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A dramatization of Gustave Flaubert's short story about a servant girl of peasant background, named Felicite, who works as a maid dedicating her life to her sick, thoughtless, widowed mistress.

Devoted to the poetry of A.E. Housman. Three actors including Geoffrey Horne read some poems from Housman's volume "A Shropshire Lad".

American songs that were inspired by natural events that became important news stories, such as the dust bowl drought, are performed.

The 19th century New England poetess reads selections from her lyrics.

A dramatization of Austrian writer and poet Peter Altenberg's "Evocations of Love" as translated by Alexander King, with actor Ludwig Donath portraying a man in a Vienna coffeehouse reflecting on the life and people around him.

Composer-lyricist Harold Rome discusses the genesis of his musical review "Pins and Needles" and its current revival.

Truman Cabot's story, set to music by Claibe Richardson.

John Strauss composed the score and the libretto was written by Sheppard Kerman for "The Accused", written for Camera Three; it is a one-woman opera based on the Salem witch trials.

Examining the golden years 1934 to 1964 of the Warner Bothers film cartoon department, which created cartoon characters known all over the world.

A dramatization of a short story written by Katherine Anne Porter about a woman of character who is the gossipy, dream-ridden wife of an elderly man.

Blitzstein's tale of greed and corruption in "Steeltown, U.S.A." centers on an attempt to organize a union. Semi-operatic, it is sung throughout. The first production, during the Great Depression, was produced by John Houseman and directed by Orson Welles. The United States Government demanded that the show be canceled. The resulting crisis and the triumph of the artists is dramatized in Tim Robbins' film "Cradle Will Rock".

Canadian actor John Drainie stars in a one-man show based on the short story by Feodor Dostoevsky about a dream which helps a suicidal man renew his faith in life and helping mankind.

A dramatization of the outlook and views of 18th-century author Alexander Pope. Pope's poems, letters and biographical material by Samuel Johnson are utilized in play form.

A jazz ballet interpretation choreographed by Anna Sokolow of L'Histoire du Soldat.

A live dramatized excerpt from a novel by Sarah Orne Jewett, 19th century New England writer. A Maine woman, Abby Martin, finds that she bears a strong resemblance to Queen Victoria.

Scenes from the 17th century playwright Ben Jonson's "The Alchemist" currently running off-Broadway, are performed by the cast on Camera Three.

British actress Claire Bloom is heard in a reading of poems and songs of her choosing ranging from Sir Philip Sidney and Lord Byron to T.S. Eliot, Marianne Moore and Ezra Pound.

The story is adapted from late Danish author Isak Dinesen's, "Seven Gothic Tales". Trapped during a storm, the guests at an exclusive resort tell each other their problems while awaiting rescue - or death.

The problems of getting properly married in the aristocratic world of 19th Century England is the focus of dramatic excerpts from Jane Austen's novel "Emma".

Based on the 1930 classic by Faulkner, it is the story of the death of Addie Bundren and her family's quest to honor her wish to be buried in the nearby town of Jefferson.

A take up of the German cabaret before the Nazi came to power. Political, social and economic foibles found expression via comedy, satire, song and story, in blues and ballad stuff.

CBS Camera Three presented a strong sample of the work of musicologists Guy and Candie Carawan who had spent a number of years living on Johns Island (fifth largest island on the east coast). Their intent was to document and record the stories, songs, and traditional culture of the rural Island population. The Island's elders held in memory knowledge passed through oral tradition from slavery times, and from Africa. The largely agricultural Island's isolation had been changing with the construction of a bridge to the Island, radio, television, and real estate development. The Carawans recorded hundreds of hours of audio, and enlisted Robert Yellin, a documentary photographer and fellow musician, who produced a strong and ethereal photographic record of the Island, and the lives of the keepers of the culture. Yellin met many of those who had contributed to the Carawan archive. He created black and white images, which appeared with the transcripts of oral history, folk tales, and traditional music, in the book "Ain't You Got a Right to the Tree of Life?: The People of Johns Island, South Carolina--Their Faces, Their Words, and Their Songs (Hardcover)", by Guy and Candie Carawan, photographs by Robert Yellin, with forward by Charles Joyner, afterward by Bernice Johnson Reagan (currently revised, 264 pp, published by University of Georgia Press). Camera Three broadcast some of the audio and some of the still photographs as well as commentary putting the history and culture of the Carolina low country into perspective for viewers of CBS in the United States in 1965. The program was a window into a world of strong self-sufficient communities existing in a centuries-old tradition outside the popular conception of mainstream American culture and, as the New York Times put it, "[with courage] preparing to meet the future."