Includes radio scripts, outlines and other notes for Moritz's weekly Christian program, Good News Broadcast, which was broadcast over KMHL, Marshall, MN during the 1950s plus information on other radio broadcasting, 1949-1956.
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.
Contains documents relating to Novik's career in public broadcasting, including correspondence, reports, hearings, clippings, conference materials, press releases and other papers. Novik was associated with WNYC, New York, and was executive secretary of the National Association of Educational Broadcasters. Papers also include correspondence with the FCC and the Institute for Education by Radio-Television.
Repository/Collector:
National Public Broadcasting Archives, University of Maryland
Contains mostly correspondence but also includes drafts of scripts, contracts, clippings and a few photographs, including material related to The Eternal Light.
Contains radio and television scripts, 1940s-1950s, some published, some typescript versions written by Wishengrad for The Eternal Light. Also includes a few scripts for Have Seen the Light, WQXR, 1947, Birthday of the World, 1950s, for ABC, and the NBC Inter-American University of the Air, 1944.
Includes correspondence and other files of WEED, Rocky Mount, NC and scattered files of WBAR, Bartow, FL, both of which were owned by William Avera Wynne. The WEED files include program logs, channel surveys and communications with the FCC and both the NBC and ABC radio network offices.
Repository/Collector:
Southern Historical Collection, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Consists primarily of correspondence and legal papers relating to the financial affairs of Orson Welles and the Mercury Theatre as handled by Welles's personal attorney, L. Arnold Weissberger. Includes copies of contracts and agreements between Welles and Columbia Artists as his representative, between Welles and RKO, other legal documents relating to Mercury Theatre insurance policies for both Orson and Virginia Welles and photographs, mostly of theatre productions and performers.
Consists of the correspondence, papers and memorabilia relating to the career of Orson Welles. Includes 142 bound scripts and more than 140 sound recordings for most of the programs and series in which Welles appeared after 1937, including Mercury Theatre on the Air, Campbell Playhouse, Orson Welles Almanac (Lady Esther), Ceiling Unlimited, Hello Americans, This Is My Best and Mercury Summer Theatre. See detailed online finding aid at www.indiana.edu/~liblilly/lilly/mss/html/welles.html. See also Weissberger Mss. Collection for additional Welles radio related material and additional Welles collection covering his film career.
Consists of correspondence, writings and memorabilia of William Anthony Parker White, critic, editor and writer most widely known by the pseudonym Anthony Boucher. Includes scripts and extensive files for the series Adventures of Ellery Queen, The Casebook of Gregory Hood and Sherlock Holmes, all dating from the mid-1940s.
Consists mostly of scripts for NBC affiliated, Chicago based programs collected by William Wokoun. Includes The Guiding Light, Captain Midnight, Lone Journey, Ma Perkins, Masquerade, The Road of Life, Today's Children, Vic and Sade and Woman in White. Also includes emcee scripts for music and variety shows and commercial scripts for various products and companies. See online finding aid for complete list.
Includes a few radio plays by Dorothy Markey, a writer, union activist and communist who wrote under the name Myra Page in the 1930s-1950s. The radio plays are included in the "Short Writings" folder and are identified by name.
Repository/Collector:
Southern Historical Collection, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Contains virtually complete documentation of her professional writing career, including radio plays, 1922-1947, and a transcript of a radio talk, 1947. See online finding aid for details.
Repository/Collector:
Harry Ransom Center, The University of Texas at Austin
This collection includes print materials related to the development and organization of NPR, as well as the program archive consisting of over 100,000 audio tapes beginning with the first broadcast in 1971.
Repository/Collector:
Special Collections in Mass Media & Culture, University of Maryland
WRUC - Union College; Producer: Radio Division, Department of Theater Arts, University of California at Los Angeles and Audio-Visual Aids Section of the Los Angeles City Schools
Near complete collection of recordings of NBC Symphony Orchestra broadcasts plus some recordings of radio programs of Toscanini conducting the New York Philharmonic.
Contains approximately 150,000 discs from the early 1930s to the late 1960s, including comedy, drama, public affairs, musical variety, sports, news, information and international shortwave broadcasts. Everything recorded through 1953, plus a selection of programs after 1953, has been preserved and is cataloged on SONIC. Also check the publication "Radio Broadcasts in the Library of Congress, 1924-1941," (LOC, 1982).
Contains materials relating to the General Motors's show, The Parade of the States: A Tribute to Nebraska, broadcast on April 25, 1932 over the NBC network.
