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 Season 14 (CBS)(1968-69)
Episode Guide compiled by The Classic TV Archive
with contributions by:  Rina Fox [Uploaded Feb 2018]
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14.01 [593] Camera Three: Zoe Caldwell
08Sep1968 CBS Sun
Host James Macandrew
Synopsis:
Zoe Caldwell, the highly acclaimed star of Broadway's "The Prime of Miss Jean Brodle," is the featured guest of the program this morning,
ushering in the new season of the series with her choice readings from the literature of Australia, the country of her birth.

14.02 [594] Camera Three: Lotte Goslar
15Sep1968 CBS Sun
Host James Macandrew
Synopsis:
A one-woman show for theater-goers with actress-mime-clown-dancer Lotte Goslar.

14.03 [595] Camera Three: Clarence's House
22Sep1968 CBS Sun
Host James Macandrew
Synopsis:
A film study of recluse artist Clarence Schmidt who spent over 50 years building a six-story structure composed of a house, junk, paint and mirrors
in Woodstock, N.Y. Cameras carefully scanned the work, which critics called a "monstrous joke" but also, a "brilliant statement of personal vision".
Conceived as a never-ending effort by the artist, the "house" was recently destroyed by fire.

14.04 [596] Camera Three: New York Film Festival
29Sep1968 CBS Sun
Host James Macandrew
cast:
Milos Forman
Werner Herzog
Richard Schickel
Synopsis:
An interview with Czech film director Milos Forman, West German filmmaker Werner Herzog and film critic Richard Schnickel is presented as the third annual New York Festival.

14.05 [597] Camera Three: Concert With Commentary
06Oct1968 CBS Sun
Host James Macandrew
Synopsis:
Pianist Andre Watts, the remarkable young virtuoso, now 22, and first heard by viewers on Leonard Bernstein's TV Young People's Concerts at age 16, offers a
"concert-with-commentary" and the music of Franz Liszt. He will perform "Rhapsody No. 13", "En Reve", "The Chardas Macabre" and excerpts from Rhapsodies Nos. 2 and 3.

14.06 [598] Camera Three: Really the Country Blues
13Oct1968 CBS Sun
Host James Macandrew
Synopsis:
Two stars sing the blues, revealing in their differing styles similarities of origin and deepening problems of our time.
One is 66-year-old Eddie J. "Son" House Jr., oldtime singer and composer of songs who comes from rural Mississippi.
The other is Buddy Guy, a man in his late 20s who was brought up in urban Chicago.

14.07 [599] Camera Three: Mad Maggie
20Oct1968 CBS Sun
Host James Macandrew
Synopsis:
The title refers to a painting by Pieter Bruegel the famous 16th century Flemish artist known a Bruegel the Elder,
who seems to have had a feeling for fantasy which the current art world would interpret as surrealistic.
On hand to offer his scholarly insight and understanding is Dr. Gilbert Highet, author-critic-teacher in an interpretation of this masterly work.

14.08 [600] Camera Three: The Norman Walker Dance Company
27Oct1968 CBS Sun
directed and produced by Merrill Brockway
Guests: Norman Walker Dance Company, Norman Walker (choreographer-dancer).
Synopsis:
Performance by members of the Norman Walker Dance Company, a leading proponent of the "modern dance" movement with choreographer Norman Walker who talks
about his concern for "here and now". The set pieces, with improvisation, are performed to Judy Collins' rendition of "Suzanne" by Leonard Cohen,
"In My life" by John Lennon, and songs by the rock group The Doors.

14.09 [601] Camera Three: The Faces of Power
03Nov1968 CBS Sun
Host James Macandrew
Synopsis:
Author-artist-journalist Emery Kelen is featured in an analysis of his illustrated thesis on "constitutional psychology. Kelen examines faces of men in power
with a view toward learning something of their personalities, their strengths and their weaknesses, having had to his credit experience observing the faces
of men in power dating back to a jaunt as unofficial journalist-in-residence at the League of Nations.

14.10 [602] Camera Three: Concert of Works by Franz Schubert
10Nov1968 CBS Sun
Host James Macandrew
Synopsis:
Pianist Lili Kraus offers music lovers a special treat this morning in her "concert with commentary of Franz Schubert's works. Tune in for her interpretation
of "The Graetzer Gallop, two waltzes, and other Schubert compositions.

14.11 [603] Camera Three: Know Ye the Hour
17Nov1968 CBS Sun
Host James Macandrew
Synopsis:
"Know Ye the Hour" explores gravestone carving, an important art form of early New England. Films and stills study the efforts of artists Avon Neal and Ann Parker
who are preserving the designs and epitaphs; remote cementaries and unusual tombstones.

