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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 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: Cary O’Dell
The following is a guest post by Jenny Paxson of the Packard Campus. Thursday, January 9 (7:30 p.m.) Crime and Punishment (Columbia, 1935) Hungarian actor Peter Lorre, who became internationally known for playing a serial killer in Fritz Lang’s German thriller M (1931), left Europe when Adolf Hitler came to power. In only his second …
Posted in: Motion Pictures, National Audio-Visual Conservation Center, Packard Campus Theater, Television