Program

Public Programs: Humanities Projects in Media

Period of Performance

9/1/1977 - 4/30/1979

Funding Totals (outright + matching)

$1,297,569.00 (approved)
$1,297,569.00 (awarded)


The Scarlet Letter Television Project

FAIN: GN-*1041-77

WGBH Educational Foundation (Boston, MA 02135-2016)
Henry P. Becton (Project Director: May 1977 to October 1990)

To produce a six-episode serial dramatization of Nathaniel Hawthorne's THE SCARLET LETTER to enable American television viewers and students to approach acentral work in the American literary tradition.