People are Taught to be Different; 3; Group Ways of Channelizing Aggression
- Episode Number
- 3
- Producing Organization
- KUHT-TV (Television station : Houston, Tex.)
- KUHT-TV (Television station : Houston, Tex.)
- Contributing Organization
- Thirteen WNET (New York, New York)
- Library of Congress (Washington, District of Columbia)
- University of Houston (Houston, Texas)
- AAPB ID
- cpb-aacip/75-38jdfrdk
- NOLA Code
- PEAT
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- Description
- Episode Description
- This video includes episode 3 (Group Ways of Channelizing Agression) and episode 9 (Impact of Personalities). In the third episode they explore the methods of directing and using aggression in children are demonstrated in studies of the Americans of the continental United States, the Kwoma of New Guinea, and the Alorese of the Dutch East Indies. We move from the creation of frustration in children through the expression of aggressive responses to the various ways the aggressive responses are directed and utilized. Dr. Bullock?s narration is closely linked to dance action and original musical effects. The types of stimuli that frustrate children are explained. As each example is followed to its logical end of aggressive behavior, one can understand the hit-and-run tactics of the Kwoma, the competitive spirit of the American, and the inferior and helpless feeling of the Alorese. The battle scenes presented at the end of the Kwoma and Alorese groups throw our concept of war into a new mental perspective. In the ninth episode they explore how human personality is formed and how the finished person seeks to develop institutions in the image of his own personality are demonstrated through narration, modern dance interpretations, and original musical accompaniment. The personality types demonstrated are the authoritarian, cooperative, and dwarfed ego varieties. The groups from which the illustrations are drawn are the American, Alorese, and Hopi societies. How an authoritarian personality, controlling American school children in a class room, can perpetuate its type is very clearly shown. This character, Mr. Author, looms as a threat to free democratic institutions. Pagla, of the Alorese, and Noquima, of the Hopi, are presented as contrasting types. The spiritual values of the Hopi come into visual form through dance interpretations of their views of nature and the supernatural. (Description adapted from documents in the NET Microfiche)
- Series Description
- People are Taught to be Different is a series of films representing a new departure in educational telecasting. From anthropology, social psychology and sociology, it draws case materials that dramatically portray the different ways children are brought up and personality is shaped throughout the world. Against a stylized background of primitive village and modern American life, folkways of childbirth, child-rearing, puberty rituals, courtship behavior, marriage rituals, institutional development, religion, medicine and death rituals are interpreted through the medium of modern dance. The sets, dances and music, create specifically to complement the explanations of the various groups and topics, combine to give, the viewer a you are there perspective. The material is presented by Dr. Henry Allen Bullock, professor of sociology and Chairman of the Graduate Research at Texas Southern University. He explains how and why human beings are made into different kinds of persons in different parts of the world. The 12 episodes that comprise this series each run about 30 minutes. (Description adapted from documents in the NET Microfiche)
- Broadcast Date
- 1958-00-00
- Asset type
- Episode
- Topics
- Performing Arts
- Social Issues
- Dance
- Rights
- Published Work: This work was offered for sale and/or rent in 1960.
- Media type
- Moving Image
- Credits
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Host: Bullock, Henry Allen
Producing Organization: KUHT-TV (Television station : Houston, Tex.)
Producing Organization: KUHT-TV (Television station : Houston, Tex.)
- AAPB Contributor Holdings
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Thirteen - New York Public Media (WNET)
Identifier: wnet_aacip_134 (WNET Archive)
Format: Betacam: SP
Generation: Master
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Library of Congress
Identifier: 2323498-1 (MAVIS Item ID)
Format: 16mm film
Generation: Copy: Access
Color: B&W
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Library of Congress
Identifier: 2323544-1 (MAVIS Item ID)
Format: 16mm film
Generation: Copy: Access
Color: B&W
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University of Houston
Identifier: ID 1997-006, AV Shelving (University of Houston)
Format: 16mm film
Duration: 0:29:10
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- Citations
- Chicago: “People are Taught to be Different; 3; Group Ways of Channelizing Aggression,” 1958-00-00, Thirteen WNET, Library of Congress, University of Houston, American Archive of Public Broadcasting (GBH and the Library of Congress), Boston, MA and Washington, DC, accessed June 23, 2025, http://americanarchive.org/catalog/cpb-aacip-75-38jdfrdk.
- MLA: “People are Taught to be Different; 3; Group Ways of Channelizing Aggression.” 1958-00-00. Thirteen WNET, Library of Congress, University of Houston, American Archive of Public Broadcasting (GBH and the Library of Congress), Boston, MA and Washington, DC. Web. June 23, 2025. <http://americanarchive.org/catalog/cpb-aacip-75-38jdfrdk>.
- APA: People are Taught to be Different; 3; Group Ways of Channelizing Aggression. Boston, MA: Thirteen WNET, Library of Congress, University of Houston, American Archive of Public Broadcasting (GBH and the Library of Congress), Boston, MA and Washington, DC. Retrieved from http://americanarchive.org/catalog/cpb-aacip-75-38jdfrdk