CBS REPORTS: THE POPULATION EXPLOSION (TV)
Summary
One in this series of irregularly scheduled in-depth reports. This program studies the world population explosion, focusing particularly on India. Howard K. Smith talks with the Housing Minister of Bombay, where clips show the poor live on the streets. Indian experts, including Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru, discuss their country's problems and the threat Red China poses to their large and discontented population. Also included is a look at the problems of educating India's population to practice birth control, the responses of India's dominant religions to birth control, and a debate between American clerics on the subject of birth control. The program closes with a summary of the problem by Smith.
Preservation of the Post–World War II American Television Documentary Collection is supported in part by a Federal Save America’s Treasures grant administered by the National Endowment for the Humanities.
Details
- NETWORK: CBS
- DATE: November 11, 1959 Wednesday 10:00 PM
- RUNNING TIME: 0:51:57
- COLOR/B&W: B&W
- CATALOG ID: T78:0569
- GENRE: Public affairs/Documentaries
- SUBJECT HEADING: Birth control; India - Officials - Talk/Interviews; India - Social conditions; Sino-Indian Border Dispute, 1957-; India - Foreign relations - China
- SERIES RUN: CBS - TV series, 1959-
- COMMERCIALS: N/A
CREDITS
- Fred W. Friendly … Executive Producer
- Av Westin … Producer
- Palmer Williams … Associate Producer
- Howard K. Smith … Reporter
- Jawaharlal Nehru