movies_creation
American Movie Archives (美國電影檔案)
- Title
- Independent Radio Station
- Year
- 1951
- Abstract
- Military training film on a New York radio station, WMCA, owned by the Nathan Straus family, showing its ownership, management and activities. Good view of radio in the era when most stations were locally owned and operated.
- Notes
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Produced: Mitchell Film Associates
Sponsor: U.S. Army
Run Time: 18:02
Audio/Visual: Sd, B&W - Keyword
- Communication: Radio;Media: Radio;Media: Radio
- Theme
- They Have Everything for you men to enjoy, you can hang out with all the boys!
- Review
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This portrait of WMCA New York (make your own joke up here, I have) a radio station in a democratic country (that would be the US - which explains why this short was made by the Army, no commie controls here!) and is quite a nice snapshot of how radio was programmed in the yesteryear. A special emphasis is placed on advertsing, after all, how could this station stay on the air? And the many types of programming presented until of course, the christian end of the broacast day at midnight. There's sports broadcasts, religious shows, and educational programs as well. The highlight comes in this short while the educational roundtable with an author and several students. When a student is asked why he likes biographies so much, the student just blabbers on and on and on til a salesman turns off the radio LOL
(Reviewer: Spuzz) - Location
- A/V room, 2/F