14.12 [604] Camera Three: Total Dancer
24Nov1968 CBS Sun
Host James Macandrew
cast:
Carmen de Lavallade
Geoffrey Holder
Quincy Jones
Synopsis:
Dance buffs and those of you who admire grace, skill, power and passion in their performers are urged to tune in for a recital by Carmen De Lavallade.
Her commanding style alone will reward you but so will the choreography by Geoffrey Holder, Carmen's husband. The four dances on the program are set to
the music of Odetta's spirituals, Villa-Lobos "Bachianas Brasileiras", Canteloube's "Songs by Auvergne" and jazz composer Quincy Jones.

14.13 [605] Camera Three: Faces
01Dec1968 CBS Sun
Host James Macandrew
cast:
John Cassavetes
Richard Schickel
Synopsis:
Actor-director John Cassavetes discusses film-making with LIFE magazine's film critic Richard Schickel. Cassavetes is the producer of the recently released
"Faces", which was made over a five-year period on a shoestring budget. The film was shown at film festivals in Cannes, Venice, San Francisco and New York
and opened to rave notices in London and New York.

14.14 [606] Camera Three: The Forgotten Composer
08Dec1968 CBS Sun
Host James Macandrew
cast:
Raymond Lowenthal
Synopsis:
Music buffs are offered a special treat when pianist Raymond Lowenthal recalls and illustrates the originality of currently neglected 19th century composer,
Charles Valentin Alkan. He was a contemporary of Liszt and Chopin, and Lowenthal is hard at work rediscovering him.

14.15 [607] Camera Three: Walk Together Children
15Dec1968 CBS Sun
Host James Macandrew
cast:
Vinie Burrows
Synopsis:
"Camera Three" presents excerpts from Vinie Burrows' one-woman show, "Walk Together Children", which is an off-Broadway success.
It tells the story of the Negro in America in poetry, prose and song.

14.16 [608] Camera Three: Xmas Xamined
22Dec1968 CBS Sun
Host James Macandrew
Synopsis:
Film buffs and series' enthusiasts might tune in for two short works by young filmmakers with cameras beamed on the pre-Christmas spirit in
Southern California and northern Montreal.
In the first, "The Season", the attempt transplanting the traditional Christmas look of another time, is both amusing and ironic,
while the second echoes the frantic pace of big city Montreal in "The Days Before Christmas".

14.17 [609] Camera Three: L'Historie du Soldat
29Dec1968 CBS Sun
Host James Macandrew
cast:
Christopher Walken ..Narrator
James Clouser
Norman Walker
Sally Brayley
Synopsis:
"L'Historire du Soldat." (The Soldier's Tale), Igor Stravinsky's World War I masterpiece, inspired by the story of a soldier who sells his soul
to the Devil for wealth, is narrated by Christopher Walken and danced by James Clouser, Norman Walker and Sally Braylay.

14.18 [610] Camera Three: Aspects of the New Consciousness, I: Humphry Osmond
05Jan1969 CBS Sun
directed and produced by Merrill Brockway.
Guests: Dr. Humphry Osmond, John Bleibtreu
Synopsis:
Discussion of new views of "expanded consciousness," from biology to philosophy, animal behavior, Eastern thought, and psychedelics.
Osmond is Director of Research at the N.J. Bureau of Neurology and Psychiatry; Bleibtreu is an author and expert on animal behavior.

14.19 [611] Camera Three: The Living Theater [Part I]
12Jan1969 CBS Sun
Host James Macandrew
cast:
Julian Beck
Jack Kroll
Synopsis:
Part I. First of a two-part study of the work, method and content of the controversial theater group founded by Julian Beck and his wife, Judith Malina,
it features an interview with the founder-directors by critic Jack Kroll.

14.20 [612] Camera Three: The Living Theater [Part II]
19Jan1969 CBS Sun
Host James Macandrew
Synopsis:
Part two on the work and goals of The Living Theater, a controversial theater group founded and directed by Julian Beck and Judith Malina,
who espoused their radically nonconformist views in an interview here last week, concentrates on illustrative performance excerpts by the company.

14.21 [611] Camera Three: Limbo
26Jan1969 CBS Sun
Host James Macandrew
cast:
Alwin Nikolais
Synopsis:
Program presents "Limbo", a dance designed and choreographed by Alwin Nikolais for the visual effects that can be created by television electronic equipment.

