Guide to the United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Office of Educational Television Records

Descriptive Summary

Title

United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Office of Educational Television Records

Inclusive Dates

1952-1965

Call Number

RG 79

Creator(s)

United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Office of Educational Television.

Quantity

5.00 cubic feet

Restrictions on Access

Open for research. Medical, educational, and psychological records of living people are closed.

Repository

Presbyterian Historical Society, 425 Lombard Street, Philadelphia, PA 19147-1516 USA

Biographical Note / Administrative History

Administrative History

Recognizing the fact that television had become an effective new medium for ministry, the Board of Christian Education created an Office of Educational Television as part of its general reorganization in 1960. Educational Television was placed under the newly expanded General Division of Field Services. The Rev. Ralph Mould, a member of the National Council of Church's Broadcasting and Film Commission, served as secretary from 1960-63. The office worked with the Board of National Missions' Division of Radio and Television to study the impact of television on contemporary society and to utilize television resources in the congregation for creative educational purposes.

Collection Overview

Record Group 79 consists of correspondence, minutes and reports from three different agencies: the National Council of Church's Broadcasting and Film Commission, the General Council's Division of Radio and Television, and the Board of Christian Education's Office of Educational Television. The files appear to be those of the secretary of the Office of Educational Television, Ralph Mould. Mould's membership in the Broadcasting and Film Commission accounts for the large bulk of those records.

Related Material

Administrative Information

Processing Information

The bulk of Record Group 79 dates from the Board's 1960 reorganization until 1965, although there are a few older items.
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Record Group 79 contains two tapes which have been separately catalogued. They contained plays for the General Assembly: Puppet Play I, Jonah, and Puppet Play II, You Have No Idea.

Record Group 79 contains a record "What Sound Can Add to a Filmstrip" which has also been separately catalogued.

Catalog Headings

The following headings have been used to index the description of this collection in the society’s electronic catalog.

Personal Name Subject

Mould, Ralph Norman, 1908-

Corporate Subject

Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Board of Christian Education. Office of Educational Television.

Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Board of National Missions. Division of Radio and Television.

National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United states of America. Broadcasting and Film Commission.

Genre-form

Correspondence

Minutes

Reports

Papers

Corporate Added Name

Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Board of Christian Education.

Collection Inventory

Box	Folder	Description

1	1	Finding Aid to Record Group 79
	2	World Council of Christian Education and Sunday School Association Reports, 1952-59 (incomplete)
	3	23rd Sunday School Convention, 1955
	4-5	Leadership Development Working Papers, 1957
	6	Leadership Development Committee Minutes, 1958-62
	7	Leadership Development Papers, 1959-60
	8	Leadership Development Papers, 1961-62
	9	Leadership Development Papers
	10	National Training Lab Group Relations, 1960-61
	11	World Trip--Audio-Visual Aids, Catalogues
	12	World Trip--Brussels, Belgium
	13	World Trip--Japanese newspapers, 1958
	14	World Trip--Near East Newspapers, 1958
	15	World Trip--Indian and Pakistani newspapers
	16	World Trip--Indian and Pakistani booklets, misc.
	17	World Trip--Philippine booklets, papers
	18	World Trip--European newspapers, 1958
	19	"Prelude to Reprieve" General Assembly
	20	General Assembly, 1961
	21	General Assembly, 1962
	22	Nuclear Testing, 1962
	23	Viewpoint Tapes, 1962

		General Council--Division of Radio and Television

1	24	Manual: Policy for Division of Radio and TV of UPCUSA, 1962
	25	1960
	26	Executive Committee Meeting September, 1962
	27	Staff, publications, clippings--GA, 1963
	28	Minutes, correspondence, papers
	29	Minutes, correspondence, 1963
	30	Minutes, correspondence, 1963-65

