MEANT FOR READING (10 films)

Duration: 30 min

Year Published: 1958

Creator: KQED, Kinescope

Format: 16mm

Color: B&W

Sound: Sound

Description: Titles are: 1. READINGS ON FREEDOM. Explores the concept of freedom as treated in literature. Includes readings from the works of Milton, Benet, Becker, Wordsworth, Keats, Browning, Whitman, Lowell, and Tennyson. 2. MORTALITY—I. Discusses the subject of mortality as treated in literature. Includes the poems of Sir Walter Raleigh, John Donne, Robert Herrick, Shakespeare, and others. 3. MORTALITY—II. Continues the exploration of literature illustrating acceptance of mortality. Includes readings from the works of Sophocles, Stevenson, Bacon, and Christina Rossetti. 4. NATURE—I. Reading of selections from literature which illustrate the variety of approaches to nature. Includes the works of Shakespeare, Shelley, Arnold, Coleridge, Browning, and Masefield. 5. NATURE—II. Continues the exploration of nature as treated in literature. Includes readings which illustrate the philosophical meaning of nature. Draws from both prose and poetry of Blake, Wordsworth, Thoreau, Lowell, and Mae Leish

Complete Record: Source: NET Interest level: c-ad Price: rent $4.75 Format: sd b&w

Metadata Source:Educational film guide. Supplements (1959-62)