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[[underlined]] Television [[/underlined]]

Mr. Tom Wolf, Television Consultant to the Secretary, continues to explore avenues for increasing the Institution's outreach through both network and public television in addition to cable, direct-broadcast satellite, low-power television, and teleconferencing by satellite. He is investigating the possibility of bringing to junior and senior high schools curriculum-enrichment programs in science, history, and art under Smithsonian aegis. Mr. Wolf is also investigating ways in which all Smithsonian museums may share the National Air and Space Museum's excellence in audio-visual exhibition techniques and is examining the market place with a view of increasing the educative value of museum collections by means of interactive video discs. 

In the meanwhile, the Office of Telecommunications has been working on several specific projects:

-[[underlined]] Smithsonian World [[underlined]] - The McDonnell Foundation's payment of $500,000 in research and development funds to WETA, has enabled executive producer Martin Carr to assemble a core research and pre-production staff who are pursuing this phase of the project. Preliminary work will develop extended treatments for the first two programs, detailed descriptions for the remaining programs, a video pilot of the series' opening, and recommendations for the series' principal narrator. This material will be reviewed by the Smithsonian and by WETA for approval prior to its presentation to the Foundation around October 1. Upon favorable review of that presentation, the Foundation is expected to grant a total of $3 million for the series. Meanwhile, McDonnell-Douglas and its advertising agency, J. Walter Thompson, have developed appropriate mock-up ads to promote the series.