14.22 [612] Camera Three: Grant Johannesen
02Feb1969 CBS Sun
Host James Macandrew
cast:
Grant Johannesen
Zara Nelsova
Synopsis:
A concert featuring world-renowned pianist Grant Johannesen and his wife cellist Zara Nelsova, are featured with Alfredo Antonini conducting the CBS Symphony Orchestra.
Miss Nelsova is soloist for Saint-Saen's "1st Concerto" and Johannesen joins the orchestra for Mozart's "Piano Concerto No. 21 in C Major".
The two soloists play Poulenc's "Sonata 1948".

14.23 [613] Camera Three: A Conversation with Norman Mailer
09Feb1969 CBS Sun
Host James Macandrew
cast:
Norman Mailer
Synopsis:
Author-social and political critic Norman Mailer is today's guest.

14.24 [614] Camera Three: Debussy Concert
16Feb1969 CBS Sun
Host James Macandrew
cast:
Beveridge Webster
Synopsis:
Pianist Beveridge Webster offers a concert with commentary on the works of French composer Claude DeBussy.
He will play "Etude for Five Fingers," "Reflections in the Water," "Fireworks," "Clair de Lune" and "Reverie".
World-renowned American pianist Beveridge Webster offers a concert with - commentary on the works of the French impressionist composer Claude Debussy.
The world - renowned pianist will delight his audience playing Debussy's "Etude for Five Fingers." "Reflections in the Water." Fireworks." "Clair de Lune," and "Reverie."

14.25 [615] Camera Three: Aspects of the New Consciousness
23Feb1969 CBS Sun
Host James Macandrew
Synopsis:
The Rev. Walter J. Ong, S.J., a leading American Jesuit scholar, is interviewed on literature and the changing human condition.

14.26 [616] Camera Three: To Be Young, Gifted and Black
02Mar1969 CBS Sun
directed and produced by James MacAllen.
Host James Macandrew
cast:
Dolores Sutton
Stephen Strimpel
Cicely Tyson
Bruce Hall
Rita Gardner
Bernard Ward
Janet League
Tina Sattin
Gertrude Jeanette
Synopsis:
This program consists of excerpts from the off-Broadway production at the Cherry Lane Theater (1968-69) of "To be young, gifted and black: The world of Lorraine Hansberry",
adapted by Robert Nemiroff (Hansberry’s widower) and directed by Gene Frankel.
This half hour is a tribute to the incisive talent of the late Lorraine Hansberry, author of "A Raisin in the Sun."
for which she won the New York Drama Critics Circle Award at the age of 29.
The title of the program refers to the off-Broadway production of excerpts from her writings, including the above-mentioned play. "The Sign in Sidney Brustein's Window"
and an uncompleted of which are novel portions featured in this broadcast.

14.27 [617] Camera Three: Panorama of Magic [Part I]
09Mar1969 CBS Sun
directed and produced by James MacAllen.
Host James Macandrew
cast:
Milbourne Christopher
Synopsis:
Part I. If magic happens to be your cup of tea, here's a chance to hear a bit of its 5,000-year-old history by a past master of the art,
Milbourne Christopher and see some famous magic feats performed.

14.28 [618] Camera Three: Panorama of Magic [Part II]
16Mar1969 CBS Sun
directed and produced by James MacAllen.
Host James Macandrew
cast:
Milbourne Christopher
Synopsis:
Part II of a two-part series on magic and illusion. Magician Milbourne Christopher, author of "Houdini, the untold story," does tricks of illusion on camera
(without revealing any secrets) and talks about the history of magic and its many meanings and forms

14.29 [619] Camera Three: Bill Evans
23Mar1969 CBS Sun
Host James Macandrew
cast:
Bill Evans
Marty Morrell
Eddie Gomez
Synopsis:
Jazz buffs are treated to a visit with Bill Evans, who will play the piano on his own, join with members of his trio (Marty Morrell on drums and Eddie Gomez
talk about his on bass) and theories of arranging, which he describes as "spontaneous music."

14.30 [620] Camera Three: Sabicas: Flamenco Guitar
30Mar1969 CBS Sun
directed and produced by James MacAllen.
Host James Macandrew
cast:
Sabicas (guitarist)
Maria Alba (dancer)
Los Duendes de Espana (dancers), Adonis Puertas (guitarist), Luis Gomez (singer).
Synopsis:
The most celebrated name in flamenco music, guitar master Sabicas, performs several solos, which include, "Malaguena", "Zapateado", and "Guadalquivir".
Maria Alba, one of the most important names in flamenco dancing, performs and is accompanied by a trio of Young Flamenco Dance Trio Los Duendes de Espana
and by a second guitar, and by flamenco singing.

