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Elder, Donald - Interview

Item number (ISN):

304664

Hierarchical level:

Item (Accession level)

Date:

1983-01-19

Item number (ISN):

304664

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Type of material:

Sound recordings

Found in:

Archives / Film, Video and Sound

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Record information – Details

Fonds/collection:

RAINSBERRY, Fred B.

Accession:

1983-0359

Media:

Sound

Part:

1 of 1

Production date:

1983-01-19

Production company:

Fred B. Rainsberry (Interviewer)

Production credit:

interviewer, Fred B. Rainsberry

Description:

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Interview of Donald Elder in Toronto about children’s television programming. He talks about: joining the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation in the 1965-1966 season; working on the series REACH FOR THE TOP and the schools broadcasts; going to the Ontario Educational Communications Authority (OECA) to work on schools broadcasts; returning to CBC in 1970 to do the series THE NEW MAJORITY; shooting that series on film but packaging it in the studio; the use of film material on the 1970-1971 series VIDEO ONE; more about THE NEW MAJORITY and a specific program about prison reform; host John Kastner; the cancellation of THE MAJORITY and VIDEO ONE because of low audience ratings; the 1973 series YOUTH CONFRONTATION with host Bruce Rogers; the 1974 series DR. ZONK AND THE ZUNKINS, with Trevor Evans; Gildna Radner and Rosemary Racliffe on that series; the 1975-1976 series COMING UP ROSIE starring Rosemary Radcliffe; cast members such as Barry Baldaro, John Stocker, John Candy, Fiona Reid, Dan Hennessey and Dan Ackroyd; the show’s low audience ratings and CBC’s failure to promote the series adequately; the lack of interest in the show by CBC management; the show’s second season with John Candy and Catherine O’Hara; the series’ writers, including Dave Thomas, Barbara Evans, David Mayerovitch and Stuart Northey; the 1975-1977 series HOMEMADE TV; the waning in the 1970s of the concept of a children’s department at CBC because children’s shows did not make as much money as adult shows; the 1977 show FOR KIDS BY KIDS; the lack of research in the 1970s about child television viewers and the role of children’s television programs; the need for a separate children’s television channel; more about the people who worked on THE NEW MAJORITY; the DROP-IN series; and the need for research into the use of media rather than the impact of media. <1h 2mn>

Language:

English

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1. The release form states that this interview is available as of 19 January 1983 for CBC use, scholarly research and public access.~2. F.B. Rainsberry used the information in the oral history interviews for his book, "A History of Children’s Television in English Canada, 1952-1986," The Scarecrow Press, Inc., Metuchen, N.J. and London, 1988.
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Conditions of access:

Open

Consultation copy number:

A1 2006-12-0044

Restrictions on consultation:

No Restrictions / Pas de restrictions

Reproduction access:

with written permission of copyright owner : with permission of Margaret RainsberryFred B. Rainsberry died in 1996.Margaret Rainsberry, his wife, owns copyright on his material.

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