A collection of scripts for radio and television series, 1945-1946, 1949, including the Abbott and Costello Show and one script for Birds Eye Open House.
Repository/Collector:
American Radio Archives, Thousand Oaks Library Foundation
Consists primarily of television scripts related to Bochner's acting career but also contains scripts for several radio programs, including CBS Radio Mystery Theater, Mutual Radio Theater: The Adventure Show, Mutual Radio Theater: The Love Show, Sears Radio Theater and Sears Radio Theater: The Adventure Show.
Repository/Collector:
Arts Library, Special Collections, University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA)
Consists of manuscripts, correspondence and ephemera by and related to Bradbury. Includes a radio script for the August 31, 1958 broadcast of Suspense titled, "The Whole Town's Sleeping."
Repository/Collector:
Department of Special Collections, University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA)
Consists of about 3,900 tapes, mostly of Bresee's program Golden Days of Radio as it was broadcast on the Armed Forces Radio and Television Service, 1967-1995, as well as source material for his program, including complete episodes of many radio series from the 1940s and 1950s. As of 2005, the collection is partially processed and papers are being added to the collection on an ongoing basis.
Repository/Collector:
American Radio Archives, Thousand Oaks Library Foundation
172 reel tapes of off-air recordings, made from 1951 to 1969, mostly broadcast recordings of performances by the NBC Symphony Orchestra, New York Philharmonic, Boston Symphony Orchestra, and Metropolitan Opera.
Transcript of Healey's broadcast on KPTK, Santa Monica, on the occasion of her resignation from the Communist Party, July 9, 1973. Healey broadcast on KPTK for 20 years. Duplicate transcript is available at UC/Berkeley.
Repository/Collector:
Department of Special Collections, University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA)
Consists of radio and television scripts, including radio scripts for April, 1950-April, 1956, #82-336 with some gaps, and television scripts for February, 1952-April, 1955, #1-100.
Repository/Collector:
Arts Library, Special Collections, University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA)
Consists of photographs and scrapbooks related to Faire's career and includes a 1977 interview transcript with Faire. The actress did some radio work in Chicago.
Repository/Collector:
Arts Library, Special Collections, University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA)
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
Includes thousands of radio broadcasts dating back to 1944. Programs featured prominent guests in national politics, science, sports and the humanities. Also includes papers and photographs relating to the Club.
Consists of materials related to Cantor's career, including radio and television scripts, sheet music, orchestrations, photographs, awards, tributes, correspondence, sound recordings and scrapbooks. Includes radio scripts for The Eddie Cantor Show, Show Business Old and New, Eddie Cantor Comedy Theatre and March of Dimes scripts.
Repository/Collector:
Department of Special Collections, University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA)
Contains scripts for radio and television series, 1930-1954, including Captain Post: Crime Specialist, 1930-1931, Chinatown Squad, 1932, Barbary Coast Nights, 1933, I Love a Mystery, 1943-1944, 1949-1952, Adventures by Morse, 1944-1945, His Honor the Barber, 1945-1946, I Love Adventure, 1948, Slice of Life, 1949, Mixed Doubles, 1949, One Man's Family, 1949, 1951-1952, and Family Skeleton, 1953-1954. Also contains some memorabilia on Morse's career (awards, clippings, etc.) and production documents related to particular series.
Repository/Collector:
American Radio Archives, Thousand Oaks Library Foundation
Contains transcription discs of radio shows for the Los Angeles Community Chest, 1940-1942, and script material for the series Heartbeats of the City and other radio programs. Also includes Campaign Radio Plays and transcripts of commercials, publicity material for the Joey Bishop Show, 1961-1964, and approximately 100 photographs.
Repository/Collector:
Arts Library, Special Collections, University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA)
Contains over 9,300 individual scripts, 1940-1960, from what was the radio script archive at KNX, Los Angeles, a CBS affiliate station. Included in the collection are long series runs of I Was There, 1940-1942, 1944-1945, Amos 'n' Andy, 1944-1951, Romance, 1944-1946, 1948-1951, The Story of Sandra Martin, 1944-1945, Suspense, 1945-1959, The Whistler, 1945-1951, 1954-1955, Escape, 1947-1954, My Friend Irma, 1947-1954, My Favorite Husband, 1948-1951, Our Miss Brooks, 1948-1957, Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar, 1949-1960, The Lineup, 1950-1953, Meet Millie, 1951-1954, Junior Miss, 1952-1954, Hallmark Hall of Fame, 1953-1955 and Have Gun-Will Travel, 1958-1960. In addition to scripts, the collection also contains scattered production notes and memoranda related to the broadcast of specific series.
