the class includes a look at animated films from the 1950s created by frank capra. this is about 45 minutes. >> all right. so good afternoon and welcome. today we're going to talk about cold war era science education films, in particular ones that were made for tv and the classroom. now, we've been talking about classroom films before. really to do any kind of history of classroom films you need to understand the scholarship in a lot of fields. so i will be quoting and referencing and putting together a list that i've done, work that's been done by historians of science, film studies people, communication studies scholars. so this will be particularly interesting. for reasons that should by now be obvious, the topic is interdisciplinarian. we are going to return to this question, what are the relationships between art, science, entertainment and clul occur. in cinema how did they reinforce one another in these particular contexts. we're going to see the movement of people, the same people across institutions, right, across media forums and across science. so it is a

so what gives with frank capra and his directing and production of many of these films?it was thought, had the perfect background for this. he actually had some science training lear in his undergraduate degree from cal tech and chemical engineering in 1918 and during world war i, he taught math to artillery recruits at fort scott in san francisco. so he wasn't ever going to be a filmmaker. at the age of five his family emigrated to l.a. and worked through college doing odd jobs and in san francisco he saw an advertisement for the opening of the film studio and he went and basically hustled himself in the door and let them think he had more experience than he actually did with cameras and various other things because he was interested in it and that was the thing that got the ball rolling. now he left, although he had a great deal of success in hollywood in the '30s. as i said, he left hollywood and he came back at a moment when his career was in a bit of a lull. >> many of us remember him primarily for "it's a wonderful life," a christmas classic and a much beloved film

what gives with frank capra and his directing and production of many of these films?ht had the perfect background for this. he actually had some science training. he earned his undergraduate degree from cal tech in chemical engineering in 1918, and during world war i he taught math to artillery recruits at fort scott in san francisco. at the age of five his family immigrated to l.a. he work himself through college with odd jobs. one day when working as a math he went and basically husband hustled himself in the door, right. made them think he had more experience than he actually did with cameras and other things because he was interested in that, and that got the ball rolling. he left -- although he had a great deal of success in hollywood in the '30s, as i mentioned, he left hollywood to enlist in world war ii and make these other films. he came back at a moment when his career was in a bit of a lull. again, it sounds kind of incongruence because many of us remember him for "it's a wonderful life" which was made in 1946, which was a christmas classic, a much-beloved

the class includes a look at animated programs created by noted hollywood director frank capra in the950s, this about 45 minutes. all right so good afternoon and welcome. today we're going to talk about cold war era science education films. and in particular ones that were made for tv and the classroom. now, we've been

the class also includes a look at animated programs, created by noted hollywood director frank capran the 1950s. this is about 45 minutes.

the class includes a look at animated films from the 1950s created by frank capra.his is about 45 minutes. >> all right. so good afternoon and welcome. today we're going to talk