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The Old-Time Radio Digest!
Volume 2004 : Issue 224
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ISSN: 1533-9289
Today's Topics:
Stan Davis [ William L Murtough <k2mfi@[removed]; ]
Peg Lynch documentary [ "Phil Watson" <possum@[removed] ]
UK discontinuing analog radio [ Tony Baechler <tony@[removed]; ]
FAX in 1940 [ KENPILETIC@[removed] ]
7-8 births/deaths [ Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed]; ]
Re: Radio Photography [ George Guffey <grguffey@[removed]; ]
Teresa Brewer [ Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed]; ]
"Once Upon a Time" [ Randy Watts <rew1014@[removed]; ]
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Date: Wed, 7 Jul 2004 12:16:05 -0400
From: William L Murtough <k2mfi@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: Stan Davis
I was interested in the article by Jim Cox about Stan Davis. I knew Stan
very well in that he was a CBS staff "AD".(assocate director). They were
the people who sat alongside the engineer and filled out the production
forms for all the programs. Consequently his name would have been on
numerous company "logs" of programs. On one of the "soaps" he did play
the opening and closing themes on a ukelele. However I do not recall that
he directed. Associate directors were network staff and were originally
called "production men". Later as a result of a union negotian they were
called associate directors but still had the same duties. Apparently the
listings in old time radio books mislead the readers as the authors did
not understand the terminology. We had a very fine staff of associate
directors at CBS radio in those days. One that I worked with quite often
was Gene Hite who was very knowledgable. The directors always appreciated
his advise. One show we worked on together was "Phillip Morris
Playhouse". More on that at another time.
Bill Murtough
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Date: Wed, 7 Jul 2004 14:41:47 -0400
From: "Phil Watson" <possum@[removed];
To: <[removed]@[removed];
Subject: Peg Lynch documentary
David Kindred and Steve Lewis both asked what happened to the BBC Radio
4 documentary about Peg Lynch "The Woman Who Invented Sitcom". The
writer of the well-remembered children's Jennings stories, Anthony
Buckeridge, died last week and a 1997 documentary about him was
rebroadcast as a tribute. No doubt the Lynch item will be rescheduled.
If I see it in the Radio Times listing magazine, I'll advise the digest.
I was looking forward to it too.
Regards from England
Phil
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Date: Wed, 7 Jul 2004 14:42:10 -0400
From: Tony Baechler <tony@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: UK discontinuing analog radio
Hello. This is slightly off topic, but I was a little surprised to read
this. I know that they launched BBC7 which is all digital and you can
listen to most of the other channels online, but I am still surprised that
they are completely eliminating analog.
A switch-off date for analogue radio will be decided later this year by
Culture Secretary
Tessa Jowell.
Ms Jowell said she would review digital radio take-up in a foreword to a
report due
to be published by the industry's Digital Radio Development Bureau.
Story from BBC NEWS:
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Date: Wed, 7 Jul 2004 15:33:25 -0400
From: KENPILETIC@[removed]
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: FAX in 1940
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Hi Gang -
In issue 222, Philip Railsback asked for an answer to a "technical question"
where Billy Batson (Capt. Marvel) used a portable radio fax machine in 1940.
Yes, Facsimile (FAX) equipment was available back then. It could be
transmitted and received using AM, FM, and some other modes on certain
frequencies. It was called A4 or F4 emission. The designators have since
been changed to three characters due to the many more modes possible.
I obtained two old units in the early 1960s, and they still worked fine. One
was
needed for transmit, and another for receive. I don't know when these units
were built, but it could have been in the 1940's. They were mechanical.
A metal drum, about the size of a toilet paper cardboard, was attached to
a motor which caused the drum to rotate. The written paper or picture was
wrapped around the drum and held in place with a spring. A "reader" head
would scan lengthwise while the drum rotated.
The receiver was similar, except that a sensitized paper (FAX paper) would
be wrapped around that drum, and a "writer" head scanned (wrote on) the
paper (in 1940 it may have had to be developed photographically).
A synchronizing pulse was sent each revolution of the sending drum, and
the motor on the receiver would self-adjust to keep the receiver in sync with
the transmitter. A variable signal would be transmitted between sync pulses.
