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Posted by: Karen Fishman
This post was written by Matt Barton, curator, Recorded Sound Section. Born in the early 1920s, Bob Elliot (1923-2016) and Ray Goulding (1922 – 1990), better known as “Bob and Ray,” never knew a world without radio, and reveled in the medium from early childhood. They became professional announcers while still in their teens, eventually …
Posted in: Comedy, NBC Radio Collection, Radio, Recorded Sound
Posted by: Cary O’Dell
“Grease” is the word! As is “Shrek,” “Outrage,” “The Dark Knight,” “The Hurt Locker,” and “The Blues Brothers.” The Library of Congress, today, added 25 new titles to its National Film Registry. Learn more here: https://www.loc.gov/programs/national-film-preservation-board/film-registry/
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Posted by: Karen Fishman
This blog post was written by Matt Barton, curator of the Recorded Sound Section. On September 18, 2009, The Guiding Light ended a television run that began June 30, 1952, and a broadcast history that began on radio on January 25, 1937. The show’s run covered 72 Thanksgivings in all, but as we’ll see, the …
Posted in: Daytime Serials, NBC Radio Collection, NBC Television Collection, Radio, Recorded Sound Research Center, Television
Posted by: Karen Fishman
This blog post was written by Matt Barton, curator of the Recorded Sound Section. Rex Stout (1886-1975) remains well known as the creator of Nero Wolfe, the blunt, erudite and mostly housebound detective with a passion for orchids and fine food. Stout wrote thirty-three novels and forty-one novellas from 1934 to 1975 detailing the exploits …
Posted in: NBC Radio Collection, Radio, Recorded Sound
Posted by: Karen Fishman
This blog post was written by Andrea Leigh, head of the Moving Image Processing Unit. As popular game show host Bob Barker once quipped, “We play games at home, we play games at parties, we go to clubs and play games. Americans love games.” Americans began listening to game shows on the radio and that excitement …
Posted in: Moving Image Research Center, National Audio-Visual Conservation Center, NBC Television Collection, Television
Posted by: Matthew Barton
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.’s “I Have a Dream” speech has been seen and heard countless times since he gave it on August 28, 1963 at the climax of the March on Washington, and a review of the radio coverage of it, including the prelude and aftermath can bring us closer to the whole experience of that day in its many parts, and maybe even to grasp the feelings of the marchers themselves.
Posted in: Civil Rights, National Audio-Visual Conservation Center, Radio, Recorded Sound, Recorded Sound Research Center
Posted by: Karen Fishman
This blog post was written by Rachel Del Gaudio, a Moving Image Processing Technician at the Library’s Packard Campus. A typical day for me each year in early June is full of stress and frantic correspondence as the final details for the Library’s annual Mostly Lost Film Identification Workshop are organized. However, these are not …
Posted in: Film/Video, National Audio-Visual Conservation Center, Orphan Film Symposium
Posted by: Karen Fishman
This blog post was written by David Sager, research assistant at the Recorded Sound Research Center. John Philip Sousa (1854-1932), the American composer and bandleader, who was known as “The March King,” was a profoundly talented and accomplished man. His musical compositions went beyond marches and included operettas, waltzes, and songs. He also wrote several …
Posted in: Early Recording Industry, Jukebox, Recorded Sound, Recorded Sound Research Center
Posted by: Karen Fishman
This blog post was written by Matt Barton, curator of the Recorded Sound Section. When The Mystery Chef and his eponymous radio program first appeared on NBC’s Boston affiliate WBZ in May of 1930, they were an almost immediate hit, and were soon being heard nationally over the network. The Great Depression was hitting hard …
Posted in: NBC Radio Collection, Radio, Recorded Sound