Subject: [removed] Digest V2005 #374
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Date: 12/5/2005 10:19 AM
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                            The Old-Time Radio Digest!
                              Volume 2005 : Issue 374
                         A Part of the [removed]!
                             [removed]
                                 ISSN: 1533-9289


                                 Today's Topics:

  Vintage radio books for the blind no  [ Tony Baechler <tony@[removed]; ]
  Re: rsistor Color Code                [ "kdkalit" <kdkalit@[removed]; ]
  Super Solderer                        [ Conrad Binyon <conradab@[removed] ]
  Defining The Limits.                  [ "Stephen A Kallis, Jr" <skallisjr@j ]
  radio show structure                  [ ".dan." <ddunfee@[removed]; ]
  Twilight zone, can we talk            [ ".dan." <ddunfee@[removed]; ]
  Re: resistor correction               [ Fred Berney <fsberney@[removed]; ]
  12-5 births/deaths                    [ Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed]; ]

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Date: Sun, 4 Dec 2005 11:06:45 -0500
From: Tony Baechler <tony@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  Vintage radio books for the blind now
 available

Hello,

I thought people on this list, especially other blind subscribers, might be
interested in this.  Baechler Productions has donated the funds to make
twenty-two books about various aspects of vintage radio available to the
blind via [removed]  The full announcement is a little long so I'll
just post the link here.  Please feel free to contact me off list if you
have any questions or comments.  This is not a commercial announcement, we
are making no money from this and are not selling copies of the books.

For the full press release, go to [removed]

For the full list of books which will eventually be online for download,
please go to [removed]

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Date: Sun, 4 Dec 2005 12:54:12 -0500
From: "kdkalit" <kdkalit@[removed];
To: <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  Re: rsistor Color Code

Fred Berney wrote

Luckily, I don't think blue is one of the color on a resistor. Just
purple or violet.

Fred, there is in fact a "Blue" It's between Green and Violet and has a
value of 6.
and represented by "But" in the old help aid.  Ken  :-)

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Date: Sun, 4 Dec 2005 18:41:33 -0500
From: Conrad Binyon <conradab@[removed];
To: Old Time Radio Digest <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  Super Solderer

Fred Berney <fsberney@[removed]; wrote:

...referring to his slight colorblind distinguishing
dificulties:

I remember as a kid running to my mother and asking her to tell me
the colors on a resistor, I built a lot of Heath Kits and Elco Kits that way.

Heath Kit building!  I, too, built a few Heath Kits
during my 
days in the USAF, assigned to the 39th Fighter
Interceptor Squadron, at Komaki, Japan.  Can you
imagine?  This had to be prior to the the electronic
boom occuring in the country otherwise why would we
have to resort to building our own electronic
equipment from kits instead of just buying them on the
economy?  However I remember building first an a high
wattage amplifier to run a stereo record system, plus
the stereo receiver, followed by a AM/FM radio
receiver.   I became so enamored with the process,
that later on, stationed now in Florida, when my
native born French spouse went home to visit her
family, I sent for and built my own color TV set.  The
naked chassis and tube sat out on a low table until
the time I ordered the wooden cabinet it fitted into. 
 I enjoyed those experiences you can bet.

---
conradab@[removed] (Conrad A. Binyon)
Encino, CA  
Home of the Stars who loved Ranches and Farms

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Date: Sun, 4 Dec 2005 18:42:43 -0500
From: "Stephen A Kallis, Jr" <skallisjr@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  Defining The Limits.

Bill H, speaking of "restoring" antique radios, notes,

I have seen cases where the original chassis was replaced with a
transistor set, one or two somewhat well done, but most were
butchered/hack jobs. Either way it destroys the value of the antique
radio.

I put the "restoring" in quotes, since it really isn't, nor did Bill H.
say that it was.  However, this brings up a couple of points.  Suppose an
antique has a really messy inside, and someone takes a transistor radio
and places it atop the antique, with leads from its output
alligator-clipped to the console's speaker terminals?  People could still
listen to a broadcast without any surgery on the original electronics.
How would this affect purists?

Also, a few years ago, I saw a radio premium so covered with corrosion
that its brass exterior was literally black.  I pointed out to the dealer
that its appearance could be remarkably improved by using Brasso or
equivalent to remove the corrosion.  The guy went ballistic.  The thought
of disturbing even one iota of the accumulated crud was, to him,
sacrilege.  Now, possibly for a thousand-year-old coin, that might make
some sense.  But for a radio premium?

Perhaps I'm underreacting?

Stephen A. Kallis, Jr.

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Date: Sun, 4 Dec 2005 18:42:34 -0500
From: ".dan." <ddunfee@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  radio show structure

I'm interested to know how the structure of a radio show evolved.  By that
I mean the way music is integrated into openings and closings and as scene
dividers and also the way commercial breaks came to be a part of all this.

We hear them on tv also with visual information to signal these kinds of
movements. Obviously tv just borrowed what radio had developed and added
the visual effects.

Movies are one place that seems a likely source to see origins of all of
this but it does not explain how radio show structure evolved. Were movie
serials an origin also?  Was the structure of vaudeville acts a part also?
It is my understanding that what we call commercials were also integrated
into them as act dividers.

