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Cooney, Joan Ganz,. Reminiscences of Joan Ganz Cooney : oral history, 1998.

Title: Reminiscences of Joan Ganz Cooney : oral history, 1998.

Early childhood and education: Phoenix, Arizona; influence of parochial schooling on philanthropic values; Dominican College of San Rafael, University of Arizona at Tucson, degree in early childhood education; desire to work in television, move to New York City: publicity work for soap operas and U.S. Steel Corporation; volunteer for Partisan Review; work for Public Broadcasting Service [PBS] Channel Thirteen: producer of cultural and political debates; work for weekly show Court of Reason; U.S. policy on Cuba, civil rights, communism, education for young children, documentaries, winning Emmy for documentary Poverty, Anti-Poverty and the Poor; funding problems at Channel Thirteen; interest in potential power of educational and public television; research on affective versus cognitive learning styles and impact on creation of television shows for children; colleagueship with Lloyd Morrisett; Carnegie Corporation of New York [Carnegie] funding of 1966 three-month study of cognitive development, influence of psychologist Samuel Rabinowitz's research on how infants learn through sight; Children's Television Workshop: Sesame Street proposal, support from government, positive reception from Carnegie and the Ford Foundation, role of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting in targeting middle-class and disadvantaged children, efforts to gain nationwide audience; work with Jim Henson with puppets and Joe Raposo with music, status as semi-autonomous arm of National Educational Television; influence of Head Start, work with Educational Testing Service on curriculum; changing standards in television; creation of Non-Broadcast Materials Division for income, end of government monetary support in early eighties, expansion of programs to other countries.

ArchivalResource: transcript: 77 leaves.sound recording : 2 sound cassettes (105 min.)videorecording : 3 videocassettes (76 min.) : digital, betacam.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/269257033 View

Arthur Unger collection of recorded interviews [sound recording]

Title: Arthur Unger collection of recorded interviews [sound recording]

This collection contains the tapes of Mr. Unger's interviews with television, film and stage celebrities. Most of the interviews were made from 1965 through 1998 for use in conjunction with Unger's article writing activites. They include interviews of Alfred Hitchcock, Al Pacino, Buzz Aldrin, Alfre Woodard, the Beach Boys, Isaac Asimov, Bette Davis, Connie Chung, Derek Jacobi, Glenda Jackson, Helen Hayes, Muhammad Ali, Lucille Ball, Tom Brokaw, Redd Foxx, Katharine Hepburn, Bill Moyers, Tony Orlando, and many others. Also includes copies of recorded press conferences.

ArchivalResource: 1173

http://archives.nypl.org/rha/20491 View

Erik Barnouw Papers, 1920-1990.

Title: Erik Barnouw Papers 1920-1990.

ArchivalResource: 21 linear ft. (ca.2,200 items in 46 boxes).

http://findingaids.cul.columbia.edu/ead/nnc-rb/ldpd_4079647 View

Cooney, Joan Ganz. [Letter, 1981 Feb. 11 : to Fred Rogers].

Title: [Letter, 1981 Feb. 11 : to Fred Rogers].

Cooney thanks Fred Rogers for appearing on the television show "Sesame Street."

ArchivalResource: 1 item.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/236164394 View

Daley, Eliot A. [Letter, 1976 Dec. 10 : to Fred Rogers].

Title: [Letter, 1976 Dec. 10 : to Fred Rogers].

Eliot Daley told Joan Cooney about Fred Rogers' new television program, "Old Friends New Friends," and she was very excited.

ArchivalResource: 1 p.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/236164385 View

Carnegie Commission on the Future of Public Broadcasting. Records, 1969-1980.

Title: Records, 1969-1980.

Records, mainly 1977-1979, of a Carnegie Corporation-sponsored study of public broadcasting that made recommendations for improvement in a published report "A Public Trust." Included are research reports and related background materials of staff and consultants; correspondence of staff, Chairman William McGill, and Executive Director Sheila Mahony; testimony (by Joan Ganz Cooney, Fred Friendly, John Gardner, Walter Heller, Frank Mankiewicz, and others), and agendas for hearings and special meetings; work plans; press material; and clippings. Research carried out by staff included case studies of programs such as "The Adams Chronicles," "All Things Considered," and "Nova"; funding sources; innovations in technological dissemination; and public participation and visits to Minnesota Public Radio and the British Broadcasting Corporation. Also included is correspondence and other material pertaining to the Freedom of Information suit brought by the commission to discover the politicization of programming during the Nixon Administration. The processed portion of this collection is summarized above and is described in the register. Additional accessions are described below.

ArchivalResource: 10.6 c.f. (27 archives boxes); plusadditions of 201 tape recordings,448 photographs,445 negatives, and4 videorecordings.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/173699494 View

Barnouw, Erik, 1908-2001. Erik Barnouw papers, 1920-1990.

Title: Erik Barnouw papers, 1920-1990.

Correspondence, scripts, manuscripts, and reports regarding his activities in the American radio and film industries. Included are papers regarding projects for the United State Government, the Indian film industry, various television and radio networks, and private ventures. Also included is material regarding the Center for Mass Communications of Columbia University, in which Barnouw figured prominently and files for the books he has written.

ArchivalResource: 21 linear ft. ( 46 boxes)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/465279236 View

Cooney, Joan Ganz. [Interview with Joan Cooney] [sound recording] / Joan Cooney ; [interviewed by] Jim Day, Manhattan, 11/21/96.

Title: [Interview with Joan Cooney] [sound recording] / Joan Cooney ; [interviewed by] Jim Day, Manhattan, 11/21/96. 1996.

ArchivalResource: 1 sound cassette (ca. 100 min.) : analog, 1 7/8 ips, mono.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/41509983 View

Cooney, Joan Ganz. Reminiscences of Joan Ganz Cooney : oral history, 1972.

Title: Reminiscences of Joan Ganz Cooney : oral history, 1972.

ArchivalResource: Transcript: 24 leaves.Tape: 1 cassette.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122343084 View