I really enjoy listening to the old radio shows at night just like my father and grandfather did The acting is 100%better than anything these days Bravo to all of these early day celebrities they had a lot of class back then and did there jobs so awesome!🎖
OMG! I can't believe that man was so able to speak like a child. I've heard that "kid" before in other radio plays and always thought it was a child not a full grown adult. I absolutely love the sheer extent of complexity the Foley artists convey with such innocuous gadgets to convey extremely vivid and convincing sound effects. Not to mention the number of the used for a single broadcast. I figured that one or maybe two Foley artists would have prerecorded all the audio effects and then they would have been added either in post production for transcribed plays or someone would have been waiting for cues to add them from tapes. Truly an artform you can't really appreciate until you've seen one acted out like this one has been in film.
No such thing as tape in those days. There were recorded effects on discs, and they would need a number of turntables and operators for them. Transcribed shows were done the same as "live," post-production would have been next to impossible. It wasn't until after WWII that tape recording and editing became available. It was technology captured from the Germans; an American named Jack Mullins was first to put it on the market here, and Bing Crosby was the first to make use of it.
Making an audio drama is so much fun. It breaks my heart that there aren't more people interested in this sort of thing. I tried to organize an audio story club last year on craigslist, no one was interested :-(
I posted a message on a few radio drama compilations asking if anyone would be interested in remaking some of them. I have a bunch of scripts complete with audio cues and the originals to make sure the audio effects are correct. I was born in Canada but lived in more than a few areas in England that had different accents from the ages of 4 to 18. I have a great range of voices I can do and many dialects and can pick up new ones easily. I would love to collaborate on some radio plays. reply to this message if you are still interested and we can go from there.
Thanks for posting! Absolutely love this. I’m so addicted to these old radio dramas and I’m only 39. This was real entertainment! Whole would gather in living every Friday to listen together as a family. If only todays kids would understand this and how it was the hip thing back in the day
I am listening to a podcast called .."The Whistler" and i am so inlove with this show...i sit back and imagine all of the story in my head..sound effects sound so real but I know they r props...its a thriller podcast and fantastically written scripts..
I’ll probably never see the answer but if anyone know what software this guy is talking about, let us know. Because I have some OTR that are very crappy.
There are a lot of old-time radio shows that are great to listen to. "Suspense" is a good one, as is "The Shadow", "Yours Truly Johnny Dollar", and "Escape", just to name a few. Some popular TV series, like "Gunsmoke" and "Dragnet", started out as radio series.
A gem! It's so lucky this survives, and it is beautifully done, just a hoot all the way through. Film maker jam handy always went the extra mile in his commercials and films...e.g. a tv ad for autolite done as a busby berkeley dance number all done in stop motion with 100s of different auto parts. his patience and meticulousness pay of for 21st century audiences and beyond will get to see how it used to be done.
Video of the first recorded drive-by shooting in the old west. Epic. 🤭 Excellent SFX department and great use of recorded farm animals. What a cool 😎 little movie 🎬 thank you for posting.
This reminds me of a great bit I heard on the radio once. A guy was saying that you could do things on radio that you couldn't do on TV using only sound effects. To prove it he described a scene where Lake Michigan had been drained and then filled with hot chocolate, then an army of bulldozers pushed a mountain of whipped cream into the hot chocolate, and finally the Royal Canadian Air Force flew overhead and dropped a giant cherry onto the mountain of whipped cream. Wish I could find that.
Shaggylocks--thanks for posting this. It was part of a CD I bought years ago titled Theater of the Imagination, but it was embedded on the CD, which no longer runs on modern operating systems (it was an early Mac disk). We watched this tonight in class, and right now my students are recording The Hitchhiker, Three Skeleton Key, and Sorry, Wrong Number. Great to see others interested in old time radio!
Suit and tie was the norm. They dressed no matter if cameras were there or not. Sometimes I think we are missing something with to-days casual dress. Formal dress makes you think and act differently. Usually for the better.
