Media Probes Epsiode 3: Language

How various media affect the way people live and think is explored in this informative magazine-style survey that includes documentary, animated and dramatized segments.



A study of language focusing on the National Theater of the Deaf, an abusive language specialist and a Doonesbury cartoon strip praising California's "mellow-speak."



'Language" is hosted by Victor Borge.



Mickey Lemle and Kit Laybourne  Executive Produced the “Media Probes” series aired in PBS's Core schedule in 1982. The won an Alfred I. DuPont-Columbia Citation and multiple Blue Ribbons at American Film Festival.



Each episode of the eight-part 1982 series has a different host: Cheryl Tiegs for `Photography,' Ruth Warrick for `Soap Operas,' John Cameron Swayze for `TV News,' Victor Borge for `Language,' Mark Shields for `Political Spots,' Bill Blass for `Design,' Tony Kahn for `Soundaround' and Peter Schwartz for `The Future.'


Sources

  1. 16mm Filmography (legacy record) — title, year, format, description, catalog record, video