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like a generation of the rings tunisians only four commencement of the savings and at playhouse presentation week paul's first word has requested the pain and obeying nature's deepest mysteries man has unleashed about sources of energy and wrote what's your strength and knowledge of the risks are frightening the possibilities are the painting acting with rivers
not a man can use these emerging powers to reconcile themselves with this one the tools of technology hoping to build a better today and the right or tomorrow or you or your free book that america's greatest challenge right to america incorporated post office box to four five four grand central station in new york new york as my fellow americans fellow travelers on the yellow brick road of life you'll never have a secret ambition to have your birthday announced on television but when the great charlie got stuck dayton ohio is forty seven a happy birthday
chair disease you know an easy plea american ever return to explain it to somebody i just being an american or for example what's more american than second grade teachers remember yours i can remember my machines as tall thin she looked like she was made entirely out of a cake of work late yesterday they spot are carved up and she had this fantastic blue broker that used her hair every day she'd stand on one of us who read the raggedy and raggedy andy and now my head soul filled with stuff like a tortilla wizard revise joe dimaggio the camel with a wrinkle police will hawkins explain the woolworth misspeak but say to somebody from belgium on friday uganda wars on saturday night it's
now it's now that can be common or goes won't work the girls at america if you have the suspicion that your life is on tape and if you're the victim of some really lousy editor is cut out all the great stuff look you're not built all the dojo like waiting in line at the cleaners stuff like that you're like just goes on and on and on that paper she keeps running and you keep running fb ad difference being an american you're welcome
to in reverse very very very interesting if you became president i take it you would use a synthesizing person going into a lot of the first thing you'd think the white house black well first thing i'll do is make the white house money
money and back in that kind of panicked killed kennedy imposed to block for me its head we use guns that yet if he'd gotten in a certain place and carry that we don't shoot them to kill we shoot them and won't bring back and heal that was dr of the game which is different only in so far these is a is one of the g eight years ago sometimes
you know you have to find them the stool working with history said it still kind of minorities and not a lot of the united states got his aids activists are staging many weekends of the time this serves as news service no so this was in the nineteen twenties counterintelligence the intention is
sometimes there's a shadowy creature it's because it seems otherworldly yet so how have afghans i mean really national educational television probably awards to mr david silver or outstanding individual contributions of excellence in television programming or his thirteen part tv series entitled what's happening mr silver if bout
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your program it uses those as the movie you've been preserved me comin in new game and i hate it they've been in america for three years and three months four thousand waking hours move on
sunday fifty two thousand of them say five hundred the press mitt romney's two thousand us involvement in syria's pro american rescue so so i don't want to go to whatever is
in in june when they can go whoa whoa
whoa whoa he's been my fear is all the big gaping and after the line though this violent yes it is though that analysts say and write a play yeah i think they all the rage for the camera and point out of writing this way across the front i wonder it's very unlikely that we had one girl at a time one go up this where one office where one or this one or that one line here eu average household in america watches over two thousand hours of television per year this has approximately six hours a day i love
lucy the honeymooners and superman facebook of them sort you know in that and i wasn't going to do the laundry i'll be writing do you
know where that line is ok people in the uk we were there you know there was a lot about this proposal honestly one that i listened to snow and the longer you do it i mean was it some place i can reach you in cash like you were you know still life so what the polls are opposing we have reached him at every q oh yes it is cool singing
you stay you we'll talk about the gay children were all set to go news is just about really began on a smile and we want it as ok you really feel inadequate thank you look at what went dark black friday and when they wrote a plan dame name any name
