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The great American broadcast : a celebration of radio's golden age

Title
The great American broadcast : a celebration of radio's golden age / Leonard Maltin.
Author
Maltin, Leonard.
Publication
New York : Dutton, ©1997.

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Description
xi, 324 pages : illustrations; 25 cm
Summary
Interviews with veterans of the golden age of radio show that radio, free of the demands of the camera, was (and is) the ideal medium for the spontaneity and improvization that create a special kind of magic.
Alternative Title
American broadcast
Subject
  • Radio broadcasting > United States > History
  • Radio broadcasting
  • Hörfunk
  • United States
  • USA
Genre/Form
  • Radio programs.
  • History.
  • Émissions radiophoniques.
Note
  • Includes index.
Contents
Introduction -- Signing on ... -- Writing for radio -- Directors -- Sound effects ... and the effects of sound -- A skill and an art: radio acting -- Your announcer ... -- And now, a word about sponsors -- But seriously, folks ... -- Audiences -- An actor's life -- The Hollywood connection -- Music, music, music -- LIVE -- on the air! -- The end of an era.
ISBN
  • 0525941835
  • 9780525941835
LCCN
97011490
OCLC
  • ocm36589546
  • 36589546
  • SCSB-9173700
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library