For release September 25, 1962
VISIBLE EFFECTS OF MEXICO’S “UNFINISHED REVOLUTION” TO BE SUBJECT OF EIGHTH DOCUMENTARY IN INTERTEL SERIES.
New York, September 25, 1962 — No longer revolting against economic feudalism and political dictatorship, Mexico is undergoing a rapid surge forward in every phase of national activity: economics, politics, agriculture, industry, education, health and housing. In the latest one-hour Intertel television documentary, Westinghouse Broadcasting Company and the National Educational Television and Radio Center examine this remarkable growth and term it “Unfinished Revolution.”
Intertel is a corporate non-profit organization founded last year to creatively implement the use of television as a medium to advance understanding of world problems. Its founding members are the Australian Broadcasting Commission; the Canadian Broadcasting Commission; Associated-Rediffusion, Ltd. of Great Britain, and representing the United States, WBC and NET.
“Unfinished Revolution” will first be seen in the United States beginning the week of October 8 on the five WBC television stations, on the 55 NET stations and on other outlets throughout the United States via syndication.
This eighth program in the Intertel series and the second to be co-produced by WBC and NET will reach about 42 million English-speaking people throughout the world and, in addition, will be seen in Central and South America, dubbed in Spanish and Portuguese.
Mexico, in the past 20 years, has taken a great step forward in dispelling the old economic and political patterns that frustrated her natural growth. With a stable government and a people eager to improve their lot, the nation has moved rapidly into the industrial, technical and scientific age of the second half of the 20th Century. A new agriculture and a new industry have emerged and with them a new working class, a new middle class and a new class of professionals, scientists, managers and technicians. Life has changed drastically at every level of Mexican society.