OTRR-certified Soldiers of the Press v1.2 (1 CD) is available for download from Dropbox or OneDrive. Thanks to all those who made this collection possible.
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Soldiers of the Press is a war drama that was created in New York and syndicated by World Broadcasting System. Little is known about the series or the total number of episodes. Each episode is 15 minutes long and retold a recent news story from action during World War II. The series was narrated by actors portraying United Press correspondents including Walter Cronkite, Harrison Salisbury and many lesser knowns such as Ralph Teatsorth and Ann Stringer. The show was broadcast in syndication from 1942 to 1945. There are at least 40 episodes in circulation out of the 148 known to exist.
For an insider’s view of the show from Walter Cronkite click on July 21, 2003: 'Soldiers of the Press' at http://www.npr.org/news/specials/cronkite/
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OTRR-certified Academy Award v4.0 (5 CDs/3.01 GiB) is available for download from Dropbox or OneDrive. Thanks to all those who made this collection possible.
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From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Academy Award was a CBS radio anthology series which presented 30-minute adaptations of plays, novels or films.
Rather than adaptations of Oscar-winning films, as the title implied, the series offered "Hollywood's finest, the great picture plays, the great actors and actresses, techniques and skills, chosen from the honor roll of those who have won or been nominated for the famous golden Oscar of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences."
With that as a guideline, any drama could be presented as long as the cast included at least one Oscar nominated performer. For example, Robert Nathan's 1940 novel Portrait of Jennie was not released as a film until 1949. David O. Selznick, having acquired the rights to Nathan's novel in 1944, was spending much time and money in his efforts to bring it to the screen. Thus, Academy Award's December 4, 1946 adaptation of Portrait of Jennie, with John Lund and Oscar-winner Joan Fontaine, had a promotional aspect, concluding with host/announcer Hugh Brundage revealing, "Portrait of Jennie is soon to be a Selznick International picture starring Jennifer Jones and Joseph Cotten."
The program initially aired on Saturdays at 7pm(et) through June, then moved to Wednesdays at 10pm(et). Frank Wilson scripted the 30-minute adaptations for producer-director Dee Englebach, and Leith Stevens provided the music. The sound effects crew included Gene Twombly, Jay Roth, Clark Casey and Berne Surrey.
The series began March 30, 1946, with Bette Davis, Anne Revere and Fay Bainter in Jezebel. On that first show, Jean Hersholt spoke as president of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, welcoming the E.R. Squibb & Sons pharmaceutical company ("The House Of Squibb") as the program's sponsor. It was an expensive show to produce since the stars cost $4000 a week, and another $1600 went each week to the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences for the use of their name in the show's title. This eventually became a factor in Squibb's decision to cancel the series after only 39 weeks.
Dramas in which actors recreated their original film roles included Henry Fonda in Young Mr. Lincoln, Humphrey Bogart in The Maltese Falcon, Cary Grant in Suspicion, Gregory Peck in The Keys of the Kingdom and Ronald Colman in Lost Horizon. However, of the 39 episodes, only six actors recreated their own Oscar-winning roles: Fay Bainter, Bette Davis, Paul Lukas, Victor McLaglen, Paul Muni and Ginger Rogers.
The series ended December 18, 1946, with Margaret O'Brien and one of the series' frequent supporting players, Jeff Chandler (appearing under his real name, Ira Grossel) in Lost Angel.
Change Log:
v. 4 changes
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v. 3.1 changes
- added 2 files in Documents
- corrected episode file names
- added 2 new audio briefs
- deleted log
- updated CD art
- renamed show as Academy Award per name announced on each show
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v 3 changes
- upgraded sound encodes for 6 programs
- added script for 46-07-03 The Maltese Falcon
- added Hear It Now Program in extras
- deleted Academy Awards Ceremony 40-xx-xx 12th Annual (Partial) as mislabeled, deleted Awards Ceremony files where the only file was one song
- deleted web page files that did not load properly in browsers
- corrected dates and labels of various extra files
- deleted Warner Brothers Academy Theater programs
