MOLONY, Eileen (1914-1982)
Identity Statement
Reference code(s) | : GB 0366 EM |
Held at | : Institute of Education Click here to find out how to view this collection at http://www.ucl.ac.uk/library/sites/ioe › |
Full title | : MOLONY, Eileen (1914-1982) |
Date(s) | : 1969-[1979] |
Level of description | : collection |
Extent | : 2 boxes; 13 videocassettes; 27 reels of film |
Name of creator(s) | : Molony | Eileen | 1914-1982 | television producer |
Detailed catalogue | : Click here to view repository detailed catalogue |
Context
Administrative/Biographical history:
Eileen Molony (1914-1982) was a BBC television producer involved in the production of a wide range of programmes, particularly in the areas of travel, natural history, education and child development. She produced the television series The Expanding Classroom which was first broadcast in 1969 and intended to provide an insight into schools which were implementing some of the recommendations of the Report of the Central Advisory Council for Education, Children and Their Primary Schools, 1967 (The Plowden Report). The schools covered in the programmes included Ashton County Primary School, Worcestersire; Eveline Lowe Primary School, London; Ashley Down Junior School, Bristol; Devizes Road Primary School, Salisbury, Wiltshire; Delves Infants' School, Walsall, Staffordshire; Fernwood Primary School, Nottinghamshire; Huntingdon Primary School, Nottinghamshire; Milford Primary School, Nottinghamshire; Portlans Primary School, Nottinghamshire; Green Meadow Primary School, Swindon, Wiltshire; and Eynsham County Primary School, Oxfordshire.
Content
Scope and content/abstract:
Material relating to the production of the BBC television documentary The Expanding Classroom including correspondence, research material, scripts, shooting schedules, shot lists and transcripts; films and videocassettes, most relating to various television series about education, including The Expanding Classroom; 3 audio tapes of Robin Tanner talking to Eileen Molony, [Jan] 1979.
Access & Use
Language/scripts of material:
English
System of arrangement:
Conditions governing access:
Open.
Conditions governing reproduction:
A reader wishing to publish any quotation of information, including pictorial, derived from any archive material must apply in writing for prior permission from the Librarian or other appropriate person(s) as indicated by the Archivist. A limited number of photocopies may be supplied at the discretion of the Archivist.
Finding aids:
Catalogue by Thora Wagstaffe/Guinever Moyes of the National Primary Education Archive. Accessions DC/10/98 and DC/12/98 are not included in this catalogue.
Archival Information
Archival history:
The majority of the material was given by Eileen Molony to Leonard Marsh, Principal of Bishop Grossteste College shortly before her death in 1982. They were transferred by Professor Marsh to the National Primary Education Archive on its formal constitution in Mar 1990. (NPEA Acc No: 24 )
Immediate source of acquisition:
Collected from Bishop Grossteste Training College in June 1998.
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Date(s) of descriptions:
Created 06/15/1999, modified 12/7/2000
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