90 The New-York Historical Society tional television had produced valuable interpretations of important chapters of our Country's past. This series was a salute to the medium of television as an instrument of education, to its personnel and their accomplishments. Films and kinescopes included in the programs were selected both for reasons of content and technique from several of the best television programs. The speakers in this series were men intimately concerned with the production of at least one of the programs represented in the series. Each discussed some aspect of the concepts, methods, and problems which the presentation and interpretation, via television, of American historical material presented. Included in the series were selections from the following shows: wcbs-tv, "You Are There"; omnibus (Robert Saudek Associates); nbc-tv, Special Projects; Guild Films, Inc., "I Spy" Series; and wcbs-nyu, "America in the Making." The speakers were: January n, Mr. Daniel W. Jones, Director of Research, nbc—tv, Special Projects; January 18, Mr. Lou Shainmark, Vice President, Guild Films Company, Inc.; February 8, Mr. Walter Cronkite, cbs News Correspondent; February is, Mr. George M. Benson, Vice President, Robert Saudek Associates; and February 22, Professor Ormond Drake, Director of Town Hall and Dean at New York University. Films: January 11, The Boston Massacre, The Boston Tea Party, The Resolve of Patrick Henry; January 18, The Signing of the Declaration of Independence, Betrayal of West Point, Immortality at 11 a.m. (The Story of Nathan Hale); January 2$, The Hamilton-Burr Duel, P. T. Barnum Presents Jenny Lind, The Emancipation Proclamation; February 8, The Heroism of Clara Barton, The Death of Stonewall Jackson, The Amateur (The Story of Belle Boyd); February 15, Lee at Gettysburg (permission for showing granted by American Federation of Television and Radio Artists and American Federation of Musicians); February 22, George Washington—Man and Myth, Washington's Farewell to His Officers; March 8, The Jazz Age; March is, The Thirties; March 22, D-Day, The Liberation of Paris, and The Berlin Airlift. Films from the Society's Film Library: In recent years this Society's Film Library has been very considerably enriched through the addition by both purchase and gift of several fine films. These "visual aids," in both black and white and color, include documentaries, historical and biographical titles, feature and news films, and were acquired for use in the school program. It was felt that members of the Society and the interested public would be glad for the opportunity to see the best of the films newly added to the film library. The Supervisor of Education commented briefly on the use of the films in the school program. Films: April 12, English and Dutch Colonization in the New World, The Spanish Conquest of the New World, Early Settlers of New England, 18th Century Life in Colonial Williamsburg, Virginia; April 19, The Story That Couldn't Be Printed, The U. S. Navy in the War of Independence, Benjamin Franklin, American Battleground; April 26, U. S.