Audio recordings from 1976-1987 on 1/4 inch open reel. The collection consists of "Reflections on Georgia," produced for broadcast on WUGA on old farm ways, saints and spirits, etc. Also included is audio of "Folklore in Georgia" featuring performances of local folk musicians including Howard Finster and "Bicentennial Minutes" featuring information about Georgia and UGA.
Content types:
Sounds
Extent:
314 recordings
Repository/Collector:
Walter J. Brown Media Archives & Peabody Awards Collection
Primarily audio from 1943-1986. The collection consists of audio recordings and segments of various programs penned by Sloane, and recordings of some of his lectures, interviews, and phone conferences. Among the programs available are The Right to Live (1947, NBC) and Joy of Bach (1978). The only videocassette in the collection is a recording of part one of Kids Like These. Allan Sloane is a Peabody Award Winner.
Content types:
Sounds and Other
Extent:
135 recordings
Repository/Collector:
Walter J. Brown Media Archives & Peabody Awards Collection
Content dating from1950-1990 on 1/4 inch open reel, film, and videotape. The collection consists of hundreds of hours of Arnold Michaelis' audio, film, and video interviews with the world's leading political and cultural personalities. Martin Luther King, Jr., Adlai Stevenson, Dean Rusk, Ronald Reagan, Eleanor Roosevelt, and Indira Gandhi are just a few of the men and women interviewed by Michaelis in their own homes. Arnold Michaelis sought "to record for today and posterity, the flavor of the thinking and the essence of the ideas of the men and women whose lives will be studied by future generations." The bulk of the collection is made up of films, television programs, and radio programs that Michaelis produced, and elements used in those productions. The majority of the audiotapes in the collection consist of interviews, edited and unedited, with celebrities and political figures.
Content types:
Sounds and Other
Extent:
1500 recordings
Repository/Collector:
Walter J. Brown Media Archives & Peabody Awards Collection
Radio program from 1927-1987 on 1/4 inch open reel and audiocassette. The collection consists primarily of 1/4 inch open reel recordings containing over 3100 radio programs taped off-air. Programs include: That Was the Week That Was; Frontier Gentleman; G.I. Journal; The Cavalcade of America; Studio One; The Third Man, etc. All titles are listed in finding aid.
Content types:
Sounds
Extent:
3178 recordings
Repository/Collector:
Walter J. Brown Media Archives & Peabody Awards Collection
Radio recordings from 1929-1984 on 1/4 inch open reel tape. These are recordings of radio shows dating between 1929 and 1984. Series include: Arturo Toscanini conducting the NBC Symphony; Paul Whiteman Presents; Bell Telephone Hour; Desert In Las Vegas; NBC Bandstand; a BBC production called "Ragtime to Rock N Roll"; The Ben Bernie Show; Rudy Vallee Show with John Barrymore; Kraft Music Hall; Amos N' Andy; The George Burns and Gracie Allen Show; Jack Benny Show; Eddie Cantor Show; The Great Gildersleeve with Harold Peary; Suspense; The Lives of Harry Lime with Orson Welles; Fred Allen; Gene Autry's Melody Ranch; many miscellaneous recordings.
Content types:
Sounds
Extent:
300 recordings
Repository/Collector:
Walter J. Brown Media Archives & Peabody Awards Collection
Recordings entered for Peabody Awards consideration from 1940 to the present day. Programs come in all genres and are locally, regionally, nationally, and internationally produced.
Content types:
Sounds and Other
Formats:
Disc (Commercial, Homemade, Transcription), Reel-to-reel, Audiocassette, Digital tape (DAT, DCC), CD, Digital file (.WAV), and Digital file (.MP3)
Extent:
19000 recordings
Repository/Collector:
Walter J. Brown Media Archives & Peabody Awards Collection
1945-1995 The collection consists of 50 years of radio, television and film productions, papers, and photographs documenting the founding and growth of Protestant Radio and Television Center in Atlanta, Georgia.
Content types:
Sounds and Other
Extent:
4300 recordings
Repository/Collector:
Walter J. Brown Media Archives & Peabody Awards Collection