Box 1

File — Box: U086.0001

Identifier: U086.0001

Staff Only

Abstract

Issues of the publication ''Call Letter'' from 1950 and 1952, audition memos, monologues, film scripts, contracts and correspondence in well-labeled folders. Proposals, 1961-1965 includes the 1961 requests for Ford Foundation funding by R. Russell Porter, former department chair for exploring ways in which television might be utilized for educational purposes in the classroom. This is in the form of two drafts. The second proposal, also a draft, is one from the department's Director of Research Harold Mendelsohn dated 1965 on a public survey on race relations between government agencies, including local police and minority groups. The box also includes the departments brochures and publications announcing course and program offerings from 1947 to 1967. The box also contains copies of the department's newsletter "Call Letter" which describes program happenings and member achievements. This collection consists of volumes 2 to 6 from 1950 to 1956.

Dates

1942-1966

Extent

1 Items : letter document box

Additional Description

Scope and Contents

From the Collection:

Although a small number of records, they contain a good deal of information on the Department of Radio - Television - Film, later Department of Mass Communications, and curently known as the Department of Media, Film, and Journalism. The Records contain mostly textual documents with some audio visual materials.