A Wisconsin broadcasting executive, the 1958-1969 portion of the collection includes correspondence and subject files relating to Bartell's personal business ventures in the field of radio and TV. Includes some unidentified sound recordings, possibly of Bartell's radio scripts, n.d.
Includes scripts for the Morning Cheer, Bear and Magic Number programs sponsored by the Gillette Rubber Company and broadcast over WTAQ, Eau Claire, WI. Scripts include advertising for the Gillette Rubber Company, jokes, humorous sketches, and stories. Also includes a folder containing historical information about WTAQ.
Fragmentary papers of radio and television news broadcaster Gunnar Back, including biographical clippings, scripts and other writings, publicity, photographs, sound and video recordings and correspondence. Because of the fragmentary nature of the papers, the value of the collection lies primarily in the events Back covered rather than its biographical information. Includes news and entertainment scripts Back wrote for KFAB/KFOR, Lincoln, NE, WJSV, Washington, DC and for Whatever Happened To, broadcast on WTOP. Also includes recorded transcripts of Crossfire, the ABC news interview program, transcripts of Congress Today, America's Town Meeting of the Air and Americans At Work and recordings of The Lonesome Road, a radio documentary about alcoholism as well as raw tape interviews apparently used in editing the broadcast. Also includes transcripts for a Lonesome Road program dealing with venereal disease. Photographs are primarily snapshots of Back broadcasting; most are unidentified, but there are snapshots of him with some people prominent in politics and entertainment and also of Back at WJNO, FL. Also includes material related to the Officers Conference, an interview program about world affairs that was aired by the military broadcast network (AFRS?) in the 1950s.
Papers of the "Dean of American Radio Commentators" who introduced editorial analysis to radio news broadcasting. The bulk of the collection is made up of correspondence, scripts and recordings but there are also business and professional papers, book and article manuscripts, notes and scrapbooks. Radio scripts comprise a virtually complete record of his prepared broadcasts for Kaltenborn Edits the News and for a number of other series and specials. Supplementing the papers are more than 500 sound recordings of his regularly scheduled news broadcasts, chiefly 1940-1948, and other programs in which he was a participant. Correspondence includes Kaltenborn's involvement with the Association of Radio Television News Analysts, the Broadcast Pioneers, the Overseas Press Club, the Radio-Television Committee of the American Civil Liberties Union and the Kaltenborn Foundation.
Papers of a writer, producer and director of numerous television comedies. Catalog listing notes that the collection includes "scripts for radio programs" but only identifies the Beulah Show. Other papers may only deal with television. Check with repository for more information.
Papers of an educational broadcaster associated with WHA and WHATV, Madison, WI, 1931-1968. Engel was an assistant director in charge of legislative and public relations. The collection deals exclusively with educational broadcasting and contains articles, clippings, surveys and reports. Most documentation concerns the development of WHA, particularly its early history. The balance deals with Engel's other activities in educational broadcasting with the Wisconsin Broadcasters Association, the National Association of FM Broadcasters, the University of Wisconsin Radio and Television Committee and other Wisconsin educational stations.
Papers of a man who began his career with WHA in 1929 and was appointed the station's program director in 1931. McCarty originated the Wisconsin School of the Air program. For 36 years he was director of the Wisconsin State Broadcasting System and executive director of the Wisconsin Radio and Televisino Council. Papers include correspondence, reports, newspaper clippings, magazine articles, budget material, scripts, listener letters, newsletters, organizational material for WHA-TV, State Radio Council meetings, minutes and reports, National Association for Educational Broadcasters newsletters and reports, program schedules for various educational stations and personnel files. Note: Additional collections include material relating to WHA.
Papers, primarily comprised of musical scores and parts, of a composer, arranger and conductor for radio and television and vice-president in charge of music for ABC. Also includes non radio sound recordings.