Repository/Collector:
American Radio Archives, Thousand Oaks Library Foundation
Consists of materials related to Laughton's career in all areas of show business, including screen, stage, radio and television productions. Includes radio scripts for Corwin Presents.
Repository/Collector:
Department of Special Collections, University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA)
A restaurateur active in Los Angeles politics and civic reform movements, the collection includes papers and scripts of Clinton's program The People's Voice, 1940-1945, heard on various Los Angeles stations.
Repository/Collector:
Department of Special Collections, University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA)
The KSFO Collection consists of audiovisual material and ephemera from this San Francisco radio station's years owned by Golden West Broadcasting, 1956-1983. KSFO was known for their news and sports coverage, as well as the voice talents of such personalities as Don Sherwood, Russ Hodges, Lon Simmons, and Al "Jazzbo" Collins. The majority of this collection involves station marketing, promotions, and fundraisers, although there are airchecks and other broadcast recordings. Production library material includes jingles, themes, music beds, promotional spots, and advertising. Physical media in the KSFO collection is primarily audio on tape (around 650 objects), with some video (largely U-Matic cassettes), 16mm film (four reels), photographs, slides, and ephemera (eight scrapbooks of printed matter).
Content types:
Performed music, Spoken word, Still image, Text, and Two-dimensional moving image
Formats:
Polyester open reel tape, Motion picture film, U-matic (including U-matic S), Photographic print, and Text document
Audiovisual material and ephemera from the KSFO San Francisco radio station, made between 1956 and1983. Content includes famous radio personalities, station marketing, promotions, fundraisers, also jingles, themes, music beds, promotional spots, and advertising.
Content types:
Performed music, Spoken word, Still image, and Text
Formats:
Polyester open reel tape, Motion picture film, VHS (including SVHS and VHS-C), Photographic print, Photographic negative, and Text document
Evangelical sermons, prayers, and hymnal recordings mostly on compact disc, originally broadcast from 1937 to 1968 on the radio program Old Fashioned Revival Hour with radio host Charles Fuller (1887-1968). The collection includes original programs from the 1950s and rebroadcasts from 2002 to the present. More programs will be added as they become available. The music CDs and cassettes were were produced on the campus of Fuller Theological Seminary and were published between 1999 and 2004.
1000 off-air recordings of local and network radio, Menlo Park, CA from 1937 to 1949, made with home recording machine to make aluminum, lacquer discs of broadcasts, mostly war-related news & commentary
The Ragtime Machine was a weekly one-hour radio program about ragtime music, produced and hosted by David Reffkin and broadcast on the University of San Francisco's station KUSF. The collection contains all programs from 1981 to 2007, as well as program logs describing their contents, including guests interviewed and songs played.
The Ed Wilkinson Collection consists of classical and opera performance broadcasts of the 1930s and 40s on open reel tape, the majority of which from the Standard Symphony Hour series.
The KZSU Collection consists of tape recordings of lectures by Stanford faculty on campus from January to May 1968, originally broadcast on student radio station KZSU. While on a variety of topics, contemporary sociological, scientific, and economic issues are prevalent. The lecture series was sponsored by Century 21 realty company. Note cards describing tape speed, playback issues, and sound quality are inserted in each tape box. Some of the multi-part lectures are missing a part. Additional recordings may be added to this collection at a later time.
Since 1989, Riverwalk Jazz: Live At The Landing educates and entertains public radio listeners with a program devoted to celebrating traditional jazz and popular music of the pre-war era, featuring performances from the Jim Cullum Jazz Band and guests. This collection contains copies of all the finished programs, as well as elements, other source material, and files documenting every aspect of the show's production.
Content types:
Performed music, Spoken word, and Text
Formats:
Optical disc (including CD, CD-R, CD-RW, DVD, DVD-R, DVD-RW, VCD), Analog audiocassette, Digital Audio Tape (DAT), Polyester open reel tape, and Text document
Historic music and speech recordings, primarily on open reel tape, made on the campus of Stanford University. The collection also includes video formats, one 8 mm film and two audio cassettes.
