Creative Person; 35; The World of Harry Golden
- Series
- Creative Person
- Episode Number
- 35
- Episode
- The World of Harry Golden
- Producing Organization
- WGTV (Television station : Athens, Ga.)
- AAPB ID
- cpb-aacip/516-g15t728c2k
- NOLA Code
- CRPN
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- Description
- Episode Description
- Harry Golden, editor-publisher of the Carolina Israelite and author of For 2? Plain, Only in America, Forgotten Pioneer, Enjoy, Enjoy and a biography of Carl Sandburg, discusses his career, his literary achievements, and his philosophies on life. Cameras follow him on a nostalgic return to his boyhood home on New York Citys lower East Side where he visits his former grammar school, chats with some of the students, and pays a visit to his old apartment house on Eldridge Street. Well known for his wit and humor Mr. Golden describes his famous Golden Vertical Negro Plan which he conceived and offered to the North Carolina legislature to save them the millions of dollars they now spend on separate segregated school systems by removing the seats and having Negroes and whites stand in the same room, since the opposition came from those who did not want Negroes and whites seated together. As guest speaker before a local Carolina womens club, the politically influential Golden assesses the problem of co-existence of the races as being a public right rather than a private preference. The argument of a Negro marrying your sister, Golden maintains, does not enter the picture at all, because she could say no, cant she? Golden also praises civil rights organizations such as the NAACP for the tremendous strides they have made in improving race relations, not only for the progress made toward advancement of the goals Negroes, but also because any progress made by them also affords the poor whites and the Jews a free ride. The Creative Person: The World of Harry Golden is a 1967 presentation of National Educational Television produced by WGTV, the NET affiliate station in Athens, Georgia. (Description adapted from documents in the NET Microfiche)
- Series Description
- This series focuses on the private vision of the creative person. Each program is devoted to a 20th century artist whose special qualities of imagination, taste, originality, intelligence, craftsmanship, and individuality have marked him as a pace-setter in his field. These artists --- whose fields span the entire gamut of the art world --- include filmmaker Jean Renoir, poet John Ciardi, industrial designer Raymond Loewy, Hollywood producer-director King Vidor, noted Broadway couple Ossie Davis and Ruby Dee, artist Leonard Baskin, humorist James Thurber, satirist Robert Osborn, Indian musician Ravi Shankar, poet P. G. Wodehouse, painter Georges Braque, former ballet star Olga Spessivtzeva, Rudolf Bing, and Marni Nixon. The format for each program has been geared to the individual featured; Performance, interview, and documentary technique are employed interchangeably. The Creative Person is a 1965 production of National Educational Television. The N.E.T. producers are Jack Sameth, Jac Venza, Lane Slate, Thomas Slevin, Brice Howard, Craig Gilbert, and Jim Perrin. (Description adapted from documents in the NET Microfiche)
- Broadcast Date
- 1967-02-05
- Asset type
- Episode
- Genres
- Documentary
- Topics
- Literature
- Media type
- Moving Image
- Credits
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Camera Operator:
Smith, Bill
Director: Fisher, David
Guest: Golden, Harry
Producer: Bermont, Hill
Producer: Hale, Bill
Producing Organization: WGTV (Television station : Athens, Ga.)
Production Assistant: Hudson, Peter
Sound: Virag, Norm
- AAPB Contributor Holdings
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Indiana University Libraries Moving Image Archive
Identifier: [request film based on title] (Indiana University)
Format: 16mm film
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- Citations
- Chicago: “Creative Person; 35; The World of Harry Golden,” 1967-02-05, American Archive of Public Broadcasting (GBH and the Library of Congress), Boston, MA and Washington, DC, accessed May 8, 2026, http://americanarchive.org/catalog/cpb-aacip-516-g15t728c2k.
- MLA: “Creative Person; 35; The World of Harry Golden.” 1967-02-05. American Archive of Public Broadcasting (GBH and the Library of Congress), Boston, MA and Washington, DC. Web. May 8, 2026. <http://americanarchive.org/catalog/cpb-aacip-516-g15t728c2k>.
- APA: Creative Person; 35; The World of Harry Golden. Boston, MA: American Archive of Public Broadcasting (GBH and the Library of Congress), Boston, MA and Washington, DC. Retrieved from http://americanarchive.org/catalog/cpb-aacip-516-g15t728c2k