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	    [removed]   Volume 96 : Issue 6


Articles in this issue of [removed]:

	 Amos&Andy/"Black Radio"
	 Name that show
	 Squeaking Doors
	 Remember WENN
	 Archiving on CD-R & VHS HiFi
	       WENN
	 VHS-HI FI ARCHIVING
	 Clean rollers
	 Failed communications
	 Anthony Boucher, Rennaisance man
	 Sam n' HENRY!!!
	 More on radio announcers - Fred Foy
	 George Edwards Productions
	 New Orleans radio in 1920?

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Date: Thu, 4 Jan 1996 18:32:59 -0500 (EST)
From: "Kathy O'Connell" <oconnell@[removed]>
To: otr@[removed]
Subject: Amos&Andy/"Black Radio"
Message-Id: <[removed]@[removed]>

Public radio is currently running a wonderful series called "Black 
Radio."  This series looks at the way African-American people have been 
portrayed on the radio, looks at the origins of some shows (like A&A), 
and has lots of the sounds of what used to be called "race" radio.  It's 
an excellent series.  I caught it today on WHYY in Philadelphia, and 
today's episode was about Amos & Andy, Beulah, and people's responses to 
these shows.
It's a well-done series, worth looking for.

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Date: Thu, 4 Jan 1996 18:28:36 -0700
From: Jerry Purvis <hqsouth@[removed]>
To: otr@[removed]
Subject: Name that show
Message-Id: <[removed]@[removed]>

Hi Gang!  I've been trying to find an episode of the CBS Radio Mystery
Theater.  Without the name, it's frustrating. 

This episode aired in the early '60s.  Man reads about a sunken ship with a
treasure aboard.  However, where it sank is now a desert.  The desert winds
uncover the wreckage every 20 years or so.

Man finds uncovered ship, but has to kill a few people along the way.  He
props up the hatch to go below deck.  He finds the treasure and a body in
the hold just as the hatch support collapses.  As he tries to get out, he
hears the desert winds covering up the ship.

Can anyone help with naming this episode?  I'd like to get a copy of it.
Thanks for any help.

Jerry at
Wind River Communications

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Date: Thu, 04 Jan 1996 20:23:57 -0600
From: hhoward@[removed] (Henry Howard)
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: Squeaking Doors
Message-Id: <[removed]@[removed]>

I guess that I have been blessed.  Almost evey studio door that I have been
associated with has
been a natural squeaker.  I guess it's one of those "solid" door weight
things.  

I do remember almost killing a friend who oiled all the kitchen cabnet doors
one day while
I was away.  Not only did it kill may of my squeak sources, I could no
longer tell who was in
which cabinet from the other end of the house.  I knew the squeaks that well.

I have from time to time used a 1 x 8 (ish) board with a hole drilled near
one end and a one
inch dowel inserted into the whole to produce some interesting noises.  Not
quite a door most
of the time.  It depends a lot on the weather and humidity.

+++++ Henry Howard == The Atlanta Radio Theatre Company +++++
+++++    [removed]   or/artc /audiocraft     +++++
+++++               Produced at Audio Craft  (770) 923-7955
+++++
======================================================= (2)

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Date: Thu, 04 Jan 1996 20:36:49 -0600
From: hhoward@[removed] (Henry Howard)
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: Remember WENN
Message-Id: <[removed]@[removed]>

Radio World reported on November 29 the the "American Movie Classics is
pulling out all the stops
for this productins."  The story is written by Tony award-winning author and
coposer Rupert Homes.
THE AMC producition "strives for realism in every aspect, down to the speech
elements on the air- keeping in mind that radio hosts of the 1930's
prepared their dialogues meticulously."

"Other elements that pay tribute to the era include the art of foley (the
creation of sound effects)
with a character dedicated to just that was written into the script."

(Note of course, that "Foley" is an improper term to use when refering to
sound effects of the
1930's, as Jack had not created the concept then.)

Also included will be [removed] and their involvement.

The program was shot on film, then manipulted to emulate the Technicolor
process which was prevalent in movies of the 1930's.

Scheduled to premier on January 13, the 86th anniversary of Lee de Forest's
first public broadcast in NYC.




