The Strange Case of the English Language
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content: Local Number: HSFA 1993.24.39
name: label: Collection Creator
content: University of California (System). Extension Media Center
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content: University of California Extension Media Center (EMC) film collection
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content: Film reels (color sound; 1,705 feet)
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content: circa 1968
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Human Studies Film Archives
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content: Archival materials
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content: Film reels
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content: Television broadcast produced by CBS News is a slightly tongue-in-cheek discussion of the quirks and foibles of the English language and those who speak it. Film includes interviews with linguist Mario Pay and author Theodore Bernstein concerning the effects of television, movies, and radio on the spoken word; a look at the devices of speech such as metaphors and usages of adverbs and adjectives; and film clips of public speakers including Winston Churchill, Adlai Stevenson, Billy Graham, Martin Luther King, Gerald Ford, and many others. Film concludes with an interview with actor Peter Ustinov.

Legacy Keywords: Clemens, Robert cameraman ; North America