Collection search - On the Homefront: American Radio Goes to War, 1941-1945

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On the Homefront: American Radio Goes to War, 1941-1945

Item number (ISN):

418047

Hierarchical level:

Item (Accession level)

Date:

1976-02-09

Item number (ISN):

418047

Type of material:

Sound recordings

Found in:

Archives / Film, Video and Sound

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Record information – Details

Fonds/collection:

UNITED STATES. NATIONAL ARCHIVES & RECORDS ADMINISTRATION

Accession:

1980-0071

Media:

Sound

Part:

2 of 2

Production date:

1976-02-09

Production company:

National Archives and Records Administration

Description:

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Radio excerpts presented by Les Waffen of the U.S. National Archives and Records Service, at the convention of the American Association for Recorded Sound (AFRS), about: radio on the home front; radio's role in the promotion of the war effort; radio and the Second World War; taking advantage of war promotions; and wartime music. The excerpts from radio broadcasts are: Sammy Kaye and Bulletin, 7 December 1941; KGU reporter on Pearl Harbor, 7 December 1941; Franklin Delano Roosevelt on the attack on Pearl Harbor and including his Day of Infamy quote, 8 December 1941; Goodbye Mama; Lucky Strike Green commercial; war effort commercials for Kraft, Duz and Olga Coal; expert of the radio series Joyce Jordan, MD; Chaplain Jim; Fibber McGee and Molly; This is War series; This is War (Your Army) program; The Twenty-Second Letter; They Live Forever; Robert Dryden interview; Men Behind the Gun (Prep Joe); This is Your Enemy (Women in the Third Reich) No. 69; Bombs Away with James Cagney; Round and Round Hitler's Grave; This is Your Enemy (Hitler Youth) No. 55; Der Fuhrer's Face (Tommy Trinder); You Can't Do Business With Hitler; They Live Forever; The Jap and the Wop and the Hun (Ronald Frankau); Out of the Frying Pan; Junk Ain't Junk No More (Bing Crosby); Victory Gardens; Frank Morgan and Joan Davis on bonds; Buy a Bond (Bing Crosby); Waste Paper; Used Fat; ABC's of Rationing (OPA); Mileage Rationing (Allen, Benny and Cantor); Victory Spotlight Bands (Sammy Kaye); You Can't Say No To a Soldier; and Command Performance (Dick Tracy in B Flat). <30mn 15s>

Language:

English

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1. Auditioning required to confirm duration (duration cited in collection file is 1 hour and also 30 minutes, 15 seconds, so do not know which is correct.)

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Vault ISN:

500187

Format:

SOUND

Location number:

1980-0071/1
1980-0071/2

Number of items:

2

Kind of sound:

R/R

Made from:

DEPOSIT

Status:

ORIG
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Conditions of access:

Open

Restrictions on consultation:

No Restrictions / Pas de restrictions

Copyright owner:

Copyright owner: copyright varies.

Reproduction access:

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

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