The Short Story; The Yellow Wallpaper

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Series
The Short Story
Episode
The Yellow Wallpaper
Producing Organization
WNVT (Television station : Annandale, Va.)
Children's Television International
Contributing Organization
The Walter J. Brown Media Archives & Peabody Awards Collection at the University of Georgia (Athens, Georgia)
AAPB ID
cpb-aacip-526-833mw29d6h
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Description
Episode Description
A man introduces the story and the historical context it was written in. The story begins with the woman talking about the house and her room. She addresses her speech to the camera. She talks about how she hates the wallpaper, going into great detail of everything she hates about it. Her husband brings her medicine and tells her to sleep. Two weeks later, she expresses her loneliness and her frustration with her nervous condition. She cannot be with her baby because it makes her nervous. Her husband refuses to change the wallpaper, and she is beginning to break down as it angers her more and more. She begins to see figures in the paper and grows paranoid. Her husband lectures her that she is the only one who can help herself, but her condition continues to worsen, and she continues to obsess over the wallpaper pattern. She sees a woman behind the pattern who creeps around the room at night, and she starts to see women creeping out the window. She begins to believe that she is the woman behind the wallpaper, and she tears the wallpaper and the room apart.
Series Description
"'The Yellow Wallpaper' is a dramatic adaptation of a short story written in the year 1893 by Charlotte Perkins Gilman. The first person narrative is delivered by the central character, a woman who is gradually going insane. She becomes obsessed by the wallpaper in the room where she is supposed to be taking a rest cure for her nerves. Daily her attention is given over to the patterns in the wallpaper until she begins to fantasize a woman behind the paper 'creeping, creeping.' Her mental deterioration becomes complete when she exchanges personalities with the imagined woman. "'The Yellow Wallpaper' is the first production in the series The Short Story designed to encourage wide leisure reading among junior and senior high school students."--1979 Peabody Awards entry form.
Broadcast Date
1979-09-01
Asset type
Episode
Media type
Moving Image
Duration
00:15:34.400
Credits
Actor: Hunter, Marvin
Actor: Bonary, Pat
Actor: Seasongood, Eda
Associate Producer: Murcha, Leandra
Director: Robbins, John
Producer: Gladfelter, Ray V.
Producer: Robbins, John
Producing Organization: WNVT (Television station : Annandale, Va.)
Producing Organization: Children's Television International
Screenwriter: Robbins, John
Writer: Gilman, Charlotte Perkins
AAPB Contributor Holdings
The Walter J. Brown Media Archives & Peabody Awards Collection at the University of Georgia
Identifier: cpb-aacip-df05684fa0c (Filename)
Format: U-matic
Duration: 0:19:43
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Citations
Chicago: “The Short Story; The Yellow Wallpaper,” 1979-09-01, The Walter J. Brown Media Archives & Peabody Awards Collection at the University of Georgia, American Archive of Public Broadcasting (GBH and the Library of Congress), Boston, MA and Washington, DC, accessed October 27, 2025, http://americanarchive.org/catalog/cpb-aacip-526-833mw29d6h.
MLA: “The Short Story; The Yellow Wallpaper.” 1979-09-01. The Walter J. Brown Media Archives & Peabody Awards Collection at the University of Georgia, American Archive of Public Broadcasting (GBH and the Library of Congress), Boston, MA and Washington, DC. Web. October 27, 2025. <http://americanarchive.org/catalog/cpb-aacip-526-833mw29d6h>.
APA: The Short Story; The Yellow Wallpaper. Boston, MA: The Walter J. Brown Media Archives & Peabody Awards Collection at the University of Georgia, American Archive of Public Broadcasting (GBH and the Library of Congress), Boston, MA and Washington, DC. Retrieved from http://americanarchive.org/catalog/cpb-aacip-526-833mw29d6h