Metropolis: Creator or Destroyer?; 5; How Things Get Done
- Episode Number
- 5
- Episode
- How Things Get Done
- Producing Organization
- National Educational Television and Radio Center
- Contributing Organization
- Library of Congress (Washington, District of Columbia)
- AAPB ID
- cpb-aacip/512-gm81j98733
- NOLA Code
- METP
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- Description
- Episode Description
- This is the story of twelve square blocks of land in the city of New York and what goes on when the area is pin-pointed for change. In completing an urban renewal plan, some will benefit, some others will get hurt. Who will decide? The film documents the pressures, finances, speculation and politics of one such plan. (Description adapted from documents in the NET Microfiche)
- Series Description
- One of the most pressing problems in America today urbanism: the character of the cities and the suburbs is explored in this series of eight half-hour episodes. It is a subject that is as alive as the nations mushrooming population, as vast as its miles of highways, as intricate as its missile centers, and yet, it is as near as the corner store. In short, it is a way of life of the majority of American people. It deals with metropolitan government, the services it provides its citizens; mans working and leisure hours. It is the planning of today and the construction of tomorrow. METROPOLIS -- Creator or Destroyer? tackles todays cities and suburban centers analyzing their usefulness, questioning how they could be made better, and studying the needs and wants of their people. The series includes a look at New York City, bridging the gamut of its tenements to its concrete canyons; it explores the plight of race relations in Philadelphia, the City of Brotherly Love. The shift to the suburbs and its ensuing problems are seen outside of Chicago. While a city rises out of the California dust, buildings are being torn down in the East to make way for slum-clearance projects each seeking a solution to urban living. The philosophies of urban renewal are seen in Washington, DC, and the neighborhood concept of living is looked at in New York City. A 1964 National Educational Television production, METROPOLIS Creator or Destroyer? was produced for NET by George C. Stoney Associates. NET was joined in the series undertaking by the University Council on Education for Public Responsibility. The 8 episodes that comprise this series were originally recorded on film. (Description adapted from documents in the NET Microfiche)
- Broadcast Date
- 1964-03-29
- Asset type
- Episode
- Rights
- Copyright National Educational Television & Radio Center March 29, 1964
- Media type
- Moving Image
- Credits
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Executive Producer: Kaufman, Paul A.
Producer: Stoney, George C.
Producing Organization: National Educational Television and Radio Center
- AAPB Contributor Holdings
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Library of Congress
Identifier: 2341862-1 (MAVIS Item ID)
Format: 16mm film
Generation: Copy: Access
Color: B&W
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Library of Congress
Identifier: 2341862-2 (MAVIS Item ID)
Format: 16mm film
Generation: Copy: Access
Color: B&W
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Indiana University Libraries Moving Image Archive
Identifier: [request film based on title] (Indiana University)
Format: 16mm film
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- Citations
- Chicago: “Metropolis: Creator or Destroyer?; 5; How Things Get Done,” 1964-03-29, Library of Congress, American Archive of Public Broadcasting (GBH and the Library of Congress), Boston, MA and Washington, DC, accessed August 3, 2025, http://americanarchive.org/catalog/cpb-aacip-512-gm81j98733.
- MLA: “Metropolis: Creator or Destroyer?; 5; How Things Get Done.” 1964-03-29. Library of Congress, American Archive of Public Broadcasting (GBH and the Library of Congress), Boston, MA and Washington, DC. Web. August 3, 2025. <http://americanarchive.org/catalog/cpb-aacip-512-gm81j98733>.
- APA: Metropolis: Creator or Destroyer?; 5; How Things Get Done. Boston, MA: 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-512-gm81j98733