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.
Brief recollections of a broadcasting executive, primarily concerning sports broadcasting by WRAW, Reading, PA in 1929 by means of Western Union wire reports.
Contains about 100 items dealing with radio plays, including correspondence, copyright notices, playscripts and other materials, chiefly from the 1930s and 1940s. Some of the radio plays were written by Holman while others were edited by him. Many of the plays were used in the Forum of the Air series which aired in the late 1930s.
Repository/Collector:
Southern Historical Collection, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Contains correspondence and manuscripts, including drafts, typescripts, notes, photographs, mimeographed scripts and printed materials relating to Hall's plays, radio and television scripts, short stories and novels.
Repository/Collector:
Rare Book and Manuscript Collections, Butler Library
Contains sound recordings, beginning in 1989, from a Hollywood repertory company that performs plays and theater pieces written or adapted for radio, including some productions written and directed by Norman Corwin.
Repository/Collector:
American Radio Archives, Thousand Oaks Library Foundation
The Samuel C. O. Holt papers include materials from 1951 through 1995. The bulk of the collection dates from 1967 to 1983 and relates to Holt's work as project director of the Public Radio Study from 1967 to 1969, as PBS's Coordinator of Programming from 1970 to 1973 and as NPR's Senior Vice President for Programming from 1977 to 1983. Additionally, there is a significant amount of material from Holt's consulting activities. Most of the collection consists of reports and proposals concerning public broadcasting programming, funding, and research. Also present are intermittent chronological files of business correspondence, memoranda, minutes, maps, and video and audio cassette tapes.
Repository/Collector:
Special Collections in Mass Media & Culture, University of Maryland
Includes material for a Caddie Woodlawn memorial program broadcast in February, 1940 on the Idaho State University radio station dealing with the adventures of growing up on the Wisconsin frontier in the 1860s.
Repository/Collector:
Children's Literature Research Collection, University of Minnesota
One of the original commissioners of the Federal Radio Commission, the papers include scripts for Caldwell's weekly program Radio Magic, 1939-1942, and other broadcasts.