Papers of a foreign correspondent, news analyst, author and AFL-CIO radio coordinator consisting chiefly of books, articles, World War II communiques, plays, scripts for films and radio programs, speeches and over 700 tapes. Radio programs represented in the collection include John Vandercook and the News, Labor Answers Your Questions, Labor Reports to the Nation, Washington Reports to the Nation and As We See It. Also includes extensive script files for programs broadcast by the CBS West Coast Network and KMOX, St. Louis. Papers involving listener mail from the late 1940s are noteworthy for their concern with alleged communist influence in California.
A newspaper, radio and television journalist, Cassidy spent most of his career as a foreign correspondent and executive for the Associated Press, NBC and Radio Free Europe. His radio scripts form the bulk of the collection and include scripts written in Paris, 1945-1950, for Report on Europe and those written in the United States, 1953-1955, for Heart of the News, News of the World, World News Roundup and other programs.
Papers of a writer, newspaperman and Washington news commentator for NBC and ABC. Contains scripts, journals, speeches and recordings. Scripts and discs relate almost exclusively to Baukhage's regularly scheduled ABC program Baukhage Talking. Among the news events covered in the scripts are World War II, the 1944 political conventions, President Roosevelt's death, Truman's inauguration, the Nuremberg trials, the Cold War and the Berlin crisis.
Papers consist of material on Smith's career with both the ABC and CBS networks. CBS radio scripts pertain to his work as a World War II correspondent and to his postwar commentaries.
Collection documents the entire span of Rodman's career from his early days as a writer of short stories to a script writer for the broadcast media and a creator of television series. Best coverage of his broadcasting work is provided by files on United Nations Radio. Includes some unidentified tape recordings.
Papers of a playwright, writer and educator, primarily comprised of scripts for radio and plays. Radio materials include Cavalcade of America, Treasury Hour, Ford Theater, Theatre U.S.A. and soap operas such as Road of Life and Valiant Lady.
Dubbed tape recordings of four Fibber McGee and Molly shows, 1939, including segments with guest ZaSu Pitts and Harold Peary and of 24 Vic and Sade programs, November, 1943 and September, 1944.
Papers of a creator and writer of radio and television soap operas. Includes scripts by Phillips herself and by Radio Scripts, Inc., to which she was a consultant, including outlines, advertising copy and correspondence with listeners, viewers, networks and advertising agencies. Includes Another World, Brighter Day, The Guiding Light, Right to Happiness, Road of Life, Today's Children, Woman in White and many other daytime serials.
Sound recording of an interview conducted in April, 1980 by Dale Treleven of the Historical Society with Isabel Baumann, a Dane County, WI farm organization activist. Includes a discussion of Baumann's work with the series, We Say What We Think Club.
Papers of the author of the radio serial The Story of Mary Marlin. Includes a complete run of scripts of the original show, 1934-1945, of an Australian version, 1959-1960, character sketches, show music, outlines, publicity, commercials, reference material, scenarios, story summaries and synopses. Also includes personal and business papers and correspondence with substitute authors, advertising agencies, networks, lawyers and Procter and Gamble, the show's sponsor.
The collection is best for the years 1956-1967 and includes a wide variety of materials pertaining to his association with ABC as a newsman and vice-president of news, special events and public affairs, 1953-1967. Fragmentary early material includes a scrapbook on events covered by Daly as White House correspondent for WJSV, Washington, DC, 1938-1939, correspondence and scripts for CBS Is There (later known as You Are There), The Front Page, his coverage of the Italian theater during World War II and "The Sangamon," an Edgar Lee Masters radio play. There are no scripts dating from the later period covered but there are office memos, fan mail and publicity for Daly's television programs. Additional files pertain to ABC news administration and operation, outside speaking engagements, involvement with professional groups such as the National Association of Radio and Television Broadcasters and coverage of political conventions. Collection includes three disc recordings and 53 photographs.
Recordings of a broadcaster and editor consisting mainly of Books and Voices, a radio series moderated for Westinghouse Broadcasting Co., 1956-1957, and Progress, a series of public service interviews prepared for General Electric, 1961-1962.
