NEW DOCUMENTARY ON BIRTH OF UNITED NATIONS TO BE BROADCAST ON NEW YORK PBS TELEVISION STATIONS, 23 – 24 OCTOBER
| |||
| Department of Public Information • News and Media Division • New York |
Note to Correspondents
NEW DOCUMENTARY ON BIRTH OF UNITED NATIONS TO BE BROADCAST
ON NEW YORK PBS TELEVISION STATIONS, 23 – 24 OCTOBER
A documentary film about the birth of the United Nations and the fascinating behind-the-scenes story of the building of its Headquarters is to be shown next week on PBS television. Entitled A Workshop for Peace, the documentary was produced by award-winning American filmmaker Peter Rosen, in association with the United Nations Department of Public Information, with support from Tele Images International, a French distribution company, and Japan’s national broadcaster, NHK.
The one-hour documentary was produced to commemorate the United Nations’ sixtieth anniversary and includes never-before-seen film of the original team of architects at work as they struggled to come up with an appropriate design for the Headquarters of the newly founded Organization that was committed to “saving future generations from the scourge of war”.
On their last working day, Wallace K. Harrison, an American who served as chief architect, said: “The world hopes for a symbol of peace; we have given them a workshop for peace”.
A Workshop for Peace documents how the 11-member international design team, each with a different background and prominent in his own right, rose to the challenge of overcoming their disagreements to design and eventually build a new symbol of peace and reconciliation.
It will be broadcast in the United States on local PBS stations, first on Sunday, 23 October, on WLIW (Channel 21) at 9 p.m. EST, and on Monday, 24 October -- United Nations Day -- on WNET (Channel 13) at 10 p.m. EST. It will also be offered by satellite to all PBS stations nationwide.
For more information on A Workshop for Peace, or other UN video productions, please contact Caroline Petit, Promotion and Distribution Manager, at tel.: +1 212 963 6982 or at e-mail: petitc@un.org.
* *** *
For information media • not an official record