Behind the Scenes of Mister Rogers' Neighborhood Fred Rogers (1967) NET Presents The Creative Person

Fred Rogers was a television phenomenon known for his long-running PBS children's show, "Mister Rogers' Neighborhood" for the latter part of the 20th century, ending production in 2001.
Fred Rogers died in 2003 at the age of 74 years.
In the late 1960s, before the formation of PBS, there was NET - National Educational Television - and this rare interview and behind-the-scenes documentary of Fred Rogers brings a very fascinating look at the earliest productions at WQED Pittsburgh, where Fred's show would be produced.
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SPECIAL NOTE TO LOGO FANS: There's a NET logo and Eric Siday synthesizer theme at the end of this show.
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From the Description of the Episode:
Series: NET Presents "The Creative Person"
Subject: Fred Rogers
In this 1967 film from the Library of Congress, Fred was a 39-year-old ordained minister, an educator, a musician, and a quiet, gentle, unselfconscious young man who possessed a mysterious and quite remarkable attraction for pre-school children.
When his daily half-hour program, "Mister Rogers' Neighborhood," was threatened with cancellation for lack of funds last spring in Boston, station WGBH-TV was deluged with protests. When Rogers himself made a personal appearance there, 6,000 pint-sized fans turned out to see him.
Since then, Rogers' program (a composite of songs, conversation, puppet neighbors, and people neighbors, palatable lessons and ideas) has attracted a Sears-Roebuck Foundation grant and will be a regular five-day-a-week children's feature on NET stations across the country this season. This Creative Person film shows the man behind "Mister Rogers'," the television personality. Rogers is visited at his home, is seen at the studio rehearsing his television program and observed working with study groups. He talks about his feelings towards his own two children and explains his intense desire to find a means of communicating with children honestly on their own terms.
Creative Person: Fred Rogers was produced for National Educational Television by its Pittsburgh affiliate, WQED-TV. (Description adapted from documents in the NET Microfiche)
Series Description: This series focuses on the private vision of the creative person. Each program is devoted to a 20th century artist whose special qualities of imagination, taste, originality, intelligence, craftsmanship, and individuality have marked him as a pace-setter in his field. These artists -- whose fields span the entire gamut of the art world -- include filmmaker Jean Renoir, poet John Ciardi, industrial designer Raymond Loewy, Hollywood producer-director King Vidor, noted Broadway couple Ossie Davis and Ruby Dee, artist Leonard Baskin, humorist James Thurber, satirist Robert Osborn, Indian musician Ravi Shankar, poet P. G. Wodehouse, painter Georges Braque, former ballet star Olga Spessivtzeva, Rudolf Bing, and Marni Nixon. The format for each program has been geared to the individual featured; Performance, interview, and documentary techniques are employed interchangeably. The Creative Person is a 1965 production of National Educational Television. The N.E.T. producers are Jack Sameth, Jac Venza, Lane Slate, Thomas Slevin, Brice Howard, Craig Gilbert, and Jim Perrin. (Description adapted from documents in the NET Microfiche)
Broadcast Date1967-10-08
FOR HISTORICAL AND EDUCATIONAL USE ONLY.

[@kennethnero2011]

I miss Fred Rogers so much… he was a genuine, Caring, Respectful person and his show really taught and you could feel it! RIP Mister Rogers

[@AngieRIamHIS4Life]

Mr. Rogers is now in Heaven, entertaining and teaching the children in Heaven, who might have missed him when he was on earth. He's there now. We'll see him again one day..

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29:05 debut of the net house logo from 1967-1970?

[@WintersWar]

He was a wise man.

[@ShawnChang6453]

That time when Steve Rogers dropped his shield and stars to take up the alter ego of Fred Rogers and lived his remaining life educating children.