Papers of a radio and television news broadcaster noted for his coverage of World War II and the United Nations. The bulk of the collection consists of scripts written for NBC, ABC, NET, CBC and the Voice of America plus speeches and writings. The scripts chiefly concern the North African theater during World War II and the development of the United Nations, 1950-1977, and were written for such programs as ABC Evening News, Issues and Answers, News Around the World, United or Not? and Army Hour. Written material is supplemented by films and recordings. There are also some letters relating to MacVane's presidency of the Association of Radio and Television News Analysts and the United Nations Correspondents Association.
Correspondence collected by Penn, a broadcast historian, concerning the early history of WHA, the radio station of the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and the work of physicist Earl M. Terry. Also includes an address by Terry, ca. 1925, a WHA program log, 1922-1925, and a history of the station by Harold A. Engel.
Audio recording of interviews conducted by Wingate, October 8-11, 1957, on Night Beat on WABD with Arthur V. Crowley, J. Bracken Lee, Victor Riesel, Buff Donelli, Robert Elliot Fitch, Stuart Davis, John D. Odom and Helen Sobell dealing chiefly with labor and politics.
Papers document the personal and professional activities of two radio and television personalities. Johnny Olson worked as an announcer at WTMJ, Milwaukee, 1933-1944, and WJZ, New York, 1944, before going on to emcee, with Penny as hostess, a number of radio shows, including Ladies Be Seated and Rumpus Room. Papers include scripts, correspondence, gag material and audience letters and response cards relating to Olson's radio career. The collection also includes unprocessed sound recordings of Olson's early radio program The Price ls Right.
Includes radio and television scripts, 1940s-1970, aired on NBC, CBS and BBC, including Background, Meaning of the News and Report from Washington. Also includes correspondence. Material reflects Harsch's varying assignments from coverage of the Harlan trial in Kentucky to the London Naval Conference, Germany and the Pacific theater during World War II and post-war foreign affairs responsibilities in London and Washington, D.C.
Papers of an experimental and developmental psychologist best known for his NBC program Keeping Mentally Fit and newspaper columns on psychology for the lay person.
Transcript of an interview with a public affairs director for WMAQ, the NBC owned station in Chicago. Topics discussed include the history of the station during its ownership by the "Chicago Daily News," CBS and NBC plus instructional and public service programming such as the University of Chicago Roundtable. Also covers other programs originating in Chicago such as Amos 'n' Andy.
Papers of a playwright, screenwriter and editor consisting chiefly of synopses, treatments, scenarios and scripts for Nicholson's work in theater, motion pictures and radio. Includes scripts for Cavalcade of America which Nicholson produced and Theatre Guild on the Air, a.k.a. United States Steel Hour.
The Radio files date from the late 1940s and include scripts and correspondence regarding plays and radio broadcasts on which Douglas appeared, including Prudential Family Hour of Stars, Escape and Suspense. Also includes radio adaptations of two of Douglas's films, "The Strange Love of Martha Ivers" and "The Champion."
Papers of an RCA engineer consisting of a 1921 catalog of Westinghouse Electric and Manufacturing Co. equipment, a booklet issued on the first anniversary of KDKA, a lecture service pamphlet on radio by S. M. Kintner, a Westinghouse engineer and several speeches by Westinghouse executives and engineers, including one by H.P. Davis, "the father of radio broadcasting."
Transcription discs of "Austin," an episode of the radio series March of Minnesota apparently broadcast on WCCO, Minneapolis. Program was a dramatized history of Austin stressing the role of the meatpacking industry and includes studio interviews with four Austin residents followed by music by the Minnesota Symphony.
Collection consists of bound and unbound trade journals and clipping scrapbooks relating to the history and development of the radio and television broadcasting industry. Includes bound "Yearbooks of Broadcasting" magazine, 1961-1962 and 1964. Also includes papers relating to the daily radio column that Codel wrote for the Radio News Bureau and which appeared in a number of newspapers across the country.
