Best broadcasts of 1938-39 (1939)

Record Details:

Title:
Best broadcasts of 1938-39
Date:
1939
Publisher:
New York : Whittlesey House
Volume:
Best broadcasts of 1938-39
Leaf #:
000569
Language:
English
Collection:
Books and Broadcasting & Recorded Sound
Format:
Books
Contributor:
Media History Digital Library
Sponsor:
Media History Digital Library
Coordinator:
Media History Digital Library
Description:
Date Added:
May 30, 2024
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AIR RAID Sound. — Machine gun burst. Women. — {Shriek) Sound. — Ominous roar of bombers continues . . . plane dives . . . machine gun bursts . . . plane dives . . . machine gun burst . . . women's shrieks fade under burst . . . ominous roar of planes blends with Music. — Note low . . . throbbing . . . always diminishing. First Boy. — {Voice rises and breaks on each word) Harry! Harry! Harry! Music. — Note continues throbbing . . . fading. Young Man. — {Close) Stay as you are: do not move. Do not ever move. . . . Music. — Note continues throbbing. . . . fading . . . singing woman on slow, screaming scale of purest agony, broken in ghastly scream at the highest possible note. The long music note of the planes fades to silence . . . five seconds' silence. Announcer. — You have just heard “Air Raid,” an original verse play for radio written by Archibald MacLeish and produced by the Columbia Workshop. Sound. — Bombers . . . faint . . . steady. Announcer. — The Columbia Network, believing that this performance of “Air Raid” should not be lost with the last sounds of the broadcast, has arranged for a recording which will be available shortly in your local record shops. This is the Columbia Broadcasting System. 545