Videotaping the ABC-TV "Discovery 64" Show in Greenfield Village, Mobile Video Tape Truck on Village Green, November 1963

THF116113 / Videotaping the ABC-TV "Discovery 64" Show in Greenfield Village, Mobile Video Tape Truck on Village Green, November 1963
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Artifact Overview

Discovery 64 was a half hour children's educational show on ABC. It explored history, science, art, current events and other subjects important in a child's world. In November 1963, the show filmed three programs at the Henry Ford Museum and Greenfield Village. Production set up in the museum's Street of Shops and at various locations in the village including Edison's Menlo Park Laboratory.

Artifact Details

Artifact

Negative (Photograph)

Subject Date

November 1963

Collection Title

Location

By Request in the Benson Ford Research Center

Object ID

N.B.34610

Credit

From the Collections of The Henry Ford.

Technique

Gelatin silver process

Color

Black-and-white (Colors)

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Videotaping the ABC-TV "Discovery 64" Show in Greenfield Village, Mobile Video Tape Truck on Village Green, November 1963