Oral history interview with Lloyd N. Morrisett, 1999
Abstract
Education: University of California at Los Angeles, undergraduate studies, psychology; Yale University, Ph.D., psychology; University of California at Berkeley: professor, psychology, 1956-1958; association with Carnegie Corporation, 1959-1969: executive assistant, promotion to vice president; philosophy of communications technology in early childhood education: children's television programming, d evelopment of Sesame Street, cooperation with Ford Foundation, Office of Education; president, John and Mary Markle Foundation, 1969; chairman, Children's Television Workshop, 1969-present; role of private philanthropy in American life; reminiscences of colleagues
Early childhood education; Television and children; Television in education; Educators; Television producers and directors; Creative thinking; Thought and thinking; Morrisett, Lloyd, 1929-; Carnegie Corporation of New York; Children's Television Workshop; Sesame Street (Television program)
Format
oral histories
Genre
Interviews
Origin Information
1999
Physical Description
42 pages
Note (Biographical)
Educator; Television producer
Note (Funding)
Digital reproduction funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and Carnegie Corporation of New York
Note
Digitized by Safe Sound Archive, Philadelphia, 2010.
Interviewed by: Sharon Zane on April 13, 1999 in New York, New York.
Service copy (44 kHz, 16 bit) and rendered version (96 kHz, 24 bit) of sound file derived from a digital preservation master digitized at 96 kHz, 24 bit.
Note (Provenance)
Gift of: Lloyd N. Morrisett
Note (Copyright)
Copyright held by The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York, 2006.
Language
English
Library Location
Oral History Archives at Columbia, Columbia University