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beside the point yes it is in one i noticed a manhole cover across the street from where i live and it was so attractive and so beautiful that i began to look at others and the more i worked the more i realize that the variety that was used for these covers of was just really staggering the designs were so old and so
graphic that i wanted to use that method of writing which is a method that has been used in many many different ways to record the covers that i had seen this is because it's just has been has
been the powers be it's been this bad things but i don't think that the artist has a specific role that anyone can put on the hand artists have entertained and educated criticize reflected on the society in which they have been proved that the artist is able to express something that we feel the can't articulate make things the
party has been weakened you can waste yes
bees and it's and any given day together right
it's been a while it's b thank you our five billion improving the vote to people about the war and that is to a signature fifty as the opponent it's big thanks bud
it's been nice you can do that yourself you can throw the first they don't want to call it you can run along underneath as a fall slowly put yourself as they go out the beat his lawyer says
teenagers so does it say and ran for the game was its name saenz is no it is
it was ms law uses for centuries yeah yes it is
he's been in those benefits back right maybe the great american family with her for doing that on the
big cities and small cities small town great people in small groups and altogether knows there's no longer the provisions of knowing everybody in town people yeah i don't think you have as much privacy in a small town you see it applied to the south's take five this is my neighbors and they tend to be very close you know within your own very small
and very friendly and very frank the dream machine has a piece about a small town and i didn't turn me towards thinking about small towns when people talk about them i almost always because only were better than big cities that's funny because the bureau of the census says only about seventeen percent of all americans live in towns smaller than ten thousand people what's funniest outcome of everyone like small towns better they live in big cities i suspect the answer is that small towns a better to talk about them to live in that of course of a lot of us talk about small towns because we came from one we're all looking for ways to feel superior to other people and sometimes just thinking we came from someplace better than where they came from can give us a lot of satisfaction thomas then really i
mean if someone gets his kicked out of having come from humble iowa doesn't hurt anyone he feels good about it no one else really feel bad about it because or frankly they never wanted to come from humble the first place there's no real reason for amanda feels a perrier because he was born in a small town instead of a big city of course you and i have no more control over that and whether we're born man or woman black or white america and russia but it's the pride that keeps is going so you have to be proud of where you came from and we are maybe it's all you got to go on how many people want to salute the flag and united nations anyway it seems to me though that if every wednesday the town they were born and things it be a whole lot better than they are as it is thirty six million americans move every year most of the move from a small town you a big one and when they get their eye a way they start talking about how good things used to be
back in the old small town now if president nixon was to build something for this country that's way on until he ought to declare a freeze on molding of the beds city course the kind of a phrase i'd always been in effect he'd still be living in yorba linda california instead of watching them they say shh shh shh shh mm mm mm it's been an issue that the panel is bonnie's became it's been
it's been a pleasure tom says
right now why do you most maybe there was something i don't control because i will try everything in my power to keep us to good for an interview oh well as an owl that we are going on and that went away you know and i was getting requests for half a minute if i can find you know seriously might i've written have been the thing that i had a name you know when anyone even better and banking committee man randy i wish you luck on your speech given the youthful way to say goodbye to not enough to get you to that question is no you know i remember the first
time i fell it's been great so you know you have a lizard do like i said all right just a delay and it keeps my god is on your side if you need to it was like i'm nineteen oh it
yeah yeah all right thank you ok thank
you thank you it's busy
it's both it was covered with trees particular and that is why saliva fairly had two children or sixteen or big families as they age and they help ensure that wasn't a dog eat dog called situational it was neighbors friends it doesn't take more than likely within ten fifteen twenty years we don't know exactly where years with a very short time possibly as many as twenty different corporations local non fictional in the united states
supposedly they put so much pressure to a certain time at you're so disgusting or somebody also thought i knew what was missing what corporation it ever seen massacres on what it would take to just put me and my brother the same as any other bridge and the state is doing so sanitation house recreation didn't take off so we assume always interested in there's no facilities more contamination we got more pollution we got more seconds we got more jobless people we got a mess is what we got
