Carl Amari, an American film and television producer, actor, director and syndicated radio host, creator of "When Radio Was" has spent his 40+ year career dedicated to preserving and licensing original radio shows. His syndicated nostalgia radio show, Hollywood 360, airs on hundreds of radio stations in the U.S. and in 168 countries via American Forces Radio. Amari is producer/director of The Twilight Zone Radio Dramas and the curator of the Classic Radio Club, where fans of original radio shows can collect them directly from the master source material.
Ziv's entire private collection of over 10,000 transcription discs (which have been stored in a controlled environment) has been exclusively licensed to Carl Amari.
I was contacted by Doug Hopkinson who will be transfering and handling the digitalization of the Transcription Discs. There will be a Kickstarter in the future to help with the cost of this process.
Bold Venture, which has NEVER been available as a complete series before, is only one of 41 different radio series that can be found in the private collection of Frederic W. Ziv.
Ziv produced a total of 78 programs of the Bold Venture radio series. All 78 programs will be consistent in audio quality, due to the condition of these archival discs, due to the hi-tech ultrasonic wash system that will be employed and due to the array of styli widths that will be available for use. All programs will be digitally recorded and saved in raw 16 bit wav files. At least 18 of these programs have not been heard in 70 years since they were last broadcast over radio.
If this Bold Venture Kickstarter proves successful, there will be future Kickstarters for other vintage radio series from this private collection of un-played discs. These other COMPLETE radio series include Boston Blackie, The Cisco Kid, I Was A Communist for the FBI, Philo Vance, Favorite Story and Mr. District Attorney just to name a few...
When I have more information on this project, I will pass on the details for anyone that may be interested. September 23 is the projected date.
Robert
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The Bold Ventue kickstarter page is up.
Here is the LINK
This quote is from site:
"This project's goal is to raise funds to cover the costs involved in acquiring, licensing and extracting the audio from 78 vintage 16" diameter transcription discs of the Bold Venture radio series, and preserving them for posterity in digital format and on audio CD."