KCTS 1981: Station Sampler

is public television for the Pacific Northwest. This station is a truly international company serving 3 ,500 ,000 viewers in the Northwest United States and far Western Canada. KCTS -9 produces and distributes many internationally released television documentaries and has recently originated a number of widely distributed performance programs. Here are a few examples of our productions. KCTS -9 is known throughout the nation for revealing and insightful documentaries about social issues. Here are brief excerpts from seven programs. Hard Choices is a six -part series on the ethics of medical practice and research. You will see selections from programs on behavior control and the fair distribution of health care. 1974, the SLA and Patty Hearst filled a headline. Patty Hearst is believed by many to have been a victim of the behavior control. She has lost her autonomy. Through nefarious means her capacity for self -determination has been taken from her. She is no longer her

own person. Patty Hearst confirms our worst nightmares about the evils of behavior control. When we are no longer autonomous, we are no longer responsible. No one would question the attention given this patient.

I don't know. Joe, could you lift up the stretch of your stomach? I wouldn't lift up the wood once, so we can get the metal out. The total deployment of resources to save a life is what we've come to expect of medicine. But what will we do when there aren't enough resources to go around, or when people can't afford them? Questions like these are being asked, and they have to do with how medical care gets distributed in this society, and how well that distribution measures up to our ideal of justice. When you have the stroke after 30 years of eating too much, or you have the heart attack, or you get the cancer, because of your personal misbehavior, don't feel bad about it, folks. It's going to cost a hell of a lot after the fact to do that. Now, if you want to keep doing that, don't worry about the cost. They'll keep going up, and pretty soon we'll come to a finite limit to our resources, where you and I may or may not be able to get in the hospital next week, even though we need it right then. I

went to the hospital to visit a friend who had swallowed a fishbone. A nurse stopped me and demanded $30 visitors a mission before she'd let me in. The elevator ride cost $10, the stairs only five, so I decided to walk. The charge to find my friend's room was $130, being broke I paid my check. Two guards restrained me while the nurse called the bank to make sure I wasn't a bad check artist. I was charged $40 for the guards, 25 for the use of the corridor, and $50 for a clean bill of financial health. When I finally found my friend, he told me a horrible tale. The fishbone had told more elusive than the doctors thought. They had to go into the esophagus and then into the stomach before it could be removed. By that time, his insurance and bank accounts had been exhausted. His airplane, yacht, and cars sold at auction, and his estate's in Maine Delaware and Venezuela all cashed in. When he broke down, cried in the cashier's office, he was charged $100 for the office,

and $150 for weeping. The $300 of breaking down was waived, but the rest of the bill was sent to a collection agency. Images of Indians, recently broadcast nationally on PBS, shows how Hollywood created the world image of the Native American. Hello, my name is Will Samson. Movies have consistently portrayed the Indian as savage, a renegade, a killer of innocent pioneer women and children, and merciless Kalper, who use the most cruel means of torture in his vicious attacks against white men. This series of programs intends to give a look as to how and why it happened, and the effect, the fact that these Hollywood images are seen nightly on television screens all over the world, is having on our people, especially our young people. You know, for most people, the Native American is invisible unless he looks like the Hollywood Indian. You know, for years, you too

say that you were wrong to have pictured us this way, but it's too late, the time has come for all false images to come undone. In the movies, the dominant image is the warrior, the enemy menacing, cunning, sneaky and barbarous. The Indian wars are long over, but not the war of the Indian self -image, which began with the early image makers, the painters, the novelists, and Wild West shows. The Western Dime novel appeared in 1860, and its impact was enormous. So great that 50 years later, these novels provided the first Western movie scripts.

400 ,000 copies of Seth Jones were sold in 1860. The story dealt with a white family taken captive by cruel Indians. The success of the Dime novel continued into the 1930s when they were selling at the rate of 10 million a month. The Dime novels were also the basis for the Wild West shows. From 1870 to 1900, there were 150 Wild West shows touring the world. The most famous belong to William F. Cody, Buffalo Bill. Once an Indian scout for the Army, he later earned his nickname slaughtering Buffalo for their heights. Buffalo Bill is a very important figure for the Indians. He symbolizes the destruction of their food supply, the Buffalo. And perhaps even more importantly, he symbolizes the creation of a false Indian image. For to make Buffalo Bill a hero, the Indian had to play the loser. Ritual is a program from a series on Japan and its social

structure. The Dime novel is a series on Japan and its social structure. The Dime novel is a series on Japan and its social structure. The Dime novel is a series on Japan and its social structure. Ritual world.

