A one-hour radio special that tells the unique story of the Beatles through the colourful collection of eyewitnesses, classic songs and many of the Beatles' inner circle of friends and colleagues. From the group's beginnings as The Quarrymen through some of their most difficult moments, The Beatles: Rare and Unseen is a collection of stories and eyewitness accounts from the people who were there. Interviews with Collin Hanton (Quarrymen drummer), Phil Collins, Tony Barrow and more.
Broadcast logs in Adobe Acrobat pdf format for
Jeff Regan, Investigator
and
Rogers of the Gazette
are available at:
http://www.old-time.com/otrlogs2/index.html
Broadcast logs for other Old-Time Radio series are in the works
and will be posted by the end of the year.
Content services (music, video, sport) often require that you be a resident of a certain country to use them, and attempt to enforce this with geographical blocking according to your device's IP. The Hola Unblocker enables watching native content from anywhere in the world -- available as a Chrome/Firefox extension or as a Windows client install that works with any browser.
Hola currently Unblocks only a selected list of sites, with many more coming soon. Check from within the Hola application or extension to see which sites can be Unblocked. Note that the Windows version Unblocks more sites than the extension does, but I recommend using the Firefox or Chrome browser extension for a quick look. It unblocks HULU, CBS, FOX, NETFLIX, PANDORA and ITV
You can find all the information and give it a try at hola.org
Give it a try and post your feedback here for others to review.
Boy is it cold here. No snow yet but windy and COLD!
Have you ever wanted to create your own television series? Kathryn O'Sullivan and her husband Paul Awad did just that—only they aired their Western soap online. The award-nominated series is called Thurston, and it’s one of many new independent productions in the emerging genre of web television.
“Thurston” is a Western drama about the residents of a remote mining town and their struggle for survival in the 1880’s Kansas Ozarks. Some residents are fleeing troubled pasts. Others are pursuing dreams. All keep carefully guarded secrets. As outside forces move in, the residents must decide who amongst them is friend and who is foe as they fight to save their lives and the place they now call home. “Thurston” seeks to retell the American story of the West and its peoples for the new frontier of online television.
You can catch up with season one on their web site or on vimeo.
Thurston - The Western Web Series Trailer from Thurston-The Series on Vimeo.
“Season 2 of indie soap THURSTON is coming in 2013 but you can watch the trailer now, featuring new cast member Colleen Zenk,” writes Roger Newcomb of We Love Soaps. “The three-time Emmy nominee from AS THE WORLD TURNS will be playing Agnes, the mother of the infamous Snead boys…”
Thurston: Season 2 Trailer from Thurston-The Series on Vimeo.
The Big Read is a program of the National Endowment for the Arts, designed to revitalize the role of literature in American culture and to encourage citizens to read for pleasure and enlightenment. As part of this program, the NEA produced several half-hour audio documentaries.
I like the idea of electronic books because they could be downloaded onto tablets, right? I could not find 'Electronic Book group post in The Little Red Schoolhouse group', so I'm posting here.
I like the idea of electronic books because they could be downloaded onto tablets, right? I could not find 'Electronic Book group post in The Little Red Schoolhouse group', so I'm posting here.
I hope everyone has a happy and SAFE New Year's celebration.
During Yuletide, Holmes and Watson face several Dickensian Londoners, a dusty hat, a famous gem - and a goose!
Craig Wichman plays the Great Detective, and John Prave, the Good Doctor. The cast features Emma Palzere, Joseph Franchini, Dan Renkin, Clyde Baldo, and Soprano Soloist Bernadette Fiorella (New York City Opera). Original music by Frank Spitznagel. Sound effects by Sue Zizza, Mr. Baldo, and the cast. Engineers, Chip Fabrizi and Dominick Barbera.
THE BLUE CARBUNCLE (A Christmas Adventure of Sherlock Holmes)
Just a note if any missed the OTRR Library Annual Christmas Drive. Below is the post on the Old Time Radio Researchers blog. I know a lot of our members enjoy the free OTRR Library from time to time, and if you can give a couple of dollars please help out the Group. Mention you are a member of Times Past and show our thanks.
From OTRR
"It’s that time of year again, when we come to you with our annual fund raising drive.
If you use and enjoy the library, you know it’s free to all to use. No bandwith charges, no individual episode charges or any of that other silly stuff that the MP3 FTP sites charge. We are totally free and even if you can’t make a contribution, you can still download to your heart’s content.
At Christmas, we ask all those of you who’ve enjoyed the library to help support the costs of the server on which the Library is hosted. Just put a couple of dollars in a envelope and send it to -
Jim Beshires
123 Davidson Ave
Savannah, GA 31419
Or if you’d rather contribute via paypal, send it to beshiresjim@yahoo.com."
Tea a dangerous habit? Women have long made a ritual of it, but in 19th century Ireland, moral reformers tried to talk them out of it. At the time, tea was considered a luxury, and taking the time to drink it was an affront to the morals of frugality and restraint.
Given tea's rap today as both a popular pick-me-up and a health elixir, it's hard to imagine that sipping tea was once thought of as a reckless, suspicious act, linked to revolutionary feminism.