+++++ Henry Howard == The Atlanta Radio Theatre Company +++++
+++++    [removed]   or/artc /audiocraft     +++++
+++++               Produced at Audio Craft  (770) 923-7955
+++++
======================================================= (2)

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Date: Thu, 4 Jan 1996 19:14:48 -0800
From: dabell@[removed] (Alan Bell)
To: otr@[removed]
Subject: Archiving on CD-R & VHS HiFi
Message-Id: <v01520d02ad11b5b6cf0a@[[removed]]>

I've been with this list for nearly a year now. At least long enough to
note the ebb and flow of certain topics which re-surface with great
regularity. Of course, archiving programs is a subject which will never be
exhausted as long as technology moves forward. I thought you might be
interested in a post from the FILMUS-L list (film music). It deals with
CD-R (recordable CDs), a medium which I have anticipated will be the
near-perfect medium. Well, maybe not right away, as this post indicates:

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Date:    Wed, 3 Jan 1996 10:47:56 -0600
From:    "H. Stephen Wright" <c60hsw1@[removed]>
Subject: Recordable CDs (was Re: AW: apollo 13)

On Wed, 3 Jan 1996, Bruce Fischer wrote:

> Please explain this.  What is the difference between CD and CD-R, and why
> would CD-R not last as long.

On a "regular" CD, the digital information is recorded as microscopic
"pits" etched directly into the metal surface of the disc.  On a
recordable CD (or CD-R), the information is recorded as holes in a layer
of green dye.  The long-term stability of the dye layer is doubtful.

I'm sure somebody else on this list can provide some technical
amplification of this, of course.

steve

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H. Stephen Wright                                        Music Library
hswright@[removed]                          Northern Illinois University
c60hsw1@[removed]                     Principal Owner, FILMUS-L
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So, for now, I still think Hi-Fi VHS is the best combination of price,
quality, and convenience. Its long-term viability is questionable, but I
have a couple of VHS tapes (movies) I recorded on an inferior machine more
than ten years ago, and if there's been any deterioration, I can't detect
it. Besides, its superior signal-to-noise ratio means that, at worse, the
programs could be dubbed AGAIN with virtually no loss in quality.

_____________________________________________________________________
ALAN BELL  3768 Sonoma Avenue  Santa Rosa, CA 95405  dabell@[removed]
=============================707-546-6988============================

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Date:          Thu, 4 Jan 1996 22:05:28 4
From: "Ronald F. Apgar" <apgar@[removed]>
To: otr@[removed]
Subject:       WENN
Message-Id: <[removed]@[removed]>

Just a reminder, AMERICAN MOVIE CLASSICS premier of their new TV 
show, "WENN radio,"  airs Saturday the 13th of January at 9 PM eastern time.

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Date: Thu, 04 Jan 1996 22:51:32 EST
From: DFEQ02A@[removed] (MR JOSEPH ANDOLINA JR)
To: otr@[removed]
Subject: VHS-HI FI ARCHIVING
Message-Id: <[removed]@[removed]>

I figured it's about time I had put my input and results with VHS 
HiFi archiving.  This is what I found:

I have two VHS HiFi recorders.  A Panasonic,  & a Magnovox.   If I 
dub radio shows onto my Panasonic at the SLP (6 hr.) speed,  and try 
to play that same tape back on the Magnovox,  I in most cases seem to 
have a tracking problem with the HiFi audio cutting in and out to 
monaural.  But,  if I play that same tape back on the Panasonic,  I 
have no problem.  I detect that some decks have a playback 
compatibility problem in stabilizing the HiFi audio,  especially at 
the SLP speed.  Has anybody else out there experienced such a problem?
  My point is this.  Let's say one day my Panasonic "bites the dust", 
 as you know electronic equipment can so often do after age,  then 
what happens to my HiFi archive of the radio shows?  I know I can 
shut off the HiFi audio and play back linear,  but of course the 
quality goes down (that is to say without re mastering the audio 
again).  So to me,  HiFi isn't certainly gaurenteed to make me happy, 
 but I suppose it can still suffice if it really came down to it.  I 
guess the life expectancy of video is still up in the air.

