Series
The Metric System
Episode Number
No. 2; No. 8; No. 13
Episode
What is the Metric System?; It's All Based on the Meter; Comparing Units of Volume
Producing Organization
Mississippi Educational Television
Contributing Organization
The Walter J. Brown Media Archives & Peabody Awards Collection at the University of Georgia (Athens, Georgia)
AAPB ID
cpb-aacip-526-gt5fb4xq93
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Description
Series Description
This series has two specific general objectives: to motivate viewers to become interested in and to want to know more about the metric system of measurement; to teach the viewers metric terms and metric units and to relate in a common-use way the more familiar metric units of measurement. "The United States is steadily becoming more and more aware of the fact that it should change, for several good reasons, to the metric system. This series was produced with the hope of making the transition from the customary to the metric system as 'painless' as possible."--1974 Peabody Awards entry form.
Broadcast Date
1974
Asset type
Episode
Media type
Moving Image
Duration
01:02:23.422
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Credits
Producing Organization: Mississippi Educational Television
AAPB Contributor Holdings
The Walter J. Brown Media Archives & Peabody Awards Collection at the University of Georgia
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Citations
Chicago: “The Metric System; No. 2; No. 8; No. 13; What is the Metric System?; It's All Based on the Meter; Comparing Units of Volume ,” 1974, 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 April 26, 2024, http://americanarchive.org/catalog/cpb-aacip-526-gt5fb4xq93.
MLA: “The Metric System; No. 2; No. 8; No. 13; What is the Metric System?; It's All Based on the Meter; Comparing Units of Volume .” 1974. 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. April 26, 2024. <http://americanarchive.org/catalog/cpb-aacip-526-gt5fb4xq93>.
APA: The Metric System; No. 2; No. 8; No. 13; What is the Metric System?; It's All Based on the Meter; Comparing Units of Volume . 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-gt5fb4xq93