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06Apr1969
pre-empted for Easter Service


14.31 [621] Camera Three: Gary Karr: The Art of the Bass
13Apr1969 CBS Sun
directed and produced by Merrill Brockway.
Host James Macandrew
Guests:
Gary Karr (double bass), The Electric Karrs (rock band), Alfredo Antonini (conductor) and orchestra.
Synopsis:
Gary Karr, leading performer on the double bass, performs several pieces including one with The Electric Karrs, a rock band from Wisconsin University.
Through visuals and commentary, the story of Karr’s career is told, and the double bass as a serious instrument is discussed.

14.32 [622] Camera Three: Direct Cinema [Part I]
20Apr1969 CBS Sun
directed and produced by Merrill Brockway.
Interviewer: Jack Kroll (senior editor of Newsweek magazine).
Interviewees: Albert Maysles and David Maysles (filmmakers).
Synopsis:
Part one of a two part series in which Jack Kroll interviews Albert and David Maysles about what they call a new technique of natural movie making,
Direct Cinema, with excerpts from their first feature length film "The Salesman" (about a door-to-door salesman of The Bible to poor people in Boston).
The brothers formed a two man crew and followed the salesman around, an early example of "cinema verite."

14.33 [623] Camera Three: Direct Cinema [Part II]
27Apr1969 CBS Sun
directed and produced by Merrill Brockway.
Interviewer: Jack Kroll (senior editor of Newsweek magazine).
Interviewees: Albert Maysles and David Maysles (filmmakers).
Synopsis:
Second of two-part series exploring the technique of Albert and David Maysles to achieve a greater reality in films.
Featured are excerpts from their films and a discussion with arts critic Jack Kroll.

14.34 [624] Camera Three: Los Indios Tabajaras
04May1969 CBS Sun
directed and produced by James MacAllen.
Host James Macandrew
Guests:
Natalicio Lima (guitarist), Antenor Lima (guitarist).
Synopsis:
Two brothers from Brazil, Tabajaran Indians from the jungle interior, Natalicio and Antenor Lima, perform duos on their guitars.
Repertoire ranges from native Indian to Chopin. Performance pieces include:
"Flight of the Bumblebee", Indian music sung and played in Brazilian Indian costume with beads and feathers, a Portuguese song,
light popular fado, Hungarian czardas, "Zigeunerweisen" by Pablo Sarasate, Chopin’s "Waltz", Opus 64 number 2, and "Fantasie-Impromptu.

14.35 [625] Camera Three: Beverly Sills
11May1969 CBS Sun
Host James Macandrew
Synopsis:
American opera lovers are in for an interview with coloratura soprano Beverly Sills who talks about her recent spectacular success in this operatic world,
and a program sparked by her illustrative excerpts from "Manon", Mozart's "Abduction from the Seraglio", Handel's "Julius Caesar" and Moore's "The Ballad of Baby Doe".

14.36 [626] Camera Three: Jeremy
18May1969 CBS Sun
Host James Macandrew
Synopsis:
A film about Jeremy Steig, a jazz-rock-classical flutist and painter.

14.37 [627] Camera Three: Dear Birds
25May1969 CBS Sun
Host James Macandrew
Synopsis:
Filmmaker and anthropologist Robert Gardner of Harvard shows a record he's been able to put on film of a stone-age ritual type of warfare that is still
going on today in the remote highlands of New Guinea. Mr. Gardner's film called "Dead Birds" will be shown on the program, followed by a discussion of
the film and its significance by Gardner himself and anthropologist Colin Turnbull of the Museum of Natural History in New York.

14.38 [628] Camera Three: Aspects of the New Consciousness
01Jun1969 CBS Sun
Host James Macandrew
Synopsis:
Anyone interested in theories and styles in avantgarde music in America will be interested in tuning in for an
interview with composer John Cage by Newsweek drama critic Jack Kroll.
In this third program of an intermittent series of dialogues exploring "aspects of the new consciousness" with men whose ideas stretch the boundaries
of human experience, Cage will talk about his philosophy of contemporary aesthetics with Jack Kroll, Newsweek magazine drama critic.
Cage, whose avant-garde compositions have stood traditional ideas on their heads, has been called by one commentator "one of our contemporary gurus"
for his influence on a new generation of sculptors, painters and dancers.
James Macandrew is the host for "Camera Three".

