I'm flattered, Cathy!
As soon as I'm able to, I shall.
Darrell
Darrell M. Newton, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, Mass Media and Cultural Studies
The Department of Communication Arts
Salisbury University
269 Fulton Hall
Salisbury, MD 21801
(410) 677-5060 Office
(410) 543-6229 Department
homepage: http://faculty.salisbury.edu/~dmnewton/
>>> Cathy Douglas <[log in to unmask]> 01/08/10 8:54 AM >>>
I'm sure that is very true Darrell.
I would love to read a copy of your book once its published, so please
let me know how I can get a copy?
Thanks
Cathy
> Date: Fri, 8 Jan 2010 08:22:10 -0500
> From: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: ITV programmes on race relations, 1955-1965
> To: [log in to unmask]
>
> Indeed, Cathy, and thanks.
>
> I've been researching my book on broadcast policies and race for
several
> years (finally being published by Manchester this year or next), and
> some of the related memoranda and materials could turn your blood to
ice
> water. I'm sure you, and all of our colleagues, understand.
>
> To see people like Day for who they are, and to note the time in which
> they lived, helps to provide some degree of context. However, the
> occasional touches of levity have helped considerably in staving off
> bitterness.
>
> Onward!
>
> Best always,
>
> Darrell
>
> Darrell M. Newton, Ph.D.
> Associate Professor, Mass Media and Cultural Studies
> The Department of Communication Arts
> Salisbury University
> 269 Fulton Hall
> Salisbury, MD 21801
> (410) 677-5060 Office
> (410) 543-6229 Department
>
> homepage: http://faculty.salisbury.edu/~dmnewton/
> >>> Cathy Douglas <[log in to unmask]> 01/08/10 8:09 AM >>>
>
> Darrell,
>
> Just had to comment on your email, and the humour you brought into
> comments which James Wentworth Day made.
> All too often when discussing serious issues, we can get bogged down
> with the negativity of it all.
>
> It was refreshing to see you still keep a sense of humour, in using
the
> words 'Gee what a sweetheart'!!
>
> Such irony!
>
> Kind regards
>
>
>
>
> Cathy
>
>
>
> > Date: Fri, 8 Jan 2010 07:56:48 -0500
> > From: [log in to unmask]
> > Subject: Re: ITV programmes on race relations, 1955-1965
> > To: [log in to unmask]
> >
> > Hi Kathleen,
> >
> > Understood, but Ian McDonald already helped me to track down the
> episode
> > in question. Associated Rediffusion was the contractor/producer, the
> > programme was presented by Dan Farson, and the show in question was
> > Mixed Marriages (tx. 21/05/58).
> >
> > I've accessed the BFI catalog many times, and visited the library
> often
> > when in London, but as a U.S. scholar, I'm unable to get a copy of
the
> > programme without revisiting. However, I was able to find a brief
clip
> > from ITN and I already had a copy of Black and White in Colour (BBC,
> > 1992) which features the segment. I wanted a copy of the complete
> > programme, though...!
> >
> > FYI: In the programme, writer James Wentworth Day is interviewed,
and
> > explains how he has seen ‘"them" over here’ (West Indian/West
> Africans),
> > their subsequent ‘mixed marriages, and their children.’ He adds,
‘no
> > first class country can afford to produce a race of mongrels.’
> Wentworth
> > Day also referred to their biracial children as 'coffee-coloured
> little
> > imps.'
> >
> > Gee, what a sweetheart.
> >
> > Thanks Kathleen.......
> >
> > Darrell M. Newton, Ph.D.
> > Associate Professor, Mass Media and Cultural Studies
> > The Department of Communication Arts
> > Salisbury University
> > 269 Fulton Hall
> > Salisbury, MD 21801
> > (410) 677-5060 Office
> > (410) 543-6229 Department
> >
> > homepage: http://faculty.salisbury.edu/~dmnewton/
> > >>> Kathleen Chater <[log in to unmask]> 01/08/10 6:51 AM
>>>
> >
> > ITV is a generic term for all the independent companies, which in
the
> > 1958 were strongly regional. Most have now disappeared and their> > in the London area but I can't remember which company had the
> franchise
> > there at that time... If it was a studio-based discussion programme
> > it's possible it was never recorded. Suggest you contact the
British
> > Film Institute who may be able to give further information - or even
> > have a copy themselves, as they did make copies of some programmes.
> > (Despite their title, they include tv). They've also got a great
> > library so they may be able to help with other programmes.
> >
> >
> >
> > I'm sending this out to everyone as it's generally useful
information
> > about tracking down tv programmes. The BFI has always been helpful
> and
> > a mine of information when I've used them.
> >
> >
> >
> > Kathy Chater
> >
> > > Date: Thu, 7 Jan 2010 11:48:13 -0500
> > > From: [log in to unmask]
> > > Subject: Re: ITV programmes on race relations, 1955-1965
> > > To: BASA> > Is anyone familiar with the 1958 ITV programme, People
in Trouble?
> It
> > seems to be the only available example of ITV programming that
> directly
> > addresses racial assimilation in the 1950s. Does anyone know how to
> > obtain a copy?
> > >
> > > Further, does anyone know of any other examples of ITV shows that
> > address race relations and/or the 'immigrant problem?'
> > >
> > > Darrell M. Newton, Ph.D.
> > > Associate Professor, Mass Media and Cultural Studies
> > > The Department of Communication Arts
> > > Salisbury University
> > > 269 Fulton Hall
> > > Salisbury, MD 21801
> > > (410) 677-5060 Office
> > > (410) 543-6229 Department
> > >
> > > homepage: http://faculty.salisbury.edu/~dmnewton/
> > > >>> arthur torrington <[log in to unmask]> 12/08/09 3:51
> AM
> > >>>
> > >
> > > FYI
> > > TV ratings: Small Island debuts with 5m viewers
> > > BBC1's adaptation of Andrea Levy's award-winning novel beats
ITV1's
> > terrestrial movie premiere Batman Begins
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > John Plunkett
> > > guardian.co.uk
> > >
> > > Monday 7 December 2009
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > BBC1's adaptation of Andrea Levy's award-winning novel Small
Island
> > began with 5 million viewers, beating ITV1's terrestrial movie
> premiere
> > Batman Begins last night, Sunday 6 December. Small Island, starring
> > Naomie Harris, David Oyelowo and Ruth Wilson, had a 21% share of the
> > audience for the first of a two-part adaptation between 9pm and
> 10.30pm,
> > according to unofficial overnight figures. Batman Begins had 4.6
> million
> > viewers, a 20% share, between 8.30pm and 11.10pm on ITV1. The
> Christian
> > Bale movie
> > >
> > >> To: [log in to unmask]
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > Let's keep the explicit scene in Small Island in perspective.
> > >
> > > Nine o'clock is the cut-off point on British TV in terms of when
> > violent and sexual material can start to be shown.
> > >
> > > Of course an explicit scene was going to be shown. The narrator
> makes
> > the point about how life changing the experience was for the white
> > woman. That comment would have had less force if the scene had not
> been
> > explicit. The director did not need to show a second explicit scene.
> All
> > that was needed was to show that the woman had become pregnant. The
> > narrator's reference to it also being of a life changing nature
> reminded
> > viewers about the first time.
> > >
> > > It does not seem grounds to me for not showing Small Island to
> A-level
> > students: 16-18 year olds.
> > >
> > > Sean
> >
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