Basic Issues of Man; 8; Pegasus Without Wings
- Series
- Basic Issues of Man
- Episode Number
- 8
- Episode
- Pegasus Without Wings
- Producing Organization
- WGTV (Television station : Athens, Ga.)
- AAPB ID
- cpb-aacip/516-rv0cv4cw74
- NOLA Code
- BIMN
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- Description
- Episode Description
- Is the artist free to express himself regardless of public understanding, public acceptance, or public rejection? To illustrate the problem, a vignette dramatizes the incidents surrounding a citizens donation of a statue or a town square. The artist commissioned to do work has fashioned a piece of iron sculpture which depicts what he feels is the horses spirit instead of its outward form. At the dedication of the statue in the town square, the crowd voices mixed reactions to the sculpture. More and stronger objections climax in an attempt to destroy the iron horse. The donor finally removes the iron horse to his own estate where, on top of a rise, it dominates the landscape in splendid exile in the last scene, the donor, who has begun to realize the beauty in this work of art comes to visit his horse. There he finds a boy who has also realized the works beauty. (Description adapted from documents in the NET Microfiche)
- Series Description
- The series introduces the basic liberal arts studies and the basic issues with which they deal. The basic issues with which man deals are real, and the humanistic studies impinge on modern mans own actions and attitudes. Each film points out the historical humanistic literature which deals with the modern problem. This series identifies and illuminates certain basic issues which face all men persistent problems which each man in every age must try to solve. Each episode first poses a basic question and then presents some of the enduring ideas on that question. Although the series draws no conclusions, the episodes deal with each of the following six areas: the nature of man, man and society, the political life of man, creativity and the arts, the scientific life of man, and the philosophical life of man. Several of the episodes make extensive use of very imaginative and symbolic settings; several are half-hour plays. Basic Issues of Man is a 1962 production of WGTV, Athens, Georgia. The 12 half-hour episodes that comprise this series were originally recorded on film. (Description adapted from documents in the NET Microfiche)
- Broadcast Date
- 1963-00-00
- Asset type
- Episode
- Genres
- Drama
- Topics
- Fine Arts
- Philosophy
- Media type
- Moving Image
- Credits
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Actor: Charles, Preston
Actor: Biggers, Dan
Actor: Loring, James
Actor: Fear, Art
Actor: Kean, Jerry
Actor: Macdonald, Joe
Camera Operator: Sorrow, T. K.
Director: Josey, Charles
Editor: Bravo, Edward
Editor: Cummings, Bradley
Producing Organization: WGTV (Television station : Athens, Ga.)
Sound: Bravo, Edward
Writer: Josey, Charles
- AAPB Contributor Holdings
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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: “Basic Issues of Man; 8; Pegasus Without Wings,” 1963-00-00, American Archive of Public Broadcasting (GBH and the Library of Congress), Boston, MA and Washington, DC, accessed August 2, 2025, http://americanarchive.org/catalog/cpb-aacip-516-rv0cv4cw74.
- MLA: “Basic Issues of Man; 8; Pegasus Without Wings.” 1963-00-00. American Archive of Public Broadcasting (GBH and the Library of Congress), Boston, MA and Washington, DC. Web. August 2, 2025. <http://americanarchive.org/catalog/cpb-aacip-516-rv0cv4cw74>.
- APA: Basic Issues of Man; 8; Pegasus Without Wings. Boston, MA: American Archive of Public Broadcasting (GBH and the Library of Congress), Boston, MA and Washington, DC. Retrieved from http://americanarchive.org/catalog/cpb-aacip-516-rv0cv4cw74