Body And Spirit: Visions Of Man (1974)

Developed under a grant from the College’s Staff and Program Development Fund, Visions of Man is one of a three-part television series called Body and Spirit: A Survival Course in the Humanities. Completed in 1977, the series was based on the essays of Dr. C.P. Lee (Jacksonville University) and Jerry Dodge (Director of the Cummer Art Museum). In 1981-2, the series was expanded under a National Endowment of the Arts program to provide video tapes and instructional guides to selected Florida community colleges and high schools.
This episode, which features footage shot around Jacksonville (including at the Cummer Museum and the Jacksonville Art Museum and Koger Gallery), examines the themes, activities, and states of mind give us pleasure. It focuses on man as the only animal who comments on his existence through art, and explores how we do so through the media of clay, metal, wood, painting, dance, music, and literature.
The episode closes with reading of Matthew Arnold’s poem “Dover Beach” by C.P. Lee.
Narrator: John Thomas (with assist by C.P. Lee)
Produced and directed by: Earl Farris
Adapted from a script by: C.P. Lee
Photography: John Staub, Douglas Wells
Music: Tom Cuny, Douglas Kerley
Editing: Douglas Wells
Dance by: Dulce Anaya
Editing Assistant: Karen Lattanzi
Sound Technician: Lantz Baum
Graphics: John Reich
Contributors: Jerry Piccard, John Boles, Kathleen Frozio, Bill Davis
Copyright Florida State College at Jacksonville 1974