morrison gets incorporated areas where they take over but they're not successful with a resentment to go unnoticed or wish to leave this one in each row that one word comfort or battle counts what she's the vaccine for this very well matched with what we need today like this that's great they are huge
deal today mcconaughey action is that it says everything is labor increased taxes ministration hippies where you will look at and we go home and that there weren't things when this job and so fast i guess i can make no more than having fun and productivity on the moon is getting punished there's the sad thing is that means savior oh you raise property in order realize at a national bomb hear from our lot better get up there's no place where we have slowly of windom we have killed we have
certainly have gone all in all it's a good place to have a good healthy knick a new lab you'd like to stay with him but they're just so fresh it is sometimes get more you think also maybe you could say some people like a show we were we stayed there was a morning service that you say this is a it is many diseases the
ap very good the power is back small businessman small towns probably a satisfying
job as anyone could ask for and this happened the mine anything that in india this type of storm that there were morris polo as those meteors as well as the more open champion who's coming in to know the community to probably can get only been this town since as old as i am which is fifty seven years during some of the window or dallas tomorrow and it's more common less money to banks in the pacific daniels might take some of those colors and these tributes around this but don't forget this is our number one seller veteran or brown of a lion's club is one of the things besides being a business that makes a time like this
fun thank you it is economists blame is
it oh the pope nice
because of that neither neiman
ft drake so it's not that they look upon the cows are on our city council reached converse says she got was owned businesses well i can tell you the school system i would say three to come to turkey i would say the city council i would say are
the work of the school board i would say business is there is a few events in a new education for scholarships given up on ninety costumes give scholarships i think that there is discrimination here is no question about that we feel that we belong to the whole american society and that we want to get our share of benefits was responsibilities i think so i think the real first thing that i can remember was trying to organize the song i'm trying to be union started because more than half what i would say ninety five percent of the workers are chickens i don't like a comic as a sort of word itself has an idiot
despite all when the spanish mexican we are i walked around and then i went to the home some troops home to talk to walk in and they said yeah that sounds great great but then when the region was going to go the older people are scared and we were scared it those what they have which is nothing but that was going to lose nothing there was a life we certainly can't expect the individual you know we don't want to do anything for it people are willing to do something for
ourselves we take a look at the role of asking the whole area it comes from our heritage in the name is not to wrangle with the wrong it even sounds pretty your state of durango in durango colorado which people can go with the flowing words cannot do it with feeling i venture to say that theirs many people are angry right now to know what the meaning of the congo is it's a resting place where water can drive or five miles i would say other durango an escalade cross the river which was the name of the congress for
the soldiers and twenty seven is that died crossing the street so is well named and people say oh the uninsured and how does that sound so how much of our culture is hero it is the basis of a private appointment oil prices there's four thousand chicago's
population of twelve thousand the real basic thing that we want to know every human being about interstate was as equality we can give so much more if you have the chance they really see any connection twenty three and if they were sunni militant i would say bernie i'd say the hell with it does burn the whole downtown if we can have no part of it i don't believe this way i believe that we want to have part of time because we are a great part of the town and if you wanna make the town better this is the thing that it so i don't really see that if it gives a chance to make his town a better account of not only be
good for the mexican economy here it'd be good for the region and i feel little driving tour listen to that i will track every way possible that i can possibly sing and they'll keep working this way but if they keep closing doors open one way or the other this is what i feel the town that we do live in is a beautiful town but you cannot go on hike in poverty because it's gonna come out and what i'm afraid of that but it does come up that it's not only bad for us as to cardinal believes could be bad for durango here in this hill you know it's not that morocco we've become equal but the price medicaid was deaf
for equality but chicano people carry on their backs the sweat and tears of two hundred years that is now the southwest we carry military has been very strong for two hundred years no it was a turning point team the
pittsburgh health it's b but few months back nice
nice it's been it
has been it's been many
many as bell and that's because just a day i mean you guys became
a prime time jeff bader ginsburg is bleak i mean speaking
creek week in the past week the peace
it's gone it was worse well it's your job to love this these
this it was follow us it is maybe
someday i think it is you will die oh
man the luge he has been i'm renee montagne so it's
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Series
The Great American Dream Machine
Episode Number
21