Here in North America, on 740Khz AM at night, they sometimes play these old shows. I think it's Zuma radio out of Canada. If you're in the area, tune in, sit back in a comfortable chair and let your imagination be the theater screen.
How ingenious. First time seeing anything like this. Very interesting and enlightening. This was produced when my parents were 22 and 20 years old. Great post.
I have been putting on Radio Dramas for years now. You can get a lot of great scripts on line. People love them if you do them live and perform them like this. We do not use any recorded sound effects. My latest show will be a Richard Diamond episode 1949.
We often make the set look like an old radio station but this show we will make the set look like a detective's office. we all dress in period working professional clothing, just like the commercial, It is a lot of fun getting the timing down, seeing we only use 2 microphones.
A different time. They even dressed up BEHIND the scenes! 😮 🤓😎✌🏻 Tho the guys doing the horses gallop are funnier than the coconuts of Monty Python and the Holy Grail
I love the rain storm effect by pouring coarse sand over a ping pong ball onto some scrunched up paper. Very effective. I always thought the rain effects were prerecorded from actual rain.
What a history. If you notice the history of sound affects they made other materials. Here in the Philippines they made the ideal to this when they did on DZRH. They have drama, action and fantasy. But when i saw this video every child imagination about radio. For example The Shadow, Superman or Batman or etc are listeners to those fans we love before the birth of television. Now that's we call history
We started a "RadioDaze" club at Valencia Palms, an adult community in Delray Beach, Florida. The first show we put on included scripts for the Thin Man and Suspense, and it was lots of fun. And, we sold out for both evenings the show was held. We have a long way to go in developing sound effects but that's half the fun. If anyone has suggestions on sound effects that we can build or use, please let me know. Thanks.
This was really interesting. I didn't realize how labour-intensive it was to put on a radio show of that type, what with the actors and special effects people. (Not to mention the people that we don't see). Thanks, but did you have to give the plot away? ;-)
I love it, this is simply MAH-Vellous! I love the posse sound guys, that is so humorous to see. And the man doing the little boys voice is a real hoot!
Looks like the radio studio could have been WXYZ-Detroit. I saw young John Hodiak AND John (Tonto) Todd in the cast. 1938 was the first year Trendle began recording "The Lone Ranger", which featured a lot of the people gathered around the mike. Could that be director Charles Livingstone (the big guy with glasses) as the main voice? A great, historic film!!
The cast and crew in the "radio drama" are the same ones who worked at WXYZ in Detroit at the time- and they appeared on "THE LONE RANGER" and "THE GREEN HORNET".
did anyone else come here for inspiration on doing their own radio show? if you'd like to take part in something of the nature contact me...i do something similar to suspense!
Well, this was interesting, but not very helpful. We were hoping to find a written article describing how to make certain sound effects ts for certain things, but have been unable to find such. So, we've been watching youtube videos on old-time radio, but it really isnt helpful. We have organized a little theatee troupe, and we present old-time radio plays to live audiences. Our plays are original, but they are true to the type of radio serials from the good old days. We cannot use recorded sounds because of the limitations of our theatre. Does anyone know where we can find such information online? Or anywhere? Thank you!
If your a fan of old time radio - CBS Radio Mystery Theater, check out my channel, I am uploading the entire series, some with original commercials and news. Enjoy!
