Monday, June 02, 2008

Radio on the TV: 1948








What's interesting about these kinescopes of a special DuMont television broadcast of Don McNeill's Breakfast Club program from ABC radio isn't just the peek we get at the earliest days of American network television.

NO, WHAT'S INTERESTING is the view inside what it took to put on a live network radio program way back when. It took people. Lots and lots of cast members. An orchestra. Writers churning out scripts. A technical crew.

Today, we get WAV files on HAL 9000.

Anybody got a time machine they can lend me? "Progress" hasn't left me exactly edified.

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