U.S.-U.S.S.R. exchange programs; Soviet TV programs for the young

We now present a program prepared in the Soviet Union for our listeners in the United States under the Soviet American agreement for cultural exchange. We present civic TV programs for the young. This suppose it's 11 o'clock in the morning in Moscow. Talks are gathered in front of their TV screens. Here is the type of program they might be watching. My telephone rang. Hello. Who's speaking. Where. Oh no one. Where do you happen to be gentle down grade 3. What do you

want some chocolate sweet to give my son the bottom agree. I pondered all the time will do you just want to bug you when you learn why this is the telephone one of the many stories by the children's writer corny to cough Skee often featured in TV versions for the very young the crocodile for the next. He was terribly vexed and purple x Thank you oh. You're right I'm sorry dear friend but I wish you could send a couple of panels of losses for me and my wife and the time. You do wear them last. Why Wednesday last I sent you a dozen or so good ones too you know. Those at your center just last Wednesday my dear. Well you

know already I fear. And now we are awaiting open ice and rain. I do have some got and I share my general game. But. Doesn't the US wait nogal lashes out. While Moscow youngsters stare at why that I'd at the TV screens. I'd like to tell you something about the author of this poem corny. You can't ski. The children love uncle to calfskin as they call him. Any one of them will be psyched to you. Historian Bruce about the cockroach that frightened the beasts of the forest. Even the elephants and tigers or about the evil crocodile It swallowed the sun. Or at the Jolly fly or perhaps kind doctor. Oh it hurts. Friend of all the animals.

I offered you crabs easy two years old. He wrote his first books for children half a century ago. They've been published and Republic in scores of millions of copies. Few authors have enjoyed as many editions as Granny. You can ski his stories for the tiny dots have been adapted for animated cartoons and puppet shows. The story about Dr Oh it hurts has been turned into a ballet for children. The author himself often reads his stories on TV programmes and it's hard to say whether children like dramatizations better. But right now Moscow tots are listening to a dramatization and the story is the telephone. Then somebody is put in a call. Then I call coming from two chimpanzees.

Sending some rocks when you need. To know who. Next called some cranes from the bogs. And we in the end. Jason from eating eggs and pain in our tummies is hateful. Besides we've got skills this year and this is some pills. You know real ugly will be great all day long. It's the same home thing. Doing only. One ring of my ring and my ring. I've been burning my mind through mounds bit and I'm sad. When we got back home. Why is it.

The right know. Where I'll come quickly. It's dreadful to tell what's happened. Earthquake or fire. No hippos stuck in the mire. Stuck in my mind or. How he'll be up to his ears by now. If you don't hurry here poor people will soon disappear and you can die I might go fly. Or not I'm not alive. Tommy don't shout. I'll help you to pull him out. By golly it's really our job to go out of a bog. Programs for children on Soviet TV. Last no more than two hours two in the morning and two in the evening. Medical experts say a longer period would be tiring. We've asked the lady

in charge of Moscow TV programmes for children what kind of features are given. Here's a translated version of the interview with Mrs. Valentino Finn doctora. What principle do you follow in making up the programme for the day. Well we can like to make it varied and each feature lively musical entertaining and informative. What does the programme usually include. There are two or three short animated cartoons and then we feature something educative. So a lesson in drawing or modeling in plasticine we show the children how to make toys and how to repair what they've broken. We sometimes hold a drawing of us writing contest. On other days we give a little concert with children as performers. Several times a week the sky

to puppet teaches the youngsters to read and write English. This is to help the schools that teach English. We also invited actor is from the children's theaters and Puppet Theater is to put on shows. Now we run two channels simultaneously one for preschool youngsters and children of the lower grades and the other for boys and girls of 12 to 16. One program for teenagers feature films and travel was also hobby features. We show the children what other boys and girls their age do to entertain themselves. They mother ships and aircraft and they design radios saying in glee clubs and put on plays and sometimes we invite prominent people to the studio to speak about their work. We find that teenagers like these glimpses into professions. You see as your teenagers feature films just what sort of feature films are historical pictures and films about children

and the biographies of composers actors and writers and films about heroic people. We also comedies and adventure pictures. And one of the films that you do not show teenagers. Well we do not show pictures about family troubles. They are beyond teenagers we feel there are some detective pictures we don't find suitable either is what I think it you do shows don't you. Yes we do. But there are more on the order of adventure films. I did get the pictures don't see the crime they don't play about violence or dead bodies. And that was a translated version of Joe Adam OD's interview with Mrs. Valentino conduct of the lady in charge of Moscow's TV programs for children. The little tell of yours we joined at the beginning of this feature to enjoy corny too costly story the telephone. I'm now watching an animated cartoon. Let's see what it's like. The

cartoon is called the first fiddle. The end. To a. Degree of. The A. What's up baby grasshopper was born. Now grasshoppers go fast. His mother and scarily finished the first lullaby when the young man leapt up and went hopping across the grass. The next morning Dad Harper announced to his son that it was time to begin lessons

and he took up the violin. It got here my middle line. You must learn to play my boy. This is the way you hold the violin. Then you take the bowl like this. And now watch how I play. It's. Just sitting. There. Dan Hopper plugged his ears and all the beasts in the FARs himself.

But Sonny Hopper was sure he could play as well as anyone and he started on to see the world. As soon Sonny Hopper came to England where butterflies were taking lessons and Grace was line their own teacher a German butterfly was saying. Yeah. Yeah. One two three one two for me. Lighter. Much. Lighter. Up into the air. Back down again. One two for me. One to see. Yeah that's right. Oh so you. Just. Go. Ahead. I don't have to know. I was. In the room.

What's there. Sonny Hopper lead times. Right his wings but the wings would not hold him. He collapsed on the ground for a moment he felt shame but only for a moment. That. Was. That. Soon Sonny Hopper saw Cindy's the tiny insects were hard at work building highways and storing away honey. The plan was for her.

Sally Hopper decided that these weren't doing as well as they could. He would show them how he picked up two pails of honey and hopped along the straw leading to the hives. Now this is really easy. I just watch how. Suddenly the strongest waves Sunny how her lost his balance and tumbled to the ground landing right in the holly that its last hour look pale. The bees laughed and the little remaining almost burst into tears. He had banged his legs and then he was stuck in the Harley. Now he began to understand that all work requires practice

and the work of others must be respected. Yeah. Well sonny Hopper returned home took out his violin and arranged it on his shoulder and began to practice. And almost harvest my life turned out for Sonny Hopper's first concert. Eh even. Though it was one of many TV films shown daily to our preschool children.

And lower graders the Soviet Union is one hundred thirty two TV stations present features in 32 languages of this country. Programs for the younger generation take up nearly a third of all telecasting time. The purpose followed in these programs was explained to Joe by Mrs Valentino the doctor. We tried to make our programs help the children understand the world around them. We wanted to know how Crees grow how fish live and how ships by the seas. We quickly teach them to appreciate people's work and to take good care of what surrounds them. We want our children to grow up to be honest men and women. We want them to value friendship and be good comrades. Another career because of our programs is this. The more they can increase the books music and the theatre. We're trying to foster an understanding of the beautiful in life. The air.

You've been listening to Soviet TV programs for the young. The cast included and at 6:00 a.m. Joe am off certain road in and out of your car. Lucy crowded new highs again. The program was prepared by United and directed by your evil speech. This program was prepared in the Soviet Union for listeners in the United States under the Soviet American agreement for cultural exchange. This is the national educational radio network.