This past week in Radio class, we began a section on radio history. My fellow students and I prepared class presentations on different decades of radio.
A couple of presentations focused on “the golden age of radio”, the 30s and 40s. We learnt about and discussed radio dramas, comedy shows, news programming, and perhaps the most interesting of all, how sound effects were made during that time.
Coincidently, a friend sent me a video a couple of days ago that ties in with our radio history unit very nicely. It’s a tour of NBC radio, filmed back in 1948. It highlights almost all of the aspects of radio’s “golden age” I mentioned above. So sit back, relax, and enjoy!
NBC viewers in 1948: "tuned in today and focused on tomorrow."
ReplyDeleteSounds like CreComm in 2013!