Collection includes a wide variety of printed ephemera (e.g. pamphlets, bulletins, newsletters, publicity and promotional materials, programs, directories, reports, studies and related materials) separated from the manuscript collections covering different aspects of broadcasting. Includes recordings of Dr. Crane's Radio Talks, Volume I, 1948, a collection of broadcasts by Dr. Crane, a Northwestern University psychologist, on topics concerning applied psychology for the lay person.
Includes scripts and drafts for The Crime Cases of Warden Lawes, Big Town and Big Story on radio, scripts for some television programs and other papers.
A portion of the collection includes scripts and recordings of various radio plays and documentation pertaining to various commercial recordings in which Douglas was featured.
Radio files contain scripts for Green Valley, U.S.A., It's the Navy, The Long Way Home, Men, Machines, and Victory, On the Beam, First in the Air and various United Nations Radio and public service programs. Also contains sound recordings for several of the programs and some general correspondence concerning Lampell's wartime broadcasting for the Army Air Force.
Business records of Monona Broadcasting which operated the ABC affiliate WKOW, Madison, WI, 1945-1960. Papers document the corporation's organization and operation, as well as its liquidation and sale to Midcontinent Broadcasting Company in 1960.
Contains scripts and films collected by a radio and television executive who served as media consultant for the AFL and the AFL-CIO. Included are opening and closing radio continuities, 1950-1952, for Frank Edwards and the News which states organized labor's position on the Cold War, communist subversion, the elections of 1950 and 1952 and other issues.
The Radio files contain scripts from Hinken's early career in radio, including The Grouch Club and The Magnificent Montague as well as extensive scripts and production information for the Fred Allen Show for which Hinken was head writer for seven years and the Milton Berle Show with which he was associated, 1946-1949. Also includes a sound recording of the November 25, 1945 performance of the Berle show. Bulk of collection pertains to Hinken's work in television.
Although most NAB activities concern the establishment of broadcasting codes and support of the industry in matters relating to government regulation, the bulk of the collection pertains to the association's research function. Includes materials on studies and surveys by the Broadcast Measurement Bureau of radio audiences and the National Opinion Research Center on public attitudes toward radio in the 1940s.
Includes correspondence, reports, clippings, speeches of president William G. Harley, files of the Office of Research and Development and of National Educational Radio (a division of the NAEB), a newsletter and a small publication file. The largest part of the collection is a subject file which documents the NAEB's board of directors, committees, conventions, conferences, seminars and workshops. Includes photographs relating to two radio programs, World Neighbors and Report From Europe, and tape recordings.
The collection offers representative coverage of operations in advertising, public relations, research, sales, news and public affairs broadcasting from the 1930s through the 1950s. Includes correspondence, memoranda, reports, logs, scripts, promotional material, publications, scenic designs, photographs, a few production files and a library of scripts and recordings. Limited legal and financial records. The finding aid has been split into 15 smaller documents. To get all fifteen, search for "National Broadcasting Company" as a Collection Author. Most radio program information is in Part 4 for which there is a detailed online finding aid. At the very end of the finding aid, there is an index of correspondents and of scripts. The scripts are arranged by genre and include the program name, dates, and box and folder number in which they appear. One of the categories is "commemorative programs." Most, but not all, of the programs are represented by single scripts.
Listed as two separate collections, the first collection features Salute to Radio, a review of the highlights in radio broadcasting history, narrated by H.V. Kaltenborn, broadcast May 15, 1956, on NBC's Recollections at 30 series celebrating the network's 30th anniversary. The second collection, done for the same Series, includes H.V. Kaltenborn's 35th anniversary in radio, April 3, 1957, and other highlights of early radio programs and personalities such as Rudy Vallee, Clark and McCulla, Lum and Abner, Al Jolson, Frances Langford, Fred Allen and Portland Hoffa, Tom Cokely, Fanny Brice, Joe Penner, Ginger Rogers, Mickey Rooney, Bob Hope, Brenda and Cobina, Bob Burns and Judy Garland.
Includes CBS radio scripts of his coverage of World War II in Europe, post-war documentaries and transcripts from the CBS Rome news bureau, 1951-1953, and from The World Tonight, 1961-1965. Also includes other papers.