[78-L] Norman corwin presentation

[David Lennick]

Good to know about the Amalgamated Inaugural..as I mentioned here a couple of 
months ago, I have the thing on cassettes (from Goldin?) and the transfers are 
pretty rough. Not that there's anything in there I'd want to hear a second time.

dl

On 10/25/2011 3:06 AM, Michael Biel wrote:
>
> From: Jeff Sultanof<jeffsultanof at gmail.com>
>> Dr. Biel,
>> Just a note to tell you that I loved the presentation on the ABS. I missed
>> the very beginning of the presentation, and I know this was covered in an
>> earlier thread, but how much of that premiere broadcast exists? Jeff Sultanof
>
> All four hours of the Amalgamated inaugural broadcast exist.  The discs
> were in the Ed Wynn archive and were transferred to tape by the National
> Archives back in the 1970s.  Neal Ellis has digitized the tapes and when
> he gets the side-joins edited he will have copies available.  His
> website is http://www.oldtimeradioonmp3.com/ and it will be on one MP3
> disc at a high encoding rate for $4 plus postage.
>
> To answer Joe Salerno's question about the availability of the Norman
> Corwin presentation I repeated at FOTR on Thursday, all of the FOTR
> presentations for the past ten years are available on DVD from Fred
> Berney's Satellite Media Productions.  The videos are $10 per disc and
> unfortunately my two presentations will be on two separate discs.  The
> website is http://oldietv.com/otr/fotr.html but you may need to email
> him to find out when they will be ready (he seems to have forgotten to
> put up last year's order form.)  fred at oldietv.com
>
> Mike Biel  mbiel at mbiel.com
>
>
> On Thu, Oct 20, 2011 at 1:51 AM, mbiel at mbiel.com<mbiel at mbiel.com>
> wrote:
>
>> I will be doing a live repeat of my ARSC presentation about Corwin at 12:15
>> PM Eastern time today Thursday that can be heard on YesterdayUSA.com from
>> the 36th (and final) convention of Friends of Old Time Radio. I am also
>> doing a presentation about Ed Wynn's short-lived Amalgamated Broadcasting
>> System at 3:15 pm. We go on the air at 9:30 am.
>>
>> Michael Biel mbiel at mbiel.com
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