Is there an evolution over time from the first shows to what became
familiar that one can look for and what might be examples?  When did
scripts start to include what is now called "product placement"?

                               XB
                                IC|XC

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Date: Sun, 4 Dec 2005 18:45:08 -0500
From: ".dan." <ddunfee@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  Twilight zone, can we talk

A local station has started to have the twilight zone programs right after
"when radio was" on some nights.  The contrast between them is dramatic,
pun intended.  In short the zone "zones" me out and I have never finished
listening to one.

First the music never stops and becomes a source of "noise" and dulls any
dramatic effect it might lend at points of emotional content as the old
shows used it.

Second the reading of the scripts seems to be surrealistic, if that is the
right description, with the "edges" all smoothed down and with little
contrast in delivery and emotional impact. All of them have this so it must
be a decision of the directors and not the actors.

The story lines are fine, not unlike the tv scripts.  All of this drives me
bonkers and is a source of great disappointment. Comments please.

                               XB
                                IC|XC

[ADMINISTRIVIA: Please make your comments directly to the author, as the
contemporary Twilight Zone series isn't really on-topic for the Digest.
--cfs3]

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Date: Mon, 5 Dec 2005 00:10:39 -0500
From: Fred Berney <fsberney@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  Re: resistor correction

At 11:04 AM 12/4/2005, you wrote:
teacher was more descriptive. But anyway, you had the colors correct
the first time. Black, Brown, Red, Orange, Yellow, Green, Violet, and White

Roby McHone reminded me that there was the color blue in the code. So
it should have read

Bad Boys Violate Our Young Girls, But Violet Gives Willingly

Black, Brown, Red, Orange, Yellow, Green, Blue, Violet, Gray, White

Then there is the music scale.

FACE and Every Good Boy Does Fine

It is amazing what trivia the brain continues to store. But don't ask
me what I did two days ago.

Fred
Check us out for old time radio & TV shows & Movie Serials
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Date: Mon, 5 Dec 2005 07:55:45 -0500
From: Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed];
To: Olde Tyme Radio List <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  12-5 births/deaths

December 5th births

12-05-1886 - Rose Wilder Lane - De Smet, SD - d. 10-30-1968
writer: (Daughter of Laura Ingalls Wilder) "Hallmark Hall of Fame"; "Helen
Hayes Theatre"
12-05-1890 - Fritz Lang - Vienna, Austria - d. 8-2-1976
film director: "Bud's Bandwagon"
12-05-1892 - Al Boasberg - Buffalo, NY - d. 6-18-1937
writer: "Jack Benny Program"
12-05-1901 - Grace Moore - Jellico, TN - d. 1-26-1947
opera singer: "General Motors Concerts"; "Speed Show"; "Vicks Open House"
12-05-1901 - Walt Disney - Chicago, IL - d. 12-15-1966
actor: Mickey Mouse "Mickey Mouse Theatre of the Air"
12-05-1903 - Fred Van Deventer - Tipton, IN - d. 12-2-1971
newscaster, panelist: "Vandeventer and the News"; "Twenty Questions"
12-05-1904 - Harold Huber - New York, NY - d. 9-29-1959
actor: Hercule Poirot "Hercule Poirot"; Fu Manchu "Shadow of Fu Manchu"
12-05-1906 - Otto Preminger - Vienna, Austria - d. 4-23-1986
actor, film producer, director: "Fun In Print"; "Listen to the People"
12-05-1906 - William Spier - d. 5-30-1973
producer, director: "Advs. of Sam Spade"; "Suspense"
12-05-1907 - Reid Kilpatrick - Michigan - d. 8-11-1983
host: "Quiz of Two Cities"
12-05-1918 - Ralph Blizard - Kingsport, TN - d. 12-3-2004
fiddler: At age 12 formed "The Southern Ramblers"; Appeared on many Tri-cities
radio stations
12-05-1922 - Alan Freed - Johnstown, PA - d. 1-20-1965
disc jockey: "Moondog Show"; "Alan Freed Show"; "Camel Rock and Roll Party"

December 5th deaths

02-18-1920 - Howard Rodman - New York - d. 12-5-1985
writer: "The American School of the Air"
03-09-1914 - Fred Clark - Lincoln, CA - d. 12-5-1968
actor: "This Is Your FBI"; "Amos 'n' Andy Show"
05-06-1900 - Dave Elman - Park River, ND - d. 12-5-1967
emcee: (The Dean of American Hobbyists) "Hobby Lobby"
05-08-1915 - John Archer (Ralph Bowman) - Lincoln, NE - d. 12-5-1999
actor: Lamont Cranston/Shadow "The Shadow"; "Gateway to Hollywood"
06-18-1897 - Henry Wadsworth - Maysville, KY - d. 12-5-1974
actor: Alabama Randall "Jane Arden"
07-24-1802 - Alexandre Dumas - Aisne, France - d. 12-5-1870
writer: "The Count of Monte Cristo" based on Dumas' novel
09-15-1923 - Arvell Shaw - St. Louis, MO - d. 12-5-2002
jazz bassist: "Floor Show"; "Damon Runyon Memorial Concert"; "Jubilee"
12-07-1906 - Fred Stewart - Atlanta, GA - d. 12-5-1970
actor: "The Columbia Workshop"
--
Ron Sayles
Milwaukee, Wisconsin

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