The major difference of mentally and child reading in Japan compared to the ancient times. West is that in the West we try to make the child independent, to make him somehow the master of his own destiny. Well, that is not the case in Japan. The child will be here to be a member of a human group. Now we would say well then what about individualism? Individualism has never bothered the Japanese, the way it bothers Westerners. Of course in Japan we have individuals also but they are not individualistic. Seasons of the Basque show the ancient way of life transplanted to the mountains of the American West. I came to Nevada from the Basque country in 1961. Many

of my friends they come over before me. They write me you want to come to America to worship herder? You make lots of money. In Spain we was eight brothers and sisters. There wasn't enough for everybody. So I came here. For nearly a century Basques have been coming to the American West to herd sheep on the open range. They came because they were poor. Most intended to save their money and go back home. To the seven Basque provinces extending across the international border into Spain and France. Although the origins of the Basque people and their language remain a mystery, evidence suggests that Basques may be Europe's oldest ethnic group dating back to the Stone Age. The fast life reveals the nature

and extent of child prostitution in Seattle. I'm Mike Kirk. During the next 30 minutes we're going to show you another side of life. It won't be pleasant but if you have children you better pay attention. We call this program the fast life because that's what people own these streets call life here. It's a miracle round of sex and violence. That's not surprising. Every city in America has an area like this a combat zone where so -called victimless crimes of pornography and prostitution flourish. What is surprising are the numbers of young people down here. Teenagers who have run away or been thrown out of their homes and left to survive on the streets. The lives many of these children lead gives new meaning to the idea that prostitution is a victimless crime. I thought it was neat you know just go out. More two hours and it was quick and easy.

Emotional rescue takes us inside of those peculiarly American organizations that offer to transform the personalities and life outlooks of insecure people. These people have just completed an intensive five day 50 hour human potential training courts. They paid $350 to life spring the second largest group training corporation in America hundreds of thousands have taken trainings like this nationwide and a staggering array of these group trainings are available groups with names like Omega the role the confidence game cornucopia and asked the method is fairly similar for several hundred dollars people spend several days together with a leader who tries to teach them to think positively they take those trainings in mountain retreats hotel ballrooms and places like this this is the Seattle area headquarters the life spring there are seven other centers like this in major cities throughout the country. Hi how you doing welcome to life spring. It seems to me 350 people in a room at three hundred fifty dollars the crack

is generating an awful lot of money for for one trainer. Well you must really understand the point that life spring is a business into making money for one thing and in the in the process of being a business do we offer something valuable for what we charge how do we decide if what life spring is selling is valuable they're certainly filling a need whether it's an entertaining adult game for the board or a place for human contact for the lonely or a new kind of therapy in helping with the stresses of life these groups have been called the social invention of the 20th century and in the end what will certainly intrigue social historians long after the trainings are gone is what they have to say about American society when basic emotional needs are being met in some way by a well -orchestrated slickly packaged profit -making company that sells happiness through self fulfillment. KCTS 9 continues to document the diverse culture of Western North

America. Ravati is an intimate look at the folk ways and attitudes of Croatians who immigrated to the Western United States from coastal fishing villages of Yugoslavia. There's still derogatory remarks I hear these damn Croatians they're so pushy these damn Croatians they just really don't know their place there's some feelings that still persist the Croatian Republic is today part of Yugoslavia but we have been able to practice our folk ways here in this small community of Anna Cordes my mother my father and

my two sisters and I arrived here seeking political refuge after the fury of the Second World War we came to Anna Cordes because my grandmother had come here in 1938 the real West takes us to Sunvali Idaho to meet Clint Eastwood John Ford King Vador and many other great masters of the Western film in a true Western they didn't do too much of the stuff that they do in the Hollywood version which is tied down kind of guns and they used steel reinforced holsters and so forth so the gun will fly out very fast you know those they just put it in a holster that came up over a belt may and they are also just stick the gun in the belt

much like this and they probably didn't draw very fast at all they probably drew very slow when the other guy wasn't looking it took very careful in how I'm having three artists of the northwest tell the stories of painter Guy Anderson sculptor George Sutokawa and Paul Theodore retki I like the dark rich earth colors like the strange off greens and funny red browns and and I like that whole earth color school and I think this has a lot to do with being close to nature this summy ink on rice paper seemed to be the the most wonderful medium the ink itself is very fluid and the only other element to modulate the tone value is water so again we have this water which is a essential element in our

