Film and Radio Guide (Oct 1945-Jun 1946)

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November, 1 945 13 FILM AND RADIO GUIDE technician, and then Assistant Manager of the Sound Effects Division, NBC. Walter McGraw. A Production Director at the National Broadcasting Company. After receiving the A.M. degree at Wayne University, he taught speech and radio at Michigan State College. He has been active in writing, acting and producing both for local stations and the networks. George Maynard. An Assistant Manager of the National Broadcasting Company’s Production Department. Formerly assistant stage manager for the Metropolitan Opera Company, and also for Paramount Pictures. Formerly program manager o f WEVD, New York. Studied music in Paris for two years. Served as correspondent in Germany in 1927 for Musical America. Frank Papp. Director, at the National Broadcasting Company, of the NBC University of the Air program, The World’s Great Novels, and the religious drama. The Eternal Light. Was director of the Archibald MacLeish series, The American Story, and of Vic and Sade, That They Might Live, Here’s to Youth, and Right to Happiness. Formerly a director of plays. John F. Royal. Vice-President, National Broadcasting Company, in charge of Television. From Station WTAM, Cleveland, he came to NBC as Program Director. Adolph J. Schneider, Assistant Manager of Operations of the National Broadcasing Company’s News and Special Events Department. After extensive newspaper experience, became editor, Station WHO, Des Moines, for the first licensed facsimile broadcast in this country. Jane Tiffany Wagner. Director of Home Economics for the Na tional Broadcasting Company. Graduate home economist and instructor in home economics education. Now supervisor of NBC’s network program. Home is What You Make It. Ferdinand A. Wankel. Eastern Division Engineer of the National Broadcasting Company. For the past sixteen years, actively participating in all technical phases of radio broadcast and television operations for this company. Jane Dorsey Zimmerman. Author of Radio Pronunciations of Ttvo Hundred Educated Nonprofessional Radio Speakers. Associate Editor 0 f American Speech. Fellow, American Speech Correction Association. Assistant Professor of Speech in Teachers College. OUTLINE OF COURSES Following is an outline of the courses, now given in University Extension, but likely to be made eventually a part of regular graduate and undergraduate curricula, leading to degrees for students majoring in radio. Most of the courses are conducted at the NBC Studios in Radio City, New York, world’s greatest radio center. Enrollment is limited to carefully selected students possessing the requisites for successful work: Introduction to dramatic radio writing. Mr. Barnouw. Detailed examination of current theories and techniques in dramatic radio writing emphasizing the halfhour, single-shot script for U. S. sustaining and commercial markets. The Winter Session is concerned chiefly with elements of radio writing; narration, dialogue, music, and sound. Adaptations from the novel and short story will be stressed. The Spring Session includes a study of the daytime serial, children’s programs, the mystery-suspense format, comedy (but not gag writing), the documentary, and the historical script form. Advanced dramatic radio writing. Mr. Arnold. An advanced workshop course for those interested in professional radio writing as a career. The course procedure and topics covered will be adapted to the individual interests and background of the class members. Extensive writing and special projects with analytical criticism -and round table discussion of plays written by the class members. Consideration of the current market for radio writing. Recordings of past and current broadcasts will be played and discussed in class. Script writing for radio and television news services. Mr. Schneider. The course offers practical training in the specialized field of radio news writing and editing with particularemphasis upon techniques employed in news rooms of major radio networks. The course embraces discussion of radio and newsroom production problems, assignments afield, the radio reporter at war, and network and local station news. Broadcasting of radio and television news services. Mr. Brooks, assisted by NBC Newsroom Staff. The course deals with the theory and practice of broadcasting news and special events. Lectures on the history of communications, growth of radio news, public acceptance, development of radio’s news coverage and plans for covering the world by radio, facsimile and television. Students will receive practical experience in the development and reporting of special events and will be required to complete supplementary assignments on subjects of oral and visual television. Radio publicity and promotion. Messrs. Eiges and Hammond. This course offers a practical picture of the relationships between the network or station publicity department and the radio editor, the general newspaper and magazine press, the sponsor, the production director, and the advertising agency. It will study the mechanics of radio publicity department operation. Discussion will point out how the publicity department can aid in building audiences for programs broadcast for educational, religious, and public service institutions as well as for commercial, industrial, political, and economic organizations. Fundamentals of radio station and network promotion, with specific emphasis on sales promotion, audience promotion and institutional promotion.