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

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.…

- Kind: Talk
- Year: 1955
- By: KETC
- Genres: Education
- Archive: [Internet Archive](https://archive.org/details/before-there-was-a-usa)
- Licence or status: [Public Domain Mark 1.0](https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/) (as the archive states it)
- Who can watch: Tweens profiles and older (the archive gives no rating; placed by Invisible Network from its collection and subjects)

[Watch now](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/watch/archive/ia/before-there-was-a-usa?play=1)