Content types:
Performed music, Spoken word, and Two-dimensional moving image
Formats:
Optical disc (including CD, CD-R, CD-RW, DVD, DVD-R, DVD-RW, VCD), Polyester open reel tape, VHS (including SVHS and VHS-C), 8mm video (including Hi8), and Open reel video
The Stanford Speech Collection consists of audio recordings on open reel tape of speeches, lectures, and panel discussions at or sponsored by Stanford University from the 1950s through the 70s. Many recordings were produced and edited for broadcast on campus radio station KZSU (especially those tapes from 1969-1971).
KTAO-FM was a free-form radio station in Los Gatos, California, that existed from March, 1969, through June, 1974, and operated at 95.3 FM. The KTAO Aircheck Archives comprise audio collages with instruments played in the studio to be used as taped effects; a "jam" session recorded July 29, 1971; and an interview with Roy Rogers and Dale Evans interviewed in Los Gatos by Geoff Alexander and Don Campau, June 9, 1971, at a residence in Los Gatos, California. In addition, the collection includes images of KTAO operators and musicians in 1974; photographs of the 40th anniversary reunion; original Los Gatos business license (1974); several images of counter-culture posters; letter from Gary R. Dahl to Roger Mann.
Content types:
Performed music, Sounds (Other than music & language), Spoken word, Still image, and Text
Formats:
Digital audio file (including MP3, WAV, AIFF, etc.), Photographic print, and Text document
Includes more than 400 transcription discs for The Beulah Show starring Hattie McDaniel as Beulah in 15-minute radio serializations. A script for the March 10, 1948 episode features Hattie and her brother Sam McDaniel. Also includes photographs and material on Sam from his vaudeville days and some scripts from films, television and other radio programs.
Repository/Collector:
Margaret Herrick Library, Dept. of Special Collections
Consists primarily of Hopper's personal files related almost exclusively to her work as a columnist and to her social life but also contains documentation about her radio appearances.
Repository/Collector:
Margaret Herrick Library, Dept. of Special Collections
Consists of scrapbooks containing thousands of columns she wrote over six decades. Also contains biographical clippings on Parsons and coverage of her various radio programs.
Repository/Collector:
Margaret Herrick Library, Dept. of Special Collections
Consists primarily of material on various personalities utilized by Skolsky in the preparation of his tintypes. Additional items include miscellaneous television and radio scripts.
Repository/Collector:
Margaret Herrick Library, Dept. of Special Collections
Contains scripts for radio and television, including Studio One, 1947-1948, Ford Theater, 1948-1949, Life With Father, 1954, Sears Radio Theater, 1979-1980 and Mutual Radio Theater, 1980-1981. Also includes documents, photos, press clippings and most correspondence related to these series.
Repository/Collector:
American Radio Archives, Thousand Oaks Library Foundation
Contains papers relating to his career as a television producer and writer and as the author of a biography of Jack Benny and a book on comedy writing. Includes correspondence, radio and television scripts, book manuscripts, sound recordings, press clippings, research notes and other materials.
Repository/Collector:
American Radio Archives, Thousand Oaks Library Foundation
Contains scripts of Spotlight Playhouse, 1946, The Eddy King Show, 1947-1948, Ready for Brady, 1948-1949, The Monty Masters Show, 1948-1949, and Candy Matson, 1949-1951. In addition to these series, the collection contains story treatments and sample scripts for proposed television and radio series from the early 1950s as well as single copies of scripts from various radio programs.
Repository/Collector:
American Radio Archives, Thousand Oaks Library Foundation
Contains scripts for radio and television series, including Duffy's Tavern, 1946-1949, Jimmy Durante Show, 1950, That's Rich, 1954, Ray Milland Show, 1954-1955, Meet Millie, 1955-1956, Professional Father, 1955 and How to Marry a Millionaire, 1957-1958. Collection also includes series treatments, story outlines, sketches and jokes. Some items include production notes.
Repository/Collector:
American Radio Archives, Thousand Oaks Library Foundation
Currently contains materials selected and organized by Corwin for inclusion during his lifetime, including correspondence, scrapbooks, radio and television scripts, motion picture screenplays, sound recordings, video recordings, photographs, business records and contracts, press clippings and ephemera. The bulk of the accessible materials documents Corwin's career in radio and television broadcasting, motion pictures, the theater and as an author and teacher, 1935-1990. As of 2005, the collection is partly arranged and described.
Repository/Collector:
American Radio Archives, Thousand Oaks Library Foundation
Consists Primarily of black and white photographs of Rudy Vallee, his friends and associates and locations where he performed. Also includes one color photograph of Vallee and his wife Eleanor (ca. 1980), one letter from Vallee, several greeting cards and a small file of press clippings.