The Things We See

The Things We See
Written by	Alan Jarvis
Presented by	Alan Jarvis
Country of origin	Canada
Original language	English
No. of seasons	1
No. of episodes	12
Production
Producer	Marion Dunn [1]
Production location	Ottawa
Running time	30 minutes
Original release
Network	CBC Television
Release	2 July (1957-07-02) – 24 September 1957 (1957-09-24)

The Things We See was a Canadian children's television series on the arts which aired on CBC Television from July to September 1957.

Premise

Alan Jarvis, the National Gallery of Canada's director, hosted this series which encouraged viewers to examine ordinary objects for certain patterns, featuring items from the National Gallery. The series was named for Jarvis' 1947 book The Things We See – Indoors and Out. ^[1]

Special postcards were sold to viewers to support the 11th episode's theme on colour, given that the CBC was limited to black-and-white broadcasts at that time. ^[1]

Scheduling

12 episodes of this half-hour series were broadcast on Tuesdays 5:00 p.m. from 2 July to 24 September 1957.

References

1. Robertson, Clive (2006). Policy matters: administrations of art and culture. YYZ Books. pp. 161–162. ISBN   9780920397367 . Retrieved 11 May 2013.

External links

• Allan, Blaine (1996). "The Things We See". Queen's University. Archived from the original on 24 September 2015. Retrieved 11 May 2013.