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Posted by: Laura Jenemann
As DC's own Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts concludes yet another landmark year, the Library's own Laura Jenemann traces how some of the LC's own moving image and audio holdings trace the creation and evolution of this great instititution.
Posted in: Moving Image Research Center, NBC Television Collection
Posted by: Matthew Barton
Every year, for nearly two months, radio stations fill the air with great Christmas music from what seems to be a bottomless well of recordings. It’s an eclectic mix that draws on songs from the 1930s to the present, but the sounds of Christmas on the radio once went far beyond this. In the 1930s …
Posted in: Christmas, NBC Television Collection, Radio, Recorded Sound Research Center, World War II
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 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: Karen Fishman
This guest post is by Dorinda Hartmann, viewing technician in the Moving Image Research Center. In 2019, we have nearly immediate access to many of the activities of Earth’s astronauts, from NASA’s live-stream of the Earth from space to interviews with the crew of the International Space Station from orbit, widely available at any time. …
Posted in: NBC Television Collection, Television