2	1	Division of Radio and TV

		National Council of Churches--Broadcasting and Film Commission

2	2	Annual report to the Board of Managers, 1960-61, 1965
	3	Board of Managers Annual Meeting Minutes, 1961, 1965
	4	Executive Committee Minutes, 1961, 1963, 1965
	5	Program Board Minutes, 1961
	6	TV Committee Minutes, 1960, 1963-65
	7	Program Committee Operations--minutes, 1962, 1965
	8	1962-1965
	9	Program Board, 1960-65
	10	Financial report, etc, 1960
	11	Budget, Recommendations of Finance Committee, 1961
	12	Annual Meeting, 1961
	13	Executive Committee, 1961
	14	Structure, Bylaws
	15	Bylaws, budget, 1962
	16	Board of Managers, 1962
	17	1962-63
	18	Business and Finance Committee, 1963
	19	Board of Managers, 1963
	20	Board of Managers, 1963-64
	21	Board of Managers, 1964
	22	Board of Managers, 1964-65
	23	Board of Managers, Meeting, 1965
	24	Board of Managers, 1965
	25	Government and Industry Committee
	26	Communication Seminar--State Level
	27	TV and Adult Education Committee
	28	TV progress
	29	Promotion
	30	Resume
	31	papers, articles, 1960-61
	32	West Coast Office--minutes, correspondence, 1961-65
	33	Broadcasting and Film Commission
	34	"Frontiers of Faith", 1962-65
	35	"Look up and Live," 1962
	36	Committee, 1962
	37	Committee, 1963

3	1	1964
	2	1965
	3	Finances, 1965
	4	Committee Minutes, 1965
	5	War and Peace, 1965
	6-7	Scripts
	8	"The Key and the Labyrinth" script
	9	NCC--Children's Educational TV Committee minutes, etc, 1963-65
	10	Children's Educational TV Committee
	11	Consultation on Children and TV January, 1961
	12	Division of Christian Education, 1960, St. Louis, 1961
	13	Department of Administration and Leadership
	14	Commission on General Christian Education, 1961

		Board of Christian Education--Office of Educational Television

3	15	Capital Needs--California forms, 1963
	16	Mould's reports, etc., 1963
	17	California correspondence, 1963
	18	correspondence, memos, articles, 1963
	19	Commission on Capital Needs, 1964
	20	Supplemental Questionnaire on Junior High TV programs
	21	Class attendance record, 1960
	22	Junior High Pupil Survey Tabulations, July 1961
	23	Teacher Survey Tabulations, July 1961
	24-25	Teacher Survey Comments
	26	Junior High Materials to Churches "That They May Know," 1960
	27	Film and Script correspondence
	28	Publicity
	29	Programs--Scripts
	30	Reactions
	31	Research

4	1	Research Tabulation
	2	Receipt forms teachers, pupils
	3	Senior Highs
	4	TV--"Our Tangled World," Correspondence
	5	Personnel
	6	Correspondence, Notes, Memos, Progress Report
	7	Adult Work
	8	Audience Research Questions, Ratings
	9-10	Department of Audio-Visual Instruction, 1961 Convention materials
	11	Department of Audio-Visual Instruction
	12	TV--BREAKTHRU
	13	Budget, 1960-61 memo, 1959
	14	memos, guides, 1960-63
	15	Children's programs
	16	Communism, right-wing
	17	Films, Communism
	18	TV--Developments
	19	Educational Uses papers, minutes, notes, etc.
	20	Advisory Committee on Educational TV
	21	TV--Equipment
	22	Field Directors' Communications
	23	Film catalogues
	24	Films, tapes, etc.
	25	"Man and His Problems"--progress reports
	26	"Man and His Problems"
	27	general
	28	general correspondence, 1960-63
	29	inquiries
	30	Information Office

5	1	National Association for Better Radio and TV
	2	TV--NCC, other councils
	3	Network programs
	4	Pamphlets
	5	Process
	6	Program flyers
	7	Publicity
	8	Relationships on the Field
	9	Religious programs
	10	Stations
	11	Talent Prospects and Writers
	12	Teaching by TV
	13	U.N. Radio Broadcast
	14	Women's Department
	15	Workshops
	16	World Association for Christian Broadcasting

		Board of Christian Education--Office of Educational Television

5	17	"Broadcast Training Reconsidered"--Charles Brackbill, Jr.
	18	"Television and Christian Training"
	19	Appalachia Project--printed material
	20	1962-63
	21	Background material on the right wing
	22	Board of Christian Education--Board Meeting, April 1962
	23	The Christian Educator, 1960
	24	"The Greatest Story Ever Told"
	25	Film Awards Committee
	26	Office of Family Education Research
	27	Office of Family Education Research--working papers
	28	Pennsylvania State Sunday School Association, 1962
	29	World Council of Christian Education, 1963
	30	Photographs

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