Video was too long. Halfway through it, I got hungry so I left it playing and went to the kitchen to fix my self a sandwich. But then I found out that I'm out of mayonnaise so I went to a store. There, I saw the most beautiful woman I have ever seen in my whole life. But I'm really a shy person so I took up a three-year personality development course so I can introduce my self. She was very friendly and all, but unfortunately, she has a boyfriend. So I said, all good, I'm a mature person. I want the best for her and I harbor no illusion that I am the best person for her and she seems happy with her boyfriend, so I did not bother her anymore. But we kept in touch and we became friends and I got over my crush on her. Then she broke up with her boyfriend, we drank some alcohol because of it, I told her she'll be fine and I wished her well. I still think she's the most beautiful woman in the world, but like I said, I am over my crush on her. It was like five years already when I first saw her. Besides, I am quite happy with the friendship I developed with her. It was more important than a crush. So we kept hanging out, drinking, having coffee, and all. I had a girlfriend, she started dating other guys. My girlfriend wants to live some other life without me in it, so I said, okay, I want the best for you and I want you to pursue your happiness. My lady friend and I drank alcohol about it, and she gave me the same advice I gave her when she was in that position and I became okay with the breakup immediately. But we were really drunk, so she spent the night in my apartment. I only have one bed, so you know what that means: She took the bed and I slept on the couch. But on the couch, I really can't sleep. Something was bothering me. So I tossed and turned for about three hours, then I finally can't take it anymore, I stood up and went straight to my room where she's sleeping. I approached the bed, gently sat on it and I reached for her shoulder to pull her closer to me. She stirred and woke up. She asked what's up. I told her, you know, the first time I saw you, I was watching a video and left it playing to get my self a sandwich then went to the store to get some mayo then I got distracted by life that I forgot to finish the video. She said, you know what, I've been wondering about a weird noise in your night drawer. So we opened that drawer, and lo and behold, there's my phone and this video still has two minutes of play time on it.
That man that did the little boy's voice was right on.
I really enjoy listening to the old radio shows at night just like my father and grandfather did The acting is 100%better than anything these days Bravo to all of these early day celebrities they had a lot of class back then and did there jobs so awesome!🎖
OMG! I can't believe that man was so able to speak like a child. I've heard that "kid" before in other radio plays and always thought it was a child not a full grown adult. I absolutely love the sheer extent of complexity the Foley artists convey with such innocuous gadgets to convey extremely vivid and convincing sound effects. Not to mention the number of the used for a single broadcast. I figured that one or maybe two Foley artists would have prerecorded all the audio effects and then they would have been added either in post production for transcribed plays or someone would have been waiting for cues to add them from tapes. Truly an artform you can't really appreciate until you've seen one acted out like this one has been in film.
No such thing as tape in those days. There were recorded effects on discs, and they would need a number of turntables and operators for them. Transcribed shows were done the same as "live," post-production would have been next to impossible. It wasn't until after WWII that tape recording and editing became available. It was technology captured from the Germans; an American named Jack Mullins was first to put it on the market here, and Bing Crosby was the first to make use of it.
Making an audio drama is so much fun. It breaks my heart that there aren't more people interested in this sort of thing. I tried to organize an audio story club last year on craigslist, no one was interested :-(
Let’s do it
If I had the time
I’m interested
I posted a message on a few radio drama compilations asking if anyone would be interested in remaking some of them. I have a bunch of scripts complete with audio cues and the originals to make sure the audio effects are correct. I was born in Canada but lived in more than a few areas in England that had different accents from the ages of 4 to 18. I have a great range of voices I can do and many dialects and can pick up new ones easily. I would love to collaborate on some radio plays. reply to this message if you are still interested and we can go from there.
Don't give up on that.
Thanks for posting! Absolutely love this. I’m so addicted to these old radio dramas and I’m only 39. This was real entertainment! Whole would gather in living every Friday to listen together as a family. If only todays kids would understand this and how it was the hip thing back in the day
I am listening to a podcast called .."The Whistler" and i am so inlove with this show...i sit back and imagine all of the story in my head..sound effects sound so real but I know they r props...its a thriller podcast and fantastically written scripts..
I love the Whistler and the kinda creepy intro.
Now I just look at a screen and drag any audioclip in history into the video editing software and it sounds perfect. I'm pretty grateful. -Austen
Why does this have barely any likes and no comments-
I’ll probably never see the answer but if anyone know what software this guy is talking about, let us know. Because I have some OTR that are very crappy.
Foley walkers are the great unsung heroes of radio, tv and movies.
