Mosteller lectures - available online?

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The current Wikipedia article on statistician Charles Frederick Mosteller mentions he gave a series of televised lectures. Are these available anywhere online?

Mosteller taught a class in probability and statistics as part of the educational television program, Continental Classroom - Mathematics, in 1960-61, supported by the Ford Foundation and broadcast on NBC: 75,000 students took this class for credit at 320 colleges and universities around the country, and 1.2 million watched the lectures on television on 170 stations.[5] The show received its impressively large audience despite being broadcast at 6:30 am. Monday, Wednesday, and Friday covered the statistical material, and Tuesday and Thursday were problem sessions.

quoted from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frederick_Mosteller
 
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I found this general reference with further references that you could follow up on:

https://www.wikiwand.com/en/Continental_Classroom

and this book for the series:

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B003LCPKR2/?tag=pfamazon01-20

Some universities such as Columbia Univ have collections of recordings that may be accessible online.

and lastly a Mosteller bio:

https://campbellcollaboration.org/images/pdf/plain-language/mosteller-frederick.pdf

Lastly, you might contact Butler Library to gain any leads:

https://library.columbia.edu/libraries/butler/media-services/collections/aboutmedia.html
 
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