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All right, so good afternoon and welcome.

Today, we're going to talk about Colbor era science education films,

in particular ones that were made for TV and the classroom.

Now, we've been talking about classroom films before.

Really to do any kind of history of classroom film, you need to understand the scholarship in a lot of fields.

So I'm going to be quoting and referencing and pulling together work that I've done,

work that's been done by other historians of science, film studies people, communication studies,

scholars, even folklorists. So this will be particularly interdisciplinary. For reasons that

should by now be obvious. The topic is interdisciplinary.

So in particular, we're going to return to this question, right?

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