As I’d researched on Prospects of Mankind, I found a very few resources about the TV show itself, and to make the matter worse, they lacked the transcribed documents, which was an atrocious challenge at my part. Fortunately, I managed to ask Christy Regenhardt and Mary Jo Binker, who are the editors of Eleanor Roosevelt Papers Project and whom I had also interned with last summer, to email the transcribed documents that I worked on even though I only transcribed about ten documents, and it was not that much as I had expected. But at least, they provide the unique documentation on the most important figures and events that shaped twentieth-century history at home and abroad.
Despite, I am focusing on the framework that consists of the structures of exhibition design and the development of visitor experiences, too. I intend to “develop” a history/narrative exhibition of the Prospects of Mankind, where I am researching on the structures of a history/narrative exhibition and visitor experiences/expectations right now.
Hello, Kellie! In your search, have you come across the Wisconsin Historical Society's National Educational Television Records, 1951-1969? http://digicoll.library.wisc.edu/cgi/f/findaid/findaid-idx?c=wiarchives;cc=wiarchives;q1=Carnegie%20Commission;rgn=main;view=text;didno=uw-whs-us0066af
ReplyDeleteIt looks like they have a series of photographs, a series of press releases, and a subseries of pre-production and evaluation documents. The latter, called "Subseries 8C" may contain the following:
"...correspondence and memos, evaluations and reports, agreements and contracts, proposals, expenditure requests, clippings, program research scripts and script outlines...information on the origin of a program, its producer, cast, and budget, who used it, and occasionally information on its actual production, [and] fundraising." It might be worth inquiring about what documents they have for the Prospects of Mankind, and whether or not they can make some of them digitally available. Best of luck!
Please also see this site for Brandeis University Archives and Special Collections for a listing of episodes.
ReplyDeletehttps://lts.brandeis.edu/research/archives-speccoll/findingguides/archives/publictelevision/pom.html