Before There Was A USA ★🥅 Educational Films from the 1950's

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Before There Was A USA ★🥅 Educational Films from the 1950's

"'Before there was a USA' is the history of Colonial North America. Reverend John Francis Bannon, SJ, Director of the Department of History at St. Louis University, is instructor for the course. Father Bannon, who has developed an enthusiastic response to this program in St. Louis, lists as main objectives of the series the following:

• To tell the story of Colonial North America so that viewers have a better understanding and a deeper appreciation of a period in American History which is intensely interesting and important. • To show that human nature and human motives are basically the same in every period in history. • To point out some of the contributions made to America by some of the nations in Europe."

12 lessons, filmed in 1955 by KETC (St. Louis), for broadcast over the JUST Created N.E.T. Television Network ... I think. I do not believe much ANY of this information has changed much AT All in the intervening sixty nine years! This information is still relevant, and correct - and is presented in a way not often seen in today's classroom. This is what college lectures at the time would have looked like! (You can find an amazing amount of old classroom films moldering on YouTube ... )

NET 🥅 - National Educational Television - was the direct predecessor to the Public Broadcasting System (PBS) ... and to this very day: PBS is still known for producing the highest quality educational and news programming. NET was launched on May 16 1954 by some forward thinking people - who hoped television had a more noble purpose, and destiny, than just being a machine for separating money from slack jawed hypnotized consumers. NET is older than most of us - and the "Grandfather" of all educational television!!!

This is the Second Oldest Series I have Uploaded, so far - with Religions Of Man being the Oldest. Both Series were filmed in 1955 at the studios of KECT in St. Louis and are 69 years old! Both Series are Still Good!!

St. Louis, in 1955, was at the VERY START of a continuing tradition of excellence in educational video ... so now you can see what the state of the art in educational television looked like Sixty Nine Years ago. Television was just beginning to be explored as an educational medium at the time ... ripe with potential! Remember, this was still 14 years before Sesame Street would be Born ... literally the Very DAWN of Educational Television!!!

To the best of my knowledge: all N.E.T. productions passed into the public domain years ago.

Episodes: Before There Was A USA 01 How There Happened To Be American History Before There Was A USA 02 The First Immigrants To America Before There Was A USA 03 The Spaniards Hit The Jackpot Before There Was A USA 04 Spains Rivals Muscle In Before There Was A USA 05 Englishmen Found An Empire Before There Was A USA 06 Wooden Shoes On The Hudson Before There Was A USA 07 From Fish To Furs In The North Before There Was A USA 08 Padres Coureurs-De-Bois And Backwoodsmen Before There Was A USA 09 The Contest For North America Before There Was A USA 10 How Not To Run An Empire Before There Was A USA 11 These United Colonies Before There Was A USA 12 The Legacy Of The Colonial Centuries

Download this ★ Entire Series ★ all at once, HERE (5.8 GB): https://archive.org/compress/before-there-was-a-usa/formats=MPEG4&file=/before-there-was-a-usa.zip

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Archive

Internet Archive, in Lost telecourses

Licence or status

Public Domain Mark 1.0, as the Internet Archive states it.

Rights statement

All N.E.T. Videos are Public Domain

Credit

KETC

Language

English

Who can watch

The archive gives no rating. Invisible Network shows it to Tweens profiles and older, judged from its collection and subjects. How films are placed