oh name many cry cry right now any update
the head oh yeah any name at get more out of life
and you know i wonder how much this world of the drive it is going to affect genuinely affects our national life like for example there's a guy sitting in his car or charlie's at this girl mabel is the next one up on the screen is charlton heston and he's wearing this bare skin wrote his skin has painted orange and it's on a screen that stretches for maybe a hundred yards across the horizon and it's a slightly better attitude were sitting there watching these biblical epic which is really the meat forever the drive in world and the voice of god comes out a little and i speak a little tiny tin speaker you know i think that one of the reasons why god is dead in america is because most people here his voice coming out of a tin three inch japanese speaker can imagine hearing the commandment you go mama keeps dating hockey respected brand like this
but then charlie looks up their bases one commandment of those big plastic tablets the charlton heston as kerry say in his arm starts to sneak over the back and see if you're trying to love thy neighbor and mabel sees that he's about to make his move and she says carries over and slams up against the side of the door and looks out at a reworking of plays charlie struck out again sits and waits and in that moment you know when the love music comes in at a moment when cary grant looks deep into denver karzai's and somewhere far off in the distance you can work good thing for him a shark
millions of movie fans all over the world know that this is what music does is an ag banking is this is the real thing cary grant is truly in love with every car they've gotten that music how the questioners i wonder how many people feel that they have never fall in love today because whenever they kissed their groom know love music that not with silence and all they know has their nose sweat or you've got a black kid so eventually no wonder we all go to the movies to see real love music and beauty and truth of volunteer i see the day by the year two thousand when there will be a plaque on a driving maybe it'll be nearly box office you know your first time in your lights are looking for a place to park near be a plaque and it will say this is the route three drive a historic drive it was in this
drive in in the fall of the year two thousand and three the president charles w schmidt plant was conceived i looked at that the drive in is going to be a log cabin of the future it's better to pay the pain
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as you just heard and when it happened you never understand why and she's very well how it's you possibly not love their noses it's a bit more than the federal reserve
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do you have something wrong with you or not it had a little it had been a writer and i don't think i'm an ability or turn on your life is going to turn sets did you actually have an economic downturn with is nothing more american than a trillion we're really just beautiful the great rivers and by stretching out
over three thousand and the smiles past the country you know the turnpike getting sold so much of their unit so that you can now buy a turnpike so many like you get a year jersey turnpike be no kisses i've been on the jersey turnpike and it's gonna go power pop or you can get a guest lecture theatres of pennsylvania turnpike at age twenty five in there i mean the pope i'm from here
these are the challenges of the seventies the kind of challenges that test our intelligence stamina and imagination the kind of challenges that keep america growing this great rich restless country can offer opportunity and education and while and why thank you
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and you step on the gas pursuing or so and bryan and you can feel the welling up within sight here because bread five million dollars worth of accessories workers were shot out of the car and you see a gridlock in the morning in that dark stage and playing but mid america of the orange glow coming up on our lives closer and closer the deep inside you feel this this religious war and it's just nothing more american how could you explain this to nazi come
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Series
NET Playhouse
Episode Number
177
Episode
America Incorporated
Producing Organization
Thirteen WNET
Contributing Organization
Thirteen WNET (New York, New York)
Library of Congress (Washington, District of Columbia)
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Description
Episode Description
This first program in an international series of dramas reflecting the gap between generations stars British actor David Silver and popular radio personality Jean Shepherd in an unconventional drama about a young man who sets out on an odyssey to discover what America is like beneath the facades.
