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BILL MOYERS' JOURNAL: LEWIS MUMFORD AT 77 (TV)
Summary
One in this series of programs on people and issues in the political and cultural forefront. In this edition, host Bill Moyers talks with Lewis Mumford, a cultural writer and critic who has specialized in architecture and design, at his home in Armenia, New York. Mumford characterizes himself as a Jeffersonian democrat and says the U.S. lacks the small units and face-to-face relations on which democracy depends. He complains that "super-organizations" in the U.S. are too large, that man too easily adapts to corruption, ugliness and boredom, and that we allow machines to replace memory. Mumford says he is fundamentally an optimist and hopes for America that his worst fears of oversized democracy do not come true.
Details
- NETWORK: PBS
- DATE: March 27, 1973 8:30 PM
- RUNNING TIME: 0:28:54
- COLOR/B&W: Color
- CATALOG ID: T78:0625
- GENRE: Talk/Interview
- SUBJECT HEADING: Talk/Interview; Architects; Politics
- SERIES RUN: PBS - TV series, 1972-1976, 1979-1981
- COMMERCIALS: N/A
CREDITS
- Jerome Toobin … Executive Producer
- Jack Sameth … Producer, Director
- Margaret Dennis … Associate Producer
- Bill Moyers … Host
- Lewis Mumford