Project Audion is an exciting, pioneering project where old-fashioned radio drama meets new-fangled videoconference technology. Listen and watch episodes of classic radio shows performed in the old style with live actors and sound effects -- performing separately together in different cities across North America.
We obtained a scan of the original 1938 script for this show, so what you hear is what was on the page. I can see your point - the abridged script on the LP gets to the heart of the matter (if you will) much quicker. There's an awful lot of cackling laughter in this one. Having now read a number of lost Arch Oboler "Lights Out" scripts, it seems to me he could sometimes come up with a cool hook - "ie: What if we turned someone inside out?" - but then was challenged to flesh out a full half hour of drama from it. (and I'll cut him some slack because of the challanges of writing/casting/producing/directing a new show every week!) In any event, the full version needed doing after all this time.
You guys rock! I am an ardent fan of OTR and Damon Runyon in particular. Your love of the genre are all over this. The sounds, the tight script, and Broadway and Rosie, audacular! More, more, please!
Project Audion...GREAT WORK!!! We hope that while we are doing original plays in the style of O.T.R., we love your recreations of these classic lost programs. Between you, us, and many others, we are ALL trying to keep "imagination" alive and well, even in the 21st Century! Cannot wait to hear your next production! Hopefully, you might check our series out as well.
Adding to the Fall River legend, the April 1958 issue of Magazine Of Fantasy And Science Fiction introduced a story by Victoria Lincoln saying she grew up in the town and her Mom told her not to play with "Old Miss Borden, because she was not kind to her parents..."
Just subbed to your channel, Bat-Supe. My channel (formerly known as the Sole Twin Audio Network - which you can still find on Spotify) also produced OTR recreations....mostly Suspense and that sort of thing. :)
As a fan of The Jack Benny Program, thanks to recordings I've found over the years, superb re-creation of the sound design of the show, and performances by the cast.
thanks for the positive review. We put a lot of effort into all aspects of the show, from the scripting to the "live audience" (which our actors actually hear while performing) and it's good to know it pays off.
This is SO good. Well written & acted. Just like listening 2 the real show. Such great detail even the mention of Mary’s sister Babe. Well done, everyone!
@@rongrayson7591Buffalo's WKBW radio station did its own "War of the Worlds", set in Buffalo, NY, a few times. Despite a 2-week publicity campaign that also involved notifying local emergency services and the telephone company, that the show would be fictional, in case any listeners might believe it was real, the show still panicked many locals, for the same reason the original was so convincing: It used current broadcasting formats and technology. But the WKBW version also used its own on-air personalities, playing themselves. Anchorman Irv Weinstein was especially convincing, because he'd been a radio actor when he was a child. The show also caused the Canadian Army to station troops along Canada's border with NY state. Though, this was probably in case the show caused a flood of people trying to flee to Canada to escape the aliens.
I loved the added background record noise in the production. It added to the authenticity. I also appreciate the information at the beginning of the show explaining that these show are from a different time and would be written differently today. It is important to preserve the historical significance of these broadcasts without changing it to meet the updated views of today. We can learn much from this broadcasts of yesterday. With that being said, there were strict standards on the Lone Ranger Show to teach children right from wrong. It taught about helping others and accepting other people. Yes, the language of the time was pigeon English but it also taught about a white man and a Native American being brothers and fighting for justice. I have seen the rules of the Lone Ranger Show that were put in place to teach children moral lessons. In a way, it was a crude Sesame Street of its day. Thank you for bringing this production to light.
Thanks for the perceptive comments and your good ears! It seemed like this show deserved to sound like it had been recovered from 90 years ago and not like it was recorded yesterday. It's quite clear that the Lone Ranger creators understood fairly earlier that they needed to present a proper moral hero to their young listeners, and this is reflected in the stories and characters.
The creator of the Lone Ranger also published the Lone Ranger Creed. -- The Lone Ranger's Creed By Fran Striker 1. I believe that to have a friend, a man must be one. 2. That all men are created equal and that everyone has within himself the power to make this a better world. 3. That God put the firewood there, but that every man must gather and light it himself. 4. In being prepared physically, mentally, and morally to fight when necessary for that which is right. 5. That a man should make the most of what equipment he has. 6. That "this government, of the people, by the people, and for the people," shall live always. 7. That men should live by the rule of what is best for the greatest number. 8. That sooner or later... somewhere... somehow... we must settle with the world and make payment for what we have taken. 9. That all things change, but the truth, and the truth alone lives on forever. 10. I believe in my Creator, my country, my fellow man.
