NET Playhouse; Ofoeti. Part 1

thumbnail of NET Playhouse; Ofoeti. Part 1
This content has not been digitized. Please contact the contributing organization(s) listed below.
This record is featured in “National Educational Television.”
Series
NET Playhouse
Episode Number
36
Episode Number
11
Episode
Ofoeti. Part 1
Producing Organization
WQED (Television station : Pittsburgh, Pa.)
WQED (Television station : Pittsburgh, Pa.)
WQED (Television station : Pittsburgh, Pa.)
Contributing Organization
WQED (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania)
Library of Congress (Washington, District of Columbia)
AAPB ID
cpb-aacip/120-074tmqr5
Public Broadcasting Service Program NOLA
NPOF 000000
NOLA Code
NPOF
If you have more information about this item than what is given here, or if you have concerns about this record, we want to know! Contact us, indicating the AAPB ID (cpb-aacip/120-074tmqr5).
Description
Episode Description
"Ofoeti," the first television play written by poet and Bucknell University, Lewisburg, PA, professor John Wheatcroft, was one of six winners in the Alcoa - WQED TV Playwrights' Contest. The play, which had its national premiere in "NET Playhouse," is described by its author as a "modern folklore tale." Produced under the director of William Francisco, a director of the American Conservatory Theatre, with members of the American Conservatory Theatre in the cast, the play concerns a boy's search for a troll. An Edgewood (Pittsburg) Junior High School student, John O. Tragard, makes his acting debut as the youth - spellbound by imaginative myths and confused by the adult world around him. He searches for the troll - under and over bridges, over rooftops, hilltops, and highways, up the aisles of libraries and down steps and alleyways - finds the troll, and loses it again, as the play explores the boy's indecision between a make believe world and the true world. "Ofoeti" is a National Educational Television presentation, produced by WQED, Pittsburgh, under the direction of William Francisco. This aired as NET Playhouse episode 11 on December 16, 1966 and as NET Playhouse episode 36 on June 9, 1967. (Description adapted from documents in the NET Microfiche)
Broadcast Date
1967-06-09
Broadcast Date
1966-12-16
Asset type
Episode
Genres
Drama
Media type
Moving Image
Credits
Actor: Siebert, Charles
Actor: Siebert, Charles
Actor: Dysart, Richard
Actor: Dysart, Richard
Actor: Auberjonois, Rene
Actor: Auberjonois, Rene
Actor: Frazier, Harry
Actor: Frazier, Harry
Actor: Walker, Jewel
Actor: Walker, Jewel
Actor: Young, Janis
Actor: Young, Janis
Actor: Tragard, John
Actor: Tragard, John
Actor: Cauley, Harry
Actor: Cauley, Harry
Actor: Morely, Clarence
Actor: Morely, Clarence
Actor: Cianca, Viv
Actor: Cianca, Viv
Associate Producer: Silberman, Sam
Associate Producer: Silberman, Sam
Composer: Negri, Joe
Composer: Negri, Joe
Director: Silberman, Sam
Director: Francisco, William
Director: Silberman, Sam
Director: Francisco, William
Performer: Negri, Joe
Performing Group: The Silhouettes
Producer: Rayvid, Jay
Producer: Rayvid, Jay
Producing Organization: WQED (Television station : Pittsburgh, Pa.)
Producing Organization: WQED (Television station : Pittsburgh, Pa.)
Producing Organization: WQED (Television station : Pittsburgh, Pa.)
Writer: Wheatcroft, John
AAPB Contributor Holdings
WQED-TV
Identifier: 5097 (WQED)
Format: 16mm film
Duration: 00:15:00?
WQED-TV
Identifier: 10932 (WQED)
Format: 1 inch videotape
Generation: Dub
Duration: 00:30:00?
WQED-TV
Identifier: 5109 (WQED)
Format: 16mm film
Duration: 00:15:00?, 00:15:00?
WQED-TV
Identifier: 5110 (WQED)
Format: 16mm film
Duration: 00:30:00?, 00:15:00?
WQED-TV
Identifier: 5111 (WQED)
Format: 16mm film
Duration: 00:30:00?, 00:15:00?
WQED-TV
Identifier: 5112 (WQED)
Format: 16mm film
Duration: 00:30:00?, 00:30:00?
WQED-TV
Identifier: 5113 (WQED)
Format: 16mm film
Duration: 00:30:00?, 00:30:00?
WQED-TV
Identifier: 5113 (WQED)
Format: 16mm film
Duration: 00:30:00?, 00:30:00?
WQED-TV
Identifier: 5114 (WQED)
Format: 16mm film
Duration: 00:20:00?, 00:30:00?
WQED-TV
Identifier: 5115 (WQED)
Format: 16mm film
Duration: 00:10:00?, 00:20:00?
WQED-TV
Identifier: 5117 (WQED)
Format: 16mm film
Duration: 00:40:00?, 00:40:00?
WQED-TV
Identifier: 5118 (WQED)
Format: 16mm film
Duration: 00:20:00?
WQED-TV
Identifier: 5119 (WQED)
Format: 16mm film
Duration: 00:20:00?, 00:20:00?
WQED-TV
Identifier: 5120 (WQED)
Format: 16mm film
Duration: 00:20:00?, 00:30:00?
WQED-TV
Identifier: 5121 (WQED)
Format: 16mm film
Duration: 00:10:00?, 00:30:00?
WQED-TV
Identifier: NUS95504548 (Iron Mountain)
WQED-TV
Identifier: NUS95504549 (Iron Mountain)
WQED-TV
Identifier: 5102 (WQED)
Format: 16mm film
Duration: 00:50:00?, 00:40:00?
WQED-TV
Identifier: 5103 (WQED)
Format: 16mm film
Duration: 00:30:00?, 00:40:00?
WQED-TV
Identifier: 5104 (WQED)
Format: 16mm film
WQED-TV
Identifier: 5105 (WQED)
Format: 16mm film
WQED-TV
Identifier: 5106 (WQED)
Format: 16mm film
WQED-TV
Identifier: 5107 (WQED)
Format: 16mm film
Duration: 00:15:00?, 00:20:00?
WQED-TV
Identifier: 5108 (WQED)
Format: 16mm film
Duration: 00:30:00?, 00:20:00?
Library of Congress
Identifier: 2367469-1 (MAVIS Item ID)
Format: 2 inch videotape
Generation: Master
If you have a copy of this asset and would like us to add it to our catalog, please contact us.
Citations
Chicago: “NET Playhouse; Ofoeti. Part 1,” 1967-06-09, WQED, Library of Congress, American Archive of Public Broadcasting (GBH and the Library of Congress), Boston, MA and Washington, DC, accessed June 28, 2024, http://americanarchive.org/catalog/cpb-aacip-120-074tmqr5.
MLA: “NET Playhouse; Ofoeti. Part 1.” 1967-06-09. WQED, Library of Congress, American Archive of Public Broadcasting (GBH and the Library of Congress), Boston, MA and Washington, DC. Web. June 28, 2024. <http://americanarchive.org/catalog/cpb-aacip-120-074tmqr5>.
APA: NET Playhouse; Ofoeti. Part 1. Boston, MA: WQED, Library of Congress, American Archive of Public Broadcasting (GBH and the Library of Congress), Boston, MA and Washington, DC. Retrieved from http://americanarchive.org/catalog/cpb-aacip-120-074tmqr5