You could hear these signals on a shortwave receiver. The sync pulse had
a regular rhythm and the data squeeked in between pulses. Strange Music.
I don't know whether any commercial radio stations actually used these
facsimile systems in 1940, but the technology was available.
Philip also asks "...Why even bother since the telephone or telegraph
wires would have been just as fast?..."
Maybe not - back in the 1940's it sometimes took hours to connect a
coast-to-coast phone call through many switchboards.
Hope this helps.
Happy Taping - Ken Piletic (W9ZMR), Streamwood, Illinois
kenpiletic@[removed]
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Date: Wed, 7 Jul 2004 17:59:48 -0400
From: Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed];
To: Olde Tyme Radio List <[removed]@[removed];
Subject: 7-8 births/deaths
July 8th births
07-08-1889 - Eugene Pallette - Winfield, KS - d. 9-3-1954
actor: "Screen Guild Theatre"
07-08-1898 - Melville Ruick - Boise, ID - d. 1972
actor, announcer: "Cavalcade of America"; "Quiet Please"; "Suspense"
07-08-1913 - Ann Thomas - Newport, RI - d. 4-28-1989
actress: Sharon O'Shaughnessy "Bob Burns Show"; Barbara Weeks "We Love and
Learn"
07-08-1913 - Bill Thompson - Terre Haute, IN - d. 7-15-1971
actor: Wallace Wimple, Horatio K Boomer and others "Fibber McGee and Molly"
07-08-1917 - Faye Emerson - Elizabeth, NJ - d. 3-9-1983
actress: "My Silent Partner"
07-08-1917 - Glenn Langan - Denver, CO - d. 1-19-1991
actor: "Chuck Morgan "Stand By For Crime"; "Lux Radio Theatre"
07-08-1931 - Jerry Vale - NYC
singer: "Peter Lind Hayes Show"
07-08-1935 - Steve Lawrence - Brooklyn, NY
singer: "Roadshow"
July 8th deaths
03-04-1914 - Ward Kimball - Minneapolis, MN - d. 7-8-2002
disney animator: "Here's to Veterans"
08-24-1913 - Howard Duff - Bremerton, WA - d. 7-8-1990
actor: Sam Spade "Advs. of Sam Spade"; Mike McCoy "McCoy"; Josh Chandler
"Dear John"
10-25-1914 - John Reed King - Atlantic City, NJ - d. 7-8-1979
announcer, actor:"Columbia Workshop"; Schuyler 'Sky' King " "Sky King"
11-05-1913 - Vivien Leigh - Darjeeling, India - d. 7-8-1967
actress: "Lux Radio Theatre"
12-25-1904 - Gladys Swarthout - Deepwater, MO - d. 7-8-1969
singer: "Palmolive Beauty Box Theatre"; "Prudential Family Hour"; "Voice of
Firestone"
--
Ron Sayles
Milwaukee, Wisconsin
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Date: Thu, 8 Jul 2004 00:23:01 -0400
From: George Guffey <grguffey@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: Re: Radio Photography
On Tuesday, 6 July 2004, "Jack"
<qualitas@[removed]; wrote:
Radio Fax was possible, the problem is that I don't
remember the years. Probable during the late 40's and
early 50's. . . .
For relevant details on some of the issues discussed
in this thread, see the following:
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(1939--first daily newspaper by radio facsimile)
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(1948--New York Times published by FM facsimile)
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(1955--Date of first transcontinental radio facsimile
transmission)
George
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Date: Thu, 8 Jul 2004 00:23:15 -0400
From: Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed];
To: Olde Tyme Radio List <[removed]@[removed];
Subject: Teresa Brewer
I have Teresa Brewer's birthday listed as July 7th, this is inaccurate. Her
birthday is actually May 7th the year staying the same. Another typo . . . oh
well, back to the drawing board.
--
Ron Sayles
Milwaukee, Wisconsin
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Date: Thu, 8 Jul 2004 00:23:28 -0400
From: Randy Watts <rew1014@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: "Once Upon a Time"
Regarding "Once Upon a Time," the 1944 film adaptation
of Norman Corwin's radio play "My Client Curley," the
movie was released on DVD by Columbia Tristar last
year and appears to be readily available from
retailers.
Randy
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