Martin Bookspan interviews American composer and pianist Netty Simons. Simons talks about her studies at New York University with Percy Grainger, and later privately with Stefan Wolpe. She speaks about both of her teachers, and compares their personalities and their influences on her works. She discusses avant-garde music, and her career as a composer. The composer also talks about each of the following works, excerpts of which are then played during the interview: Trialogue no. 1: the tombstone told when she died and Trialogue no. 2: myselves grieve (for mezzo-soprano, baritone and viola; text by Dylan Thomas), Silver thaw (for 1 to 8 players) (1969), Five sprays of the snow fountain (for two pianos) (1970); and reads fragments from two poems by D. Thomas.
Content types:
Sounds
Extent:
1 recording
Repository/Collector:
New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center
Contains tape recordings, slides, newspaper clippings, correspondence and financial records relating to Rasins's Latvian American broadcasting and other Latvian American community activities in Colorado Springs, CO and the Twin Cities, MN.
Repository/Collector:
Immigration History Research Center, University of Minnesota
Consists mainly of scripts along with budgets, treatments, correspondence, research materials, contracts, outlines and synopses for many of the radio, television and motion pictures written or produced by Niss, plus professional correspondence, two scrapbooks, 94 phonograph records, an audio tape for Twenty-first Precinct, 1954-1955, one phonograph record for Gang Busters, 1954, material related to Charlie Wild, Private Detective and other television and film related material.
Contains writings about Peale in articles, clippings and publications, along with writings by Peale, including articles, booklets, radio addresses, 1936-1945, a handbook and sermons.
Scripts for a series of broadcasts over KWSC. Written by Milo Wesley Goss, the scripts include biographies of John Akins, Lulu Downen, George Draper, Clifford Drury, Garret Kincaid and May Squires.
Repository/Collector:
Manuscripts, Archives, and Special Collections, Washington State University
WGLT is licensed to Illinois State University and is affiliated with NPR. It was originally a student operated radio station, signing on the air on April 24th, 1962 as a closed circuit radio station. A few years later, on February 4, 1966, the station received FCC licensing and began FM boradcasting. The station became a full NPR member in the 1970's. Both the audio and paper records are unprocessed. In the past year, the university archivist and the station’s general manager (along with a School of Communication professor) started the process to inventory all the audio and paper records.
Content types:
Performed music, Sounds, Spoken word, and Text
Formats:
Open reel tape (unknown material), VHS (including SVHS and VHS-C), and 8-track cassette
A phonograph record and transcript of the May 28, 1952 student raid on WVBR and the broadcasting of music and a false news report concerning Russian bombings of London and Marseilles.
Transcripts, on microform, of the Radio Pioneers Oral History Project from Columbia University. (See full listing under Columbia University Collections.)
Radio and television scripts written by Frank Siedel. See related Anson F. Hardman collection on the development and production of the program. Sound recordings and films of the program are located in the Audio-Visual collection. The program was broadcast on WTAM.
Broadcasting to the world the latest information from the oil fields of Texas, Arkansas and the Great Southwest, March 26, 1923. Note: This may be a transcript of a broadcast.
Repository/Collector:
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University
Contains personal and professional papers, including materials and photographs relating to the comedy team of Olsen and Johnson and their shows. Materials range from their vaudeville days beginning in the 1920s through their success on Broadway and radio in the 1930s and 1940s to their later years performing in smaller venues in the 1950s. Includes radio scripts from 1930s and 1950s.
Repository/Collector:
Manuscripts and Visual Collections Department, William Henry Smith Memorial Library
A very small collection containing some papers, scripts and recordings. The only radio related item is a recording of the "War of the Worlds," Mercury Theatre of the Air program.
Includes course information, papers, correspondence and research projects relating to the Communications classes that Rich taught at BYU and an autobiography of his career in broadcast education involving KBYU.
Photocopies of papers selected from KPFA, Berkeley files by Vera S. Hopkins, a retired staff member, to document the founding, development and problems of listener sponsored radio, 1946-1984. Emphasis is on the early history of Pacifica and on KPFA.
Repository/Collector:
Bancroft Library, University of California at Berkeley
A dozen reels of NBC programs, 1927, 1929, that were "recorded" onto an experimental sound-on-film format that led to the development of the RCA Photophone system. The programs include Walter Damrosch conducting the GE Symphony Orchestra.
Contains music scores, manuscript scores, phonograph records, correspondence, music journals, photographs and guitar music manuals. Papas performed live on WCAP.