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- August 1958-21 January 1960 (Creation)
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Comprises annotated camera and filming scripts, 5 black and white photographs (taken by Dennis Reed) of the set for series 2, a typescript of a "crash programme" in series 2 on 'One Man's Vision', and correspondence about programme content and from guests featured in the programmes.
Also includes: notes and correspondence on programme 7 about 'Taking a Risk' which was cancelled; notes on a discussion about 'The Prospect before Us' with Aldous and Julian Huxley; notes on relativity as a possible basis for programme 11; a press cutting about 'Tests in Velocity of Light' (Nov 1958); and an outline of themes and ideas for the 13 programmes in series 2 of 'New Horizon'.
Programmes were entitled: 'Seeing is Believing' (1), 'How a Discovery is Made' (2), 'The Best Years of Our Lives' (3), 'Men and Animals' (4), 'What Makes Things Happen?' (5), 'Chance or Choice?' (6), 'What use in Maths?' (8), 'No Head for Figures' (9), 'Seeing the Pattern' (10), 'Smaller than Atoms' (11), 'Time and Space' (12), and 'The Common Sense of Science' (13).
The file additionally includes a camera script for an episode of 'This Week' television programme [show about politics and current affairs] featuring Bronowski, Richard Goold-Adams, Michael Nelson, Peter Rawlinson QC, Mr Vickers, and Michael Ingrams (21 Jan 1960).
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Photographs measure 255mm x 206mm.