War Of The Worlds
1938 — Orson Welles
radio broadcast (wiki)
The Halloween Night hoax horrified radio listeners in all the Northeastern United States.
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Soon after losing its Atomic Virginity, the Earth was introduced to the first fashion inspired by the bomb. The smallest (ITSY-BITSY) swimwear ever dared was seen in 1947. They called it the Bikini, named for the small atoll (island) in the South Pacific where the United States conducted its post-WWII nuclear testing. [Hiroshima/Nagasaki]
RADIO DAYS — Written, Directed, and Narrated by Woody Allen. The film is the memory of a family living in Brooklyn, New York during the GOLDEN AGE OF RADIO. (RADIO DAYS TRAILER)
The Winds Of War (1983) Mini-Series
War And Remembrance (1988) Mini-Series
The Longest Day (1962) Movie
Combat (1962) TV Drama
Hogan’s Heroes (1965-1971) TV Comedy
Kelly’s Heroes (1970) Movie
Band Of Brothers (2001) Mini-Series
BILOXI BLUES (1988)
BRIGHTON BEACH MEMOIRS
SUMMER OF ’42
CLASS OF ’44
McHale’s Navy (1962-1966) TV Comedy
PEARL HARBOR (2001) TRAILER
TOKYO ROSE (1943)
IMPORTANT PICTURES IN TIME
Stardust
Glenn Miller
1927 —
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“Dance” b/ Aaron Douglas (1930)
1898 — War Of The Worlds
H. G. Wells (Father of Science Fiction)
Time Machine (1895)
Nineteen Eighty Four (1949)
George Orwell
A Renaissance In Harlem
RADIO DAYS (EUROPE)
RADIO DAYS (PACIFIC)
Hollywood BC
Before the Christian Code
Duke Ellington
Mae West (Pre-Code Moxy)
Cab Calloway (Reefer Man)
Orson Welles (War Of The Worlds)
Mata Hari (The Black Widow)
Adolf Hitler (Nazi Rise)
Jesse Owens (Black Olympian)
Jim Thorpe (Native)
Jack Johnson (White Hope)
Hollywood’s Golden Age (1927-1960) — The history of cinema in the United States can trace its roots to the East Coast where, at one time, Fort Lee, New Jersey, was the motion-picture capital of America. The industry got its start at the end of the 19th century with the construction of Thomas Edison‘s “Black Maria“, the first motion-picture studio in West Orange, New Jersey. The cities and towns on the Hudson River and Hudson Palisades offered land at costs considerably less than New York City across the river and benefited greatly as a result of the phenomenal growth of the film industry at the turn of the 20th century.
Dazed & Confused
Led Zeppelin
1969 — Led Zeppelin I
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HARLEM RENAISSANCE
HARLEM RENAISSANCE ARTISTS
RADIO DAYS (EUROPE)
RADIO DAYS (PACIFIC)
RADIO DAYS
RADIO DAYS TRAILER (1987)
Written, Directed, and Narrated by Woody Allen. The film is a memory of a family living in Brooklyn, New York during the Golden Age of Radio.
JAZZ
2001 — Ken Burns‘ JAZZ was a thematic and chronological story of Jazz, from it’s creation at the turn of the 20th Century, and following its evolution into the 1960s, when Miles Davis defined Cool, and was on the verge of creating the next evolution of Jazz called Fusion.
Burn’s makes entertaining use of vintage photographs to lead a viewer on a musical journey through American History. Telling the personal stories of the innovative musicians who did much to influence the sound of American music.
The sound heard ’round the World.
1940s — American music, like music everywhere, was evolving and changing with the times, especially as the United States entered the Second World War. The popular white jazz musicians of the day, including:
Benny Goodman
Glenn Miller
Artie Shaw
Woody Herman
Tommy and Jimmy Dorsey
introduced black arrangements into their compositions and scores, moving Jazz into the Big Band period of the 1940s.
Large bands, made up of a mix of black and white musicians, toured the United States and filled the radio with the music called Swing.
Duke Ellington
Louis Armstrong
Two Harlem Renaissance leaders, Duke Ellington and Louis Armstrong are central figures in Burn’s film (series), that later discusses the important contributions of:
Charlie Parker
Dizzy Gillespie
Miles Davis
Ornette Coleman
John Coltrane
to all forms of Jazz…
Be-Bop
Straight-Ahead
Free
Cool.
All but the last (10th) episode are devoted to music written, played, and produced before 1961.
The series was produced by Florentine Films in cooperation with the BBC and WETA-TV, Washington D.C. (Saving Fusion for a Later Time)
James Van Der Zee, Garveyite Family, Harlem (1924)
printed 1974, gelatin silver print, Corcoran Collection (Gift of Eric R. Fox), 2015.19.4388
DecaDance
Living Colour
2009 — Chair In The Doorway
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Uptown Funk
Bruno Mars (w/Mark Ronson)
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CoLors*…
This is a Voyage into Sound.
inst. of