: Communication spawns a confusion of signals - a growing impression of electronic intensity as ideas and information challenge the media.
A place for the family
Voices remember the family as it was, and talk of change seems more than just familiar. Questions form. Tradition and innovation combine in the living scene to shape answers.
Selling the consumer
Discretionary spending changes the balance between production and consumption. The American as consumer finds new patterns of purchase in supermarket and department stores.
To find more resources
The electric intensity of a steam-electric generator symbolizes the search for more natural resources. Demand competes with depletion; the country cries for energy, metal, land, water.
The challenge of work
Working people in the midst of industrial and social change; competition and cooperation combine on the farm, in the factory, at the desk, and behind the counter.