The man who voice a child is amazing
4:45 Just ain't right.
+Guywithcrazyideas
Holy hell. I was not expecting that.
+Guywithcrazyideas maybe helium??
gonna have nightmares now
Grown men just ain't meant to move like this 6:07
He is imitating Shirley Temple!
I watched this 7 times,and I still love it!!! So cool to see how creative they were?
Me to. Never gets old
As I have listened to every single episode of Dragnet, X Minus One, Dimension X, and Sherlock Holmes radio shows, this was amazing.
This is so cool, I would love to have this kind of radio story told. The attention to detail in the sound is amazing
There are a lot of old-time radio shows that are great to listen to. "Suspense" is a good one, as is "The Shadow", "Yours Truly Johnny Dollar", and "Escape", just to name a few. Some popular TV series, like "Gunsmoke" and "Dragnet", started out as radio series.
O.M.G. ! Even though its on UA-cam I was so intrigue d and at the edge of my seat watching and listening to whole drama!!!!
A gem! It's so lucky this survives, and it is beautifully done, just a hoot all the way through. Film maker jam handy always went the extra mile in his commercials and films...e.g. a tv ad for autolite done as a busby berkeley dance number all done in stop motion with 100s of different auto parts. his patience and meticulousness pay of for 21st century audiences and beyond will get to see how it used to be done.
VERY nicely done! THANK YOU for your time and effort and for posting this for the rest of us!
A fascinating view into the past !
I think what surprises me the most is that everyone goes with a suit ...
Thanks, I have no idea why but all of a sudden I got really curious about how these shows were made.
Video of the first recorded drive-by shooting in the old west. Epic. 🤭 Excellent SFX department and great use of recorded farm animals. What a cool 😎 little movie 🎬 thank you for posting.
This reminds me of a great bit I heard on the radio once. A guy was saying that you could do things on radio that you couldn't do on TV using only sound effects. To prove it he described a scene where Lake Michigan had been drained and then filled with hot chocolate, then an army of bulldozers pushed a mountain of whipped cream into the hot chocolate, and finally the Royal Canadian Air Force flew overhead and dropped a giant cherry onto the mountain of whipped cream. Wish I could find that.
ua-cam.com/video/ppZ57EeX6vE/v-deo.html it's not as great as you remember
Stan Freberg created that. That may help you find it. Good hunting!
Fascinating. Thank you for sharing.
Shaggylocks--thanks for posting this. It was part of a CD I bought years ago titled Theater of the Imagination, but it was embedded on the CD, which no longer runs on modern operating systems (it was an early Mac disk). We watched this tonight in class, and right now my students are recording The Hitchhiker, Three Skeleton Key, and Sorry, Wrong Number. Great to see others interested in old time radio!
What a great film. I saw another film years ago about radio and background sounds effects. I love it!
thats so creative. i would love to be able to go see a live radio broadcast of an old show.
That was awesome, thank you for posting.
That car, truck at 8:22 will put a range rover to shame...
I've done sound effects just like these in performance or producing radio and TV commercials. I've never had more fun.
I couldn't agree more. Look how the kids with their boxers hanging out act.....
Suit and tie was the norm. They dressed no matter if cameras were there or not. Sometimes I think we are missing something with to-days casual dress. Formal dress makes you think and act differently. Usually for the better.
I recognize several of these voices from the Lone Ranger radio program.
I believe that who you’re talking about are the same actors and actresses.
Here in North America, on 740Khz AM at night, they sometimes play these old shows. I think it's Zuma radio out of Canada. If you're in the area, tune in, sit back in a comfortable chair and let your imagination be the theater screen.
absolutely fantastic---thanx!!
How ingenious. First time seeing anything like this. Very interesting and enlightening. This was produced when my parents were 22 and 20 years old. Great post.
I have been putting on Radio Dramas for years now. You can get a lot of great scripts on line. People love them if you do them live and perform them like this. We do not use any recorded sound effects. My latest show will be a Richard Diamond episode 1949.