northwest scene writing for me is not an easy thing to do I always always terrified sort of of the feeling that well is this the last time KCTS 9 gathered the men who have served as press secretaries to American presidents reporters Seymour Hirsch and Liz Trata try to find out why presidential press secretaries don't always tell the truth now watch moderator Ellie Abel speak his mind to Lyndon Johnson's press secretary George Reedy about Reedy's announcement of the Tonkin Gulf incident I'd like to say something I haven't said much this evening you have not explained ever in these discussions about acting on fragmentary information why it is always necessary to come down with maximum force in that moment and what might be lost by waiting until one knew what was actually happening perhaps it might save 12 hours and 50 live it seems to me that I as one

citizen have been troubled by this trigger happy notion of successive presidents that you've got to act the day before yesterday otherwise you're a coward and America goes down the drain our recent program do I look like I want to die pits nuclear power critic Ralph Nader against nuclear proponent Ralph lap the question is nuclear power production a practical proposition in the long term the people of this community work in the nuclear power industry they're angry at critics of nuclear power tonight they'll get a chance to do something about it because this man Ralph Nader who was called nuclear power the angel of death is coming to their town nuclear energy is unacceptably unsafe I mean by that that it has only one bite of the apple is the only form of energy in our country today which if it has one major catastrophe with a breach of containment and a release of radioactive materials over hundreds of square miles that'll be the end politically

of nuclear power even pro nuclear advocates such as Dr. Alvin Weinberg and Senator John Pastore have conceded this to be the case and I think after three mile on we'll see we we have seen that the public while it can grudgingly tolerate accidents in other forms of energy will not tolerate the uninhabitability of a major area where millions of people have lived Dr. Lamwell since mr. Nader puts his fingers squarely on one basic issue although he had a few others he tossed in he puts it basically on the issue that we could not endure another a major nuclear disaster that we might have threats of sabotage earthquakes other things tell me what happened at three mile island in my opinion what happened there and I think this will be borne out by careful analysis was worse than the accident scenarios conducted by Professor Rasmussen for a meltdown what more could you have done at that control panel then was done a

saboteur might have helped the people on that stage tonight and in that audience advocated extreme positions they can paint a terrifying view of America with it without nuclear power and America that is either poisoned with deadly radiation or an America that is energy star for where we all sacrifice our comfortable lifestyles KCTS 9 produced a drama by black American playwright a key Lorenz seller George is the story of a black family who becomes ensnared in the radical politics of a Chicago factory it is also a tale of murder revenge and redemption here the family gathers to mourn the death of patriarch Big George but you see my dear I ain't your Mrs. Jenkins you're not but well who are you Louise do pray Liz is taking an app right now my dear so you see I told you you didn't hardly want me

oh my goodness welcome home oh you too sweetie who these white people in my house that might be better would you help me oh my this is you I bet you miss the court read the most and Lord who is it is there come on over here give your grandma some love goodness gracious I won't grow up all praises do the gracious Lord mama but anybody bother to answer my question now who are these white people in my house to tell you the true son I don't write you don't either recently KCTS 9 produced a concert with the young cello virtuoso yo yo ma he plays the shuman concerto for cello and orchestra the conductor is Rhine or my down

so you want to be a star is a musical documentary about the trials

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will get on av 은 they think is fantastic so I at going for but only in a l re too certain of us as we think it will then I'm sure there will be s some little labels bidding for it and then it will go national so that's one way ago and that's the way we do it this time The Pacific Northwest Ballet Company recently taped a nationally released program in the studios of KCTS -9. Four contemporary Ballets are presented. Concerto Grosso by Netherlands Dance Theatre Director Charles Zerny, a witty look at the Olympic Games. Madre Gillesco by Benjamin Harcarvey, inspired by manners of the Italian 14th century. Loan Poems by Lois Holm, related to poems of Sylvia Plath, and over the waves by Pacific Northwest Ballet Director Kent Stowell, a frolic some American Ballets set to old fiddle tunes. Here is the finale of this Barnyard Spectacular. This is the first time I've ever played a violin. This is the first time I've ever played a violin.

This is the first time I've ever played a violin. This is the first time I've ever played a violin. You have just seen a few examples of documentary, music, drama, and dance programs produced by KCTS -9. America's most international public television station. The shows

are made in both the United States and Canada. Information on availability of KCTS -9 programs for your market is available from KCTS -4045 Brooklyn Avenue, Northeast, Seattle, Washington, 98105, USA. You