1960? JIMINY CRICKET (RADIO)
Summary
A musical documentary for children and adults about the way life will be in America in 1960. Jiminy Cricket, Donald Duck, and the Seven Dwarfs predict future problems and solutions.
Topics discussed include: inflation, the population explosion, industrial production, and social and military conditions. The program concludes with a "visit" to the future – an ideal vision of plenty. The material used for this program was compiled from a book entitled "America's Needs and Resources," published by the Twentieth Century Fund.
https://www.paleycenter.org/collection/item/?item=R77:0175
MP3
https://ia800508.us.archive.org/25/items/1960JiminyCricket/1947-09-08Abc1960JiminyCricket.mp3
"ABC produced especially innovative documentaries. The network then lagged behind CBS and NBC in audiences and hit programs, encouraging it to take chances. It even produced a musical documentary, 1960?? Jiminy Cricket! The program dramatized an 800-page think tank report on the country’s needs and resources. It was helped by Walt Disney’s studio, which loaned characters and music to promote Disney’s new animated feature Fun and Fancy Free. According to the ABC documentary, 1960 promised an America of improved labor relations, shorter work weeks, and improved housing and transportation."
https://publish.illinois.edu/radioutopia/
so as early as 1947 Disney was working with "think tanks."
1947's Twentieth Century Fund is now The Century Foundation:
https://tcf.org/about/
Kamala Harris and Corey Booker are participating in an online event next week
APRIL 13
FROM 1:00 PM TO 2:00 PM
ONLINE
https://tcf.org/content/event/policy-leaders-in-conversation-during-bmhw22-ft-vp-kamala-harris/
Walt Disney often visited the Phoenician town of Eze in Southern France.
The Golden Goat
La Chèvre d’Or.
https://nojennyno.blogspot.com/2014/04/eze-village-that-awed-walt-disney.html
Obamas and bono also
https://www.monacomatin.mc/people/videos-barack-obama-et-sa-famille-rendent-visite-au-chanteur-bono-sur-la-cote-dazur-391520
United States Space Force
@SpaceForceDoD
The @DeptofDefense sponsors the Hacking 4 Defense program, which provides engineering, business, and policy students with opportunities to work on government-sponsored national security problems. #SemperSupra
https://www.patrick.spaceforce.mil/News/Article-Display/Article/2988384/providing-world-class-mission-assurance-how-the-5th-sls-is-working-with-hacking/
4:00 PM · Apr 10, 2022 · Sprout Social
https://twitter.com/SpaceForceDoD/status/1513245437955825670
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cpb-bUC_w1A
notable