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The Things We See

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Written by
  
Alan Jarvis

Country of origin
  
Canada

No. of seasons
  
1

First episode date
  
2 July 1957

Network
  
CBC Television

Number of episodes
  
12

Presented by
  
Alan Jarvis

Original language(s)
  
English

No. of episodes
  
12

Final episode date
  
24 September 1957

Number of seasons
  
1

Language
  
English

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

Contents

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.

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.

Scheduling

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

References

The Things We See Wikipedia