Producing Organization
National Educational Television and Radio Center
Contributing Organization
Thirteen WNET (New York, New York)
Library of Congress (Washington, District of Columbia)
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Series Description
The Great American Dream Machine, NET's 90-minute viewing experience comprising vignettes, features, investigative reports, humor, theatrical performances and commentaries touching on life in the United States, will be televised Wednesday at 8:30 PM over PBS. The series which premieres January 6, was formerly called "Wednesday Night.""Our goals is to explore and examine the various aspects of contemporary American society through a selection of subjects, themes, personalities and approaches - techniques that inform and entertain, providing the viewer with different ways of looking at things that affect him," according to Al Perlmutter, executive producer. Each week we will deal with material that addresses itself, through a variety of approaches, to people's goals, ideas of themselves, their country, their hopes, their dreams," he says. "Accordingly we arrived at The Great American Dream Machine' as a title. That in itself will be interpreted many different ways - according to where the individual stands."The scope of the series will be diverse so as to contain features of interest to a broad spectrum of viewers. Each program's elements will flow one into the other in order to preserve its fluidity. Although the series will not have a regular host, from time to time several personalities will guide the viewer. "This concept is harder on us but we think will be better for the viewer," predicts Perlmutter. "The series will be able to move in any and all directions with no ties either to a studio or an anchorman." According to the NET producer, the segments will be short and fast paced, although "there will be no hesitation to devote extended periods of any subject that might warrant special attention. "Each program will utilize segments filmed or taped on location as well as sections which originate live from location or studio situations. Whenever possible, live inserts of timely events will be included."Programs will include commentary by American humorist SJ Perelman; special series of reports probing the plight of the American Indian; and a number of sports-oriented features, including one dealing with the career of Mohammed Ali and other stories on the upcoming Super Bowl game. Among the segments expected to be featured each Wednesday are: 1. A commentary by columnist Nicholas Von Hoffman on such subjects as how doctors' prescriptions are influenced by "sexy" advertising in medical magazines. 2. A media critique by reporter Bob Kaiser covering newspapers, magazines, television and radio. 3. Commentary by columnist Jeffrey St. John. 4. Consumer tests by actor Marshall Ephron. "The Great American Dream Machine" will also take a close look at how American men and women relate to each other and devote time to the subjects of growing old, loneliness, and the Vietnam War.Al Perlmutter and Jack Willis are the executive producers for "The Great American Dream Machine." Coordinating producers are Lou Solomon, Bob Bendick, John Fuller, Louis Ames, and Arthur Holch. Among the producers are Al Wasserman, Arthur Barron, Barbara Gordon and Fred Wardenburg. Jack Sameth is the director, and Don Sussman, the production supervisor. "The Great American Dream Machine" is produced by NET and is transmitted nationally by the Public Broadcasting Service. (Description adapted from documents in the NET Microfiche)
Description
Several segments are featured in this episode including: "Mel Torme" (performing), "Art Underfoot" (short film on artist, Arlene Coffey, and her work with manhole covers), "Frisbee" (short film about the art of the game), "Small Town" (commentary from Andy Rooney about small town life), "Durango, CO" (a film depicting the dynamics of living in Durango, a small town in Colorado and includes two "Opinion" pieces: 1) Joe Hotter, an independent rancher who discusses his views on the importance of independent farmers claiming back American farmland from big corporations and 2) David Archuleta, a Mexican-American resident of Durango who discusses the Mexican community of the town and the discrimination imposed on this community).
Broadcast Date
1971-11-10
Asset type
Episode
Media type
Moving Image
Duration
00:59:11
Credits
Executive Producer: Perlmutter, Alvin H.
Executive Producer: Willis, Jack (Film producer)
Producing Organization: National Educational Television and Radio Center
AAPB Contributor Holdings
Thirteen - New York Public Media (WNET)
Identifier: wnet_aacip_3222 (WNET Archive)
Format: U-matic
Thirteen - New York Public Media (WNET)
Identifier: wnet_aacip_14014 (WNET Archive)
Format: Betacam: SP
Generation: Master
Library of Congress
Identifier: 2079882-1 (MAVIS Item ID)
Format: 2 inch videotape: Quad
Generation: Master
Color: Color
Duration: 0:58:54
Library of Congress
Identifier: 2079882-3 (MAVIS Item ID)
Generation: Copy: Access
Color: Color
Library of Congress
Identifier: 2079882-2 (MAVIS Item ID)
Generation: Master
Color: Color
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Chicago: “The Great American Dream Machine; 21,” 1971-11-10, Thirteen WNET, Library of Congress, American Archive of Public Broadcasting (GBH and the Library of Congress), Boston, MA and Washington, DC, accessed June 24, 2025, http://americanarchive.org/catalog/cpb-aacip-75-44pk0w2s.
MLA: “The Great American Dream Machine; 21.” 1971-11-10. Thirteen WNET, Library of Congress, American Archive of Public Broadcasting (GBH and the Library of Congress), Boston, MA and Washington, DC. Web. June 24, 2025. <http://americanarchive.org/catalog/cpb-aacip-75-44pk0w2s>.
APA: The Great American Dream Machine; 21. Boston, MA: Thirteen WNET, 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-75-44pk0w2s