Episode Description
The play is comprised of three elements woven together, each element offering a different outlook on American society. David Silver plays himself - a young family man (26 years old) who temporarily leaves home in what he calls a "search for feeling" about America. His aim is to get underneath the images and facades and experience what America is truly like. Together with friend Ed Beardsley, he sets out on an odyssey that exposes them to variety of situations in today's subculture. For example: in Boston they attend a Hare Krishna "love feast;" in New York they go to the Bowery area and establish acquaintanceships with derelicts who live there, and on Ellis island they visit the place where countless thousands of immigrants entered America in the early 1900s. After Beardsley returns home to Boston, Silver goes on to Washington, D.C., for the November moratorium, gets involved in the march and meets Yippie (Youth International Party) leader Abbie Hoffmann. Then he himself returns to Boston and reflects upon his experiences. Most of the events described above were neither scripted nor staged. All were filmed cinema verite on location. Interwoven with the presentation of Silver's odyssey is the commentary of Jean Shepherd, the veteran late-night personality. Shepherd, in his 40s, provides his own ironic and personal vision of America and the result is a very different view of the events portrayed on film. Shepherd has won four of the last five Playboy awards for best American humorist. Finally, there is the third element in this program - the "sponsor's" commercials. The "sponsor" of the play is a mythical non-profit corporation, "America, Inc." and its commercials are seen periodically throughout this production. America, Inc. is something in the nature of a large private philanthropic organization seeking to promote peace, love, and help for the needy. Its commercials are public service spots (parodies of the real thing) about brotherhood, urban blight, and freedom of expression, etc., and they always project a positive view. At first these commercials seem to relate to Silver's experiences, but as the program develops the relationship grows more and more distant, demonstrating the clash between the ,Aeocorporate" and the "personal" outlooks, however benevolent both may be. This split reaches its climax in the Washington moratorium segment. There is no cast as such for this production. Silver is an actor-producer and a member of the WGBH (Boston) Rockefeller Artists in Television (a group co-sponsored by the Rockefeller Foundation and WGBH). At the Boston station he was co-producer of the experimental series "What's happening Mr. Silver," which won a 1969 NET affiliates award in the field of cultural affairs. Silver's friend, Beardsley, plays himself, as does Shepherd. "America, Inc." is an NET production, produced through the facilities of WGBH, Boston, in cooperation with the WGBH Rockefeller Artists in Television. This aired as NET Playhouse episode 177 as part 1 of the A Generation of Leaves sub-series on February 19, 1970 and as NET Playhouse episode 192 on June 18, 1970. (Description adapted from documents in the NET Microfiche)
Series Description
This is an eight-part sub-series of plays titled A Generation of Leaves. It was announced by Jac Vanza, executive producer of NET Playhouse. The weekly series includes original commissions, presentations by such distinguished American authors as Marya Mannes and Thornton Wilder, productions from NET affiliate stations, and the pick of foreign television programs focusing on this theme. "There is a consistency of theme in these dramas from a wide variety of sources," says Venza. "The younger generation questions its inheritance, the older generation questions the values of the younger generation and herein lies the communications gap. Which is, by the way, nothing new." Its central theme is the seemingly world-wide breach between youth and elders. The title is derived from Homers Iliad, Book VI: "A generation of men is like a generation of leaves: the wind scatters some leaves upon the ground, while others the burgeoning wood brings forth and the season of spring comes on. So of men one generation ceases and another springs forth." A Generation of Leaves opens February 19th with America, Inc., an NET-commissioned work produced at WGBH-TV, Boston, with a highly experimental format; includes two one-act plays by Thornton Wilder, dramas from the Canadian Broadcasting corporation, the British Broadcasting Corporation, north German Television and WQED, Pittsburgh; and concludes in April with NETs production of They, a TV adaptation by Marya Mannes of her novel dramatizing a near future ruled by the young. Some of the plays in this series can be described as off-beat or experimental while other are conventional dramas. The sub-series aired under the NET Playhouse series as episode numbers 177-184. (Description adapted from documents in the NET Microfiche)
Broadcast Date
1970-02-19
Asset type
Program
Genres
Drama
Topics
Theater
Media type
Moving Image
Duration
01:01:23
Credits
Producing Organization: Thirteen WNET
AAPB Contributor Holdings
Thirteen - New York Public Media (WNET)
Identifier: wnet_aacip_6414 (WNET Archive)
Format: U-matic
Generation: Master
Library of Congress
Identifier: 2325111-1 (MAVIS Item ID)
Format: 2 inch videotape
Generation: Master
Color: Color
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Chicago: “NET Playhouse; 177; America Incorporated,” 1970-02-19, Thirteen WNET, Library of Congress, 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-75-76rxwp8k.
MLA: “NET Playhouse; 177; America Incorporated.” 1970-02-19. Thirteen WNET, Library of Congress, 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-75-76rxwp8k>.
APA: NET Playhouse; 177; America Incorporated. 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-75-76rxwp8k