| Show Mid milestones milestone estone s of history re recorded c corded in sound 1 V at bf B f h jj T v H ra w rw 9 jk j by records in new yorks radio C city ity by HOPE by western newspaper union NEW YORK in a small dark room in a corner of a tall building in now new yorks ill radio city adolf hitler shouts bitterly against the Bil british baltish tish empire prime minister Mi win winston aton churchill retorts vigorously that his country will not yield yael aan an inch pope pape pius XII prays for peace franklin D roosevelt takes the oath of the office for a third term as president of tho the united states the dionne quin ing oh johnny oh the sitting setting is tho the record library of the national broadcasting company stored away in that little roo room m in tall stacks of tin contain 1 ers are more than tran transcriptions scrip of virtually every phase of history 1 awaiting only the push of a button and the scratch of a nee needle die to bring them to life for tomor tomorrows rowls historians and students the value of the library cannot be mei measured in dollar sits treasures rival those of a dozen captain kidds and in years to comes come students historians ticho scholars lars e educators and journalists will be a able ble to use the library just as contemporary writers use libraries and museums and newspaper morgues voices Embi emotions lons important takes take for example a journalist in the year 1987 who is sweating over a series of columns on the second world war newspaper files magazines books scholarly dissertations will pro provide vidi him with the bisic basic facts abut but what about the actual voices of hitler mussolini roosevelt churchill oye oe witnesses and what about the emotions and tetona tlona which printed words bordi dont convey in ili I 1 tiny grooves he fib will find the tha complete story told from dugout and underground studios amid the crash of bursting bombs the scream of air raid sirens the ominous silence of the th eForest Foiest of filst historians 0 of the future will aiu be able to hear the whole story from that most dramatic day in broadcastings broadcasting sunday september 3 1029 1939 cheh a s tired spoken gentleman announced with regret to a grieving world that the government of great britain was at war with the 0 A W nil 01 a W k 0 o playing back it a broadcast a few minutes after it has gone off the air Is a an easy matter one on side ld of the th record will contain an hour show i because of the th aluminum shortage short aee only pickups from abroad and broadcasts of a controversial nature are ar recorded crded re on acetate ace tatti others are recorded on little rolls of film ot german nation and the subsequent replies of dictators hitler and mussolini they will hear chamberlain ie resigning signing from office and winston churchill the new prime minister resolving tonight to fight on despite the entailing blood and sweat and toll toil and tears non yon nonmilitary military history and since tho the lost last decade of our civilization has not beca a story of wa war alone valone historians will be able to review other milestones in outlives our oun lives momentous events in nearly all phases of 61 life can be resurrected through these disks here ore are a few other chunks of history recorded on acetate Religion The coronation of pope plus XI 1 the pontifical mass for his successor jelus XII science the voices and thoughts of marconi wireless inventor in his broadcasts of 1935 and 1938 1930 the report of an e expedition X tion directly from the Amazon amazonian lan jungles the picard expedit expedition iori of 1933 into the stratosphere aeronautics the round the world flight of howard hughes as reported by ground gromad observers and by hughes hims himself elfi from his plane catastrophes the salvaging of the ill fated subr submarine narine alus from the bottom of bf the ocean on off portsmouth N H the ohio river ricer floods sports football and baie baseball ball games golf tournaments the olympic 11 games politics conventions inaugurations debates superior to printed word Jam packed with acetate disks the tall piles of tin contal containers ners in record library are in some ways more valuable than the other basic source of historical matter the printed word for since the recording of a historical situation presents the actual scene literally and without interpretation the listener Is made an ear witness winess to the goings on and placed in a position to pass objectively on what happened because special event broadcasting is taken pretty much for granted irmay it ma be hard to conceive concel the ref arence value to coming generations of this collection of recordings the worth might be more fully realized by looking further into the past think how they would be cherished if there were records of lin coans gettysburg address and the lincoln douglas debates the surrender of the british arbyto wash ington it at yorktown napoleons talks to his soldiers and robert ful tons first steamboat trip up the ahe hudson river the acetate recordings mentioned have an aluminum base with the nations defense production in full swing non defense consumption of aluminum is being curtailed cuc tailed therefore only pickups from abroad and broadcasts of a controversial nature are now recorded on acetate all al other recordings of broadcasts are recorded on little rolls roll of film which can replayed be played back in a ire re cordo graph A day daylong long schedule of I 1 broadcasts occupies but a short film roll record overseas broadcasts overseas broadcasts are recorded on memo vox larg flexible celluloid platters one side records an hour bour long show As the years roll on students historians to scholars educators and journalists will find delving into by gone days much easier radios record library does docs away with the arduous task of searching for official papers m manuscripts letters di diaries arles broadsides broad sides pamphlets newspapers magn magazines and volumes of transactions instead of dead documents tomorrows historians can refer to 60 living records record si cutting a record front from the air this ibis one Is an acetate disc with aluminum platter base it is essential that an even volume be main talked throughout the recording |
