Radio/Television/Film Department Departmental Administrative Records 1939-1968

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Radio/Television/Film Department Departmental Administrative Records 1939-1968

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This series fills twelve boxes and is arranged in four major subseries: general files; financial records; records relating to the Summer Radio and Television Institute (1942-1958); and records relating to the summer National Defense Education Act Media Specialist Institutes (1965 and 1967). The general files occupy two boxes and span the period 1939-1968. They include correspondence and other materials related to a variety of topics including the establishment of radio station WNUR; the operation of the Department's film lending library; and the taping and distribution of the radio series “Lessons in Learning,” narrated by Dean Lindley J. Stiles of the School of Education. The financial records occupy one box and consist of five account books documenting transactions in the department's accounts over the period 1952-67, arranged in chronological order. The records of the Summer Radio and Television Institutes (1942-1958) fill four boxes and include correspondence, completed application forms, schedules, lecture outlines and class handouts, and financial records. Records of the 1965 and 1967 NDEA Media Specialist Institutes occupy five boxes and include correspondence of the Institute director, Charles L. Hunter, and his assistants; letters of inquiry; completed applications; and handouts and information sheets.

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Northwestern University (Evanston, Ill.). Department of Radio, Television, and Film

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Instruction in radio was begun at Northwestern during the 1931-32 academic year, when a course entitled “Radio Advertising Copy” was offered by the School of Journalism. The School of Speech entered the field of radio in the fall of 1935 with courses in radio acting and writing taught by Albert Crews, who received his M.A. from the School of Speech in 1937 and chaired its Department of Radio until 1943. The Department began offering graduate degree programs in 1946, and ...