Joe Andolina

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Date: 04 Jan 96 23:58:37 EST
From: Joel  Senter <[removed]@[removed]>
To: OTR Digest <otr@[removed]>
Subject: Clean rollers
Message-ID: <[removed]@[removed]>

Some folks say it's OK to use alcohol to clean rollers if you don't get
them too wet.  Other folks say never to use alcohol on rollers.  If one
doesn't use alcohol on rollers, what would be recommended for cleaning
them?  Joel Senter

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Date: 05 Jan 96 00:55:02 EST
From: Joel  Senter <[removed]@[removed]>
To: OTR Digest <otr@[removed]>
Subject: Failed communications
Message-ID: <[removed]@[removed]>

I have received a couple of messages re: a recent posting and a simple
"reply" e-mail via CompuServe got me "User unknown" messages.  I don't
know how this can happen!!  I reply to the same address that the original
message came from!!  In any event, for the Indy Sherlock Holmes birthday
affair, try contacting Mark Gagen at CompuServe 72164,2055; for Hounds of
the Internet, try sending the message <subscribe hounds-l your name> to
<listserv@[removed]> if this doesn't work try contacting Alan
Block at <blocka@[removed]> - he is the originator of The Hounds of
Internet.  If neither of these Hounds things work, e-mail me again and
we'll try something else.  Joel Senter

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Date: Fri, 5 Jan 1996 01:46:33 -0500 (EST)
From: mschmid@[removed]
To: airwaves <[removed]@[removed]>
Subject: Anthony Boucher, Rennaisance man
Message-ID: <[removed]@[removed]>

	Along with his other credits mentioned of late, Anthony Boucher 
was also Arts Director here at WBAI-FM sometime during the 1960's.  He
also had a program called "Golden Voices of the Opera".

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Date: Fri, 5 Jan 1996 02:03:23 -0500 (EST)
From: mschmid@[removed]
To: airwaves <[removed]@[removed]>
Subject: Sam n' HENRY!!!
Message-ID: <[removed]@[removed]>

Need I say more?  Next we'll be told that Phil Spitalny's all-girl 
orchestra started out as the Temptations 
BTW I'll take Sam n'Dave over Amos & Andy anytime. Much better singers! ;->

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Date: Fri, 5 Jan 1996 02:15:41 -0500 (EST)
From: mschmid@[removed]
To: airwaves <[removed]@[removed]>
Subject: More on radio announcers - Fred Foy
Message-ID: <[removed]@[removed]>

	A dozen or so years ago I went to ABC TV here in NYC with my
partner at the time Jack Shugg to interview Fred Foy for a special on
WXYZ, home of the Lone Ranger.  He was the network announcer at that time.
	We went to his announce booth and started the interview. (This is also
where we got the Golden Age of Radio opening done by him - "From out of 
the past come the historic sounds of radio's bygone days.  THE GOLDEN AGE 
OF RADIO RIDES AGAIN!!!)  In the booth was a monitor displaying whatever 
soap opera was on at the time.  At least twenty minutes went by; then he 
had to go to work.  A promo came on, he put his headphones on.  At the 
end of the promo he opened his mike and intoned "Tonight!"
	Back to the interview.  Next commercial break the same thing: A
soap opera trailer came on, he hit the switch.  "Next!"  
	[removed] He was not wearing a tux.
	[removed]  I *want* that job!

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Date: Fri, 5 Jan 1996 01:58:21 -0500 (EST)
From: mschmid@[removed]
To: airwaves <[removed]@[removed]>
Subject: George Edwards Productions
Message-ID: <[removed]@[removed]>

	Frank Passage asked about Dr. Jeckyll & Mr Hyde.  The 44 part serial
by George Edwards is another fairly creaky early 30's style program.  I 
believe they were once a week fifteen minute shows, just like his 
Frankenstein, Hunchback of Notre Dame, etc.  Listening to any of these will
make you appreciate how far OTR progressed in a few short years.  Literal 
translations, but fairly leaden productions. 

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Date: Fri, 05 Jan 96 10:25:10 est
From: lee_maschmeyer@[removed]
To: otr@[removed]
Subject: New Orleans radio in 1920?
Message-Id: <[removed]@[removed]>

Since the first scheduled broadcast was the presidential returns of 1920 
(early November), I didn't think there would be enough time to get any 
other scheduled stations on the air before the new year.  I think I read 
somewhere that WWJ Detroit did its first broadcast in July, but that wasn't 
scheduled.  We've heard of the 1896(?) broadcast by Fesenden or someone, 
but I don't know that that really went beyond the walls of the laboratory.  
There was the 1910 Deforest broadcast with unusably bad quality, and I 
think the 1916 presidential returns which hardly anyone knows about.  But 
what is the history of New Orleans radio in 1920?

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