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Hobby Lobby

Item number (ISN):

260804

Series title:

Hobby Lobby

Hierarchical level:

Item (Accession level)

Item number (ISN):

260804

Type of material:

Sound recordings

Found in:

Archives / Film, Video and Sound

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Record information – Details

Fonds/collection:

CANADIAN BROADCASTING CORPORATION, RADIO: MAIN CATALOGUE

Accession:

1982-0195

Media:

Sound

Part:

1 of 1

Release date:

1950 ?

Production company:

Dave Elman Productions

Production credit:

host, Dave Elman

Description:

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Dave Elman interviews people about their unusual hobbies. Acquaintance featured on this program is Gypsy Rose Lee, who talks about tattooing, a man who owns deeds to the universe, and an acquaintance of Adolf Hitler who has published a photographic history of Abrahma Lincoln.~Stefan Lorant, formerly of the Munich Illustrated Press in Germany, talks about his acquaintance with Hitler, and the interest in Lincoln that he (Lorant) developed during his imprisonment by Hitler. His hobby produced the book, "Lincoln, His Life in Photographs".~A woman in Summerville, Tennessee discusses her search for a remedy to baldness.~Walter Sewell, "the Daniel Boone of Idaho", spent years in the outdoors learning the language of animals and birds. He exercises his skills imitating domestic cats and dogs.~The Publicity Director of King Features Syndicate "collects" odd and antiquated laws. He has found a law in Massachusetts for instance that prohibits young girls from dancing on tightrope except in churches.~An English teacher in New York talks about his unique method of preserving flowers.~Gypsy Rose Lee discusses her hobby of collecting drawings from which tattoos are made, as well as the origin and history of the art. Interesting anecdotes highlight her discussion.~Arthur Dean Lindsay, of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, owns the universe. He tells how he was inspired to file deeds of ownership to the sun, moon and stars, and how he intends to dispose of them.~A teacher at Ohio State University High School makes musical instruments from unusual materials. Among them is a xylophone made from the fossilized bones of a rhinoceros, on which he plays.

Language:

English

Notes:

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1. Made by CBC from disc but disc not transferred to Nationa Archives.~2. Dave Elman Productions was in New York.

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Vault ISN:

299663

Format:

SOUND

Location number:

1982-0195/062

Number of items:

1

Kind of sound:

R/R

Technical description:

POLY

Made from:

DEPOSIT

Status:

ORIG

Vault ISN:

915572

Format:

SOUND

Location number:

260804-1982-0195-062.wav

Number of items:

1

Kind of sound:

BWF

Made from:

1982-0195/062

Status:

MASTER

Vault ISN:

915573

Format:

SOUND

Location number:

260804-1982-0195-062.mp3

Number of items:

1

Kind of sound:

MP3

Made from:

1982-0195/062

Status:

REF
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Conditions of access:

Open

GENCAT identity number:

GAD 0FD547

Restrictions on consultation:

To be Determined / À déterminer

Reproduction access:

With written permission of Copyright Owner / Avec la permission écrite du détenteur des droits d'auteur

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