Huh? Well, the feminist complaints came from 19th century, upper class Irish critics who argued that peasant women shouldn't be wasting their time — and limited resources — on tea. If women had time to sit down and enjoy a tea break, this must mean they were ignoring their domestic duties and instead, perhaps, opening the door to political engagement or even rebellion.
"Drinking tea was thought to threaten traditional ways," explains researcher Helen O'Connell of Durham University in the UK. In the 1800s, tea was an affront to the virtues of frugality and restraint, which underpinned rural Irish culture.
In a new paper published in the journal Literature and History, O'Connell explores the angst about tea by combing through popular pamphlets — or short works of fiction — published in the 1800s. The pamphlets were published by reformers who were trying to weave tales of morality and clean-living into story form.
In one pamphlet, "Cottage Dialouges," written by the Irish Quaker author and reformer Mary Leadbeater, a dialogue between two women makes it clear that tea-drinking was considered a lavish, irresponsible behavior that could be habit-forming. Though the characters don't know the language of addiction, they use the phrase "hankering after it" — as if to suggest that once you'd had your first cup of tea, it would impossible to stop or control your longings. Adding to this suggestion is the fact that tea was sold at liquor stores.
The reformers' campaign against tea took on another moral outrage too: slavery. Since tea was typically sweetened with sugar at the time, reformers in Ireland tried to convince people that tea-drinking was akin to drinking the blood of slaves who were forced to work the plantations where sugar was produced.
O'Connell says clearly, in the end, the campaign against tea was not successful. Consumption of tea continued to grow steadily during this period.
To us, the campaign against tea, particularly the suggestions it may lead to revolutionary feminism, may seem crazy.
But in some ways, O'Connell says, "contemporary culture has all of these ideas about food which might appear ludicrous in time to come."
Any examples come to mind? "Maybe organic food, I don't know," O'Connell says. Or maybe the way we obsess over gluten. "Working on this project has made me a bit more critical of food discourse," she says. "Our passions and beliefs sometimes take over."
Merry Christmas, Times Past from Dave Miller
Just returned from seeing a little theater group called the "Bread and Circus Theater Company". They performed "It's A Wonderful Life." as a live radio play. The year was 1946. The cast was all dressed in vintage clothing. They performed to microphones. Read from scripts. The actors performed multiple roles. Sound effects performed live on stage. A couple of adds from sponsers, hair cream and soap. Even had "On Air" and "Applause" signs for the audience. All and all a nice trip into the past to get the feel of what it must have been like to see a radio drama performed. If anyone gets the opportunity to see a performance from a theater group; By all means, make haste.
As evidenced by the subjects of government posters, food was every bit as important to the war effort as troops, weaponry and factories. From the farm to the front, food production, distribution, preservation and conservation played a vital role in war times. Significantly, the language of the posters may even speak of food in terms normally reserved for weapons. "When Beans Were Bullets", An Exhibition of Posters by Cory Bernat". War-Era Food Posters from the Collection of the National Agricultural Library features a collection of government posters that highlight the subject of food. The subjects range from canning to Victory Gardens. Lovers of American wartime history might appreciate this exhibit as much as I did.
"An Exhibition of Posters by Cory Bernat": http://www.good-potato.com/beans_are_bullets/
Additional Resources:
Yours ever in appreciation of history, Cat
Perhaps this is old news to many of you guys, but I can't seem to get this tune out of my head...
In November 1972, Italian pop star Adriano Celentano released a song that hit No. 1 in his home country, despite the fact it wasn't performed in Italian.
It also wasn't performed in English.
In fact, it wasn't performed in any language at all.
The song, called "Prisencolinensinainciusol," was written to mimic the way English sounds to non-English speakers.
Celentano, now 74 years old, says that he wanted to break down language barriers and inspire people to communicate more.
Read more about this vintage gibberish on NPR (yeah, you know you are in trouble when NPR is hipper than you are).
A Confederate soldier has the ability to win the Civil War for the South, but to do so, he must call upon the Devil himself as an ally.
Starring Adam West (Batman, Family Guy) with Stacy Keach as narrator.
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Ann Blyth suffered a broken back whiles sledding, this all happed while she was on a briefly vacationing in Snow Valley 14 miles from Lake Arrowhead. It was burring this time that, Annie and I became friends part of her recovery required her to swim. It was Joan Crawford that let Annie swim in her pool. Annie and I would go there all the time swimming, exercising. She said Crawford was always gracious, generous, a supportive actress who understood that this was a big change for Ann Blyth, a big opportunity for her, and she wanted the film to work and she wanted Ann to do well. I would push her around in that wheelchair day after day I would take Annie over in my car. It was also at that time I made the acquaintance of Charlie Marie Gordon we also have been friends for a very long time.
After two years Annie got a cameo role with Universal she was still her in her wheelchair-in Brute Force (1947). Universal used her in a wheelchair-bound cameo in Brute Force (1947). We still would go up to The Lake Arrowhead Resort is perched high in the San Bernardino Mountains, amid a thick pine forest in Lake Arrowhead, Calif. Lake Arrowhead Village is nestled in the beauty of the woods, having the charm of Swiss chalets, while offering a variety of modern amenities. We house an assortment of quaint specialty shops, as well as outlet stores such as: Jockey, Bass, Famous Footwear, and Coach, among others. Heap's Peak Arboretum is four miles away and California State University is within 25 miles of the property.