We often make the set look like an old radio station but this show we will make the set look like a detective's office. we all dress in period working professional clothing, just like the commercial, It is a lot of fun getting the timing down, seeing we only use 2 microphones.
5:52 my last four brain cells during an exam
Genius ways to make sounds at that time. Looks fun too lol
So much skill
Absolutely excellent and educational video! Thank you for posting it!
that's one hell of a car.
Robert was here Got them new fangled no flat tires I reckon
My great grandparents had one when my grandma was growing up
A different time. They even dressed up BEHIND the scenes! 😮 🤓😎✌🏻 Tho the guys doing the horses gallop are funnier than the coconuts of Monty Python and the Holy Grail
Wonderful fun!
I love the rain storm effect by pouring coarse sand over a ping pong ball onto some scrunched up paper. Very effective. I always thought the rain effects were prerecorded from actual rain.
Wow! Just wow! 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽
6:30 ASMR actually started in 30's
lol
What a history. If you notice the history of sound affects
they made other materials. Here in the Philippines they made
the ideal to this when they did on DZRH. They have drama,
action and fantasy. But when i saw this video every child
imagination about radio. For example The Shadow,
Superman or Batman or etc are listeners to those fans
we love before the birth of television.
Now that's we call history
Haha, I love that they are all wearing suits while doing this. I think my favourite part was the guy preparing to hop into the box from 6:41 :D
I Really love How They're Doing About Foley sfx On The radio show
Not many shows like this anymore. I think "Prairie Home Companion" is maybe about as close as it gets.
We started a "RadioDaze" club at Valencia Palms, an adult community in Delray Beach, Florida. The first show we put on included scripts for the Thin Man and Suspense, and it was lots of fun. And, we sold out for both evenings the show was held. We have a long way to go in developing sound effects but that's half the fun. If anyone has suggestions on sound effects that we can build or use, please let me know. Thanks.
This was really interesting. I didn't realize how labour-intensive it was to put on a radio show of that type, what with the actors and special effects people. (Not to mention the people that we don't see). Thanks, but did you have to give the plot away? ;-)
I love it, this is simply MAH-Vellous! I love the posse sound guys, that is so humorous to see. And the man doing the little boys voice is a real hoot!
VERRRRY interesting!!!!...AND, COOL!!!!!!
Features the WXYZ radio cast from Detroit.
Thankyou sir.
Thanks god.
Looks like the radio studio could have been WXYZ-Detroit. I saw young John Hodiak AND John
(Tonto) Todd in the cast. 1938 was the first year Trendle began recording "The Lone Ranger", which featured a lot of the people gathered around the mike. Could that be director Charles
Livingstone (the big guy with glasses) as the main voice? A great, historic film!!
So cool
The cast and crew in the "radio drama" are the same ones who worked at WXYZ in Detroit at the time- and they appeared on "THE LONE RANGER" and "THE GREEN HORNET".
This video really makes me think about how much I appreciate my pancreas
Amazing :)
a lot of work but amazing...
If you like this try "Firesign Theater"
The guy doing the kid's voice.....! eek! D:
This is really fascinating 😊
Very interesting
I noticed that they purposely showed the Chevy going off roading and being rugged because Chevrolet sponsored that film
I wonder why, though, they show the action that is supposed to only be on the radio!
Dont know how they could keep a straight face through out that lol
Of course they were being filmed too. I doubt they're dressed so nice when the cameras aren't there.
Everybody that could dressed nice back then. It was culturally unacceptable not to dress well when going out, even to work.
Wish there more like this
super :)
just woooow, i knew folly but not as deep as this, just beutyful to look at :)
3:53 :DD
Look for "Stan Freberg- Stretching the Imagination", 'Tuber'.
the whole time i was thinking, they dont even know about WW2.....
but they even know about WW1
The fully grown guy who just DOES A CHILD'S VOICE...!?
