New in Digital Collections: For Our Times Digitized Videos
Recently added to our Digital Collections website are digitized episodes from the CBS series For Our Times from the John Phillip Santos Collection.
The UTSA Digital Collections website previously had 5 episodes from the series available to view. The completion of a recent digitization project adds about 15 new episodes of the series online.
Highlights from the newest batch of videos include:
- World Talk: The Meeting at Oxford Part 1 and Part 2
- This two-part special covers the Global Forum of Spiritual and Parliamentary Leaders on Human Survival held at Oxford. The meeting brought together religious and spiritual leaders to discuss global issues such as nuclear terror, homelessness, and global warming. Interviews included in these episodes are conducted with the Dali Lama, Mother Teresa, and Carl Saegen.
- From Mission to Ministry: Hispanic Spirituality Emerges
- This episode explores the Hispanic community’s relationship with the Catholic church. Story elements and footage featured in this episode come from San Antonio, Texas.
For Our Times was an educational program that aired from the late 1970s through the 1980s and focused on religious, political, and social issues occurring throughout the world. Multiple episodes of For Our Times were nominated for Daytime Emmy Awards, as listed below:
Daytime Emmy in Outstanding Special Class Program (1985)
- For Our Times: To See a World – Daytime Emmy Winner
- For Our Times: Exiles Who Never Left Home – Daytime Emmy-Nominated
- For Our Times: Is Anyone Listening? – Daytime Emmy-Nominated
- For Our Times: Family Farms – Daytime Emmy-Nominated
Daytime Emmy in Outstanding Special Class Program (1988)
- For Our Times: From the AIDS Experience: Our Spirits to Heal – Daytime Emmy-Nominated
Prior to digitization, these episodes were originally Umatic and VHS tapes from the John Phillip Santos collection. John Phillip Santos is a producer, journalist, author, filmmaker and professor from San Antonio, Texas. He was an executive producer for over 40 broadcast documentaries for CBS and PBS. He was nominated for a Daytime Emmy for the episode “From the AIDS Experience: Our Spirits to Heal” in 1988.
You can watch a selection of For Our Times episodes on our Digital Collections page here.
Sources:
Daytime Emmy Awards (1985). https://www.imdb.com/event/ev0000206/1985/1
Daytime Emmy Awards (1988). https://www.imdb.com/event/ev0000206/1988/1
John Phillip Santos Papers, MS 203, University of Texas at San Antonio Libraries Special Collections. https://www.txarchives.org/utsa/finding_aids/00143.xml
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