14.39 [629] Camera Three: The Many Ways of La Femme
08Jun1969 CBS Sun
Host James Macandrew
Synopsis:
Beatrice Arnac, a top attraction in European cabarets, demonstrates her unique and very French presentation of songs.
With each number Mile Arnac tells a story via singing, dancing, acting and mime.

14.40 [630] Camera Three: Cinema, the Beginnings: Georges Melies [Part I]
15Jun1969 CBS Sun
Host James Macandrew
Synopsis:
Georges Melies, a self-taught engineer, magician, artist, businessman and scenic designer, produced more than 500 films between 1895 and 1918.
Unlike his colleagues in the untried art of filmmaking, Melies, a Frenchman, was interested in producing films that would do on a screen what actors did on a stage.
On both Parts I and II of the "Camera Three" presentation, Melies' granddaughter, Madeleine Malthete-Melies, will discuss her grandfather's work and show segments
of more than a dozen of the 60 surviving films he made. Facing loss of his films to the upcoming distributors, Melies burned most of them, and it was not
until 1923 the he was "rediscovered." He died in 1938.

*NOTE: Georges Méliès 1902 film "Le Voyage Dans la Lune" (A Trip to the Moon) was the first Science Fiction film ever made by the French magician and filmmaker.

14.41 [631] Camera Three: Cinema, the Beginnings: Georges Melies [Part II]
22Jun1969 CBS Sun
Host James Macandrew
Synopsis:
Conclusion of this interesting study of the films of Georges Melies, a pioneer in the use of the camera as a storyteller,
an art which has only recently been recognized by Hollywood's moguls.

14.42 [632] Camera Three: The Lively Art of Fakery [Part 1], The Game of Duplicity
29Jun1969 CBS Sun
directed and produced by James MacAllen.
Host James Macandrew.
Participant: Joseph V. Noble (Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City, administration director).
Synopsis:
Part one of two part series on art forgery. In this program, Noble, specialist in the detection of forgeries at the Metropolitan Museum of Art,
discusses with Macandrew the wide range of the subject, types of forgeries, how he uncovered the famous Greek horse fakery.

14.43 [633] Camera Three: The Lively Art of Fakery [Part II], A Modern Day Forger
06Jul1969 CBS Sun
directed and produced by James MacAllen.
Guests:
Joseph Stone (former District Attorney), Anna Marie Stein (wife of forger), Joseph V. Noble (Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City, administration director).
Synopsis:
Part two of two part series on art forgery. Study of one of the biggest art fraud cases in history: David Stein forged Picassos, Chagalls, and Matisses
(41 oils and watercolors) and was indicted and sent to jail. In jail he continued to paint, and in 1969 was given a one-man show in London, which sold out.
On this program a few of the principals in the case examine how it happened.

14.44 [634] Camera Three: Gentlemen Prefer Anita Loos
13Jul1969 CBS Sun
Host James Macandrew
cast:
Anita Loos
Jack Kroll
Synopsis:
Jack Kroll of Newsweek interviews the legendary Anita Loos, author of "Gentlemen Prefer Blondes" and any number of lesser known movie scenarios.

[--] Camera Three:
20Jul1969 CBS Sun
pre-empted for continuous coverage of the lunar landing of Apollo 11 moon mission.


14.46 [636] Camera Three: Sounds for Silents
27Jul1969 CBS Sun
Host James Macandrew
Synopsis:
A half hour of silent movies as selected and used in a lesson by Charles Hofmann, musical director of the Department of Film of the Museum of Modern Art, New York, N.Y.

[--] Camera Three: Carmen de Lavallade
03Aug1969 [repeat]
Four works choreographed by her husband Geoffrey Holder.

[--] Camera Three: Zoe Caldwell
10Aug1969 [repeat]
Zoe Caldwell, who fascinated her Broadway audiences last season as the star of "The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie," offers a delightful reading of selections
from the literature of Australia, the country of her birth, which she personally relishes.

[--] Camera Three: Really the Country Blues
17Aug1969 [repeat]
Two stars sing the blues, restyles similarities of origin and the deepening problems of our time.
One is 66-year-old Eddie J. "Son" House Jr., old-time singer and composer of songs from rural Mississippi.
The other is Buddy Guy, a man in his late 20's who was brought" up in arban Chicago. Tune in for a fusion of the old and new'blues they represent.

[--] Camera Three: Sabicas Flamenco Guitarist
24Aug1969 [repeat]
Flamenco guitarist Sabicas and dancer Maria Alba perform.

[--] Camera Three: Lili Kraus
31Aug1969 [repeat]
Pianist Lili Kraus is in a concert-with commentary of Franz Schubert works.


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