Killers of the flower Moon
Such passion for the art. Millenials will never produce like that..
This is fascinating!
0:30 Flying V???? That was a guitar design by Ted McCarty for Gibson in the 1960s. Played by Hendrix, Schencker, Rhoads, Hetfield, Hammett, etc
Vazques state park, in California is maybe the film location
Awesome...I like the rain sound the best...this is what the government does to its people..completely bs's them
Do you have anymore videos like this with Phil Harris and Alice Faye or Yours Truly Johnny Dollar with Bob Bailey?
I absolutely love bob Bailey's stint as Johnny Dollar!
does betty know what just happened to her car?
What if you really really gotta sneeze?...
Funny!
Do you have acopy of the script? I would love to have my students try to reproduce it.
Anyone else here from the Pancreas music video?
Golly gee i love my pancreas
Weird Al Yankovic - Pancreas
yeah, can't beat rubber chickens against young men's chests for horsey sounds.
did anyone else come here for inspiration on doing their own radio show? if you'd like to take part in something of the nature contact me...i do something similar to suspense!
Una delicia !
Well, this was interesting, but not very helpful.
We were hoping to find a written article describing how to make certain sound effects ts for certain things, but have been unable to find such.
So, we've been watching youtube videos on old-time radio, but it really isnt helpful.
We have organized a little theatee troupe, and we present old-time radio plays to live audiences. Our plays are original, but they are true to the type of radio serials from the good old days.
We cannot use recorded sounds because of the limitations of our theatre.
Does anyone know where we can find such information online?
Or anywhere?
Thank you!
If your a fan of old time radio - CBS Radio Mystery Theater, check out my channel, I am uploading the entire series, some with original commercials and news. Enjoy!
'oh, poo'
04:46 WTF!!!!
4:46
@smittsteve04 I do, what ya have in mind?
Lik dis if you cry evertim
Video was too long. Halfway through it, I got hungry so I left it playing and went to the kitchen to fix my self a sandwich. But then I found out that I'm out of mayonnaise so I went to a store. There, I saw the most beautiful woman I have ever seen in my whole life. But I'm really a shy person so I took up a three-year personality development course so I can introduce my self. She was very friendly and all, but unfortunately, she has a boyfriend. So I said, all good, I'm a mature person. I want the best for her and I harbor no illusion that I am the best person for her and she seems happy with her boyfriend, so I did not bother her anymore. But we kept in touch and we became friends and I got over my crush on her. Then she broke up with her boyfriend, we drank some alcohol because of it, I told her she'll be fine and I wished her well. I still think she's the most beautiful woman in the world, but like I said, I am over my crush on her. It was like five years already when I first saw her. Besides, I am quite happy with the friendship I developed with her. It was more important than a crush. So we kept hanging out, drinking, having coffee, and all. I had a girlfriend, she started dating other guys. My girlfriend wants to live some other life without me in it, so I said, okay, I want the best for you and I want you to pursue your happiness. My lady friend and I drank alcohol about it, and she gave me the same advice I gave her when she was in that position and I became okay with the breakup immediately. But we were really drunk, so she spent the night in my apartment. I only have one bed, so you know what that means: She took the bed and I slept on the couch. But on the couch, I really can't sleep. Something was bothering me. So I tossed and turned for about three hours, then I finally can't take it anymore, I stood up and went straight to my room where she's sleeping. I approached the bed, gently sat on it and I reached for her shoulder to pull her closer to me. She stirred and woke up. She asked what's up. I told her, you know, the first time I saw you, I was watching a video and left it playing to get my self a sandwich then went to the store to get some mayo then I got distracted by life that I forgot to finish the video. She said, you know what, I've been wondering about a weird noise in your night drawer. So we opened that drawer, and lo and behold, there's my phone and this video still has two minutes of play time on it.
Amazing
nimic frumos aici
Fascinating and lots of fun. Always wanted to see "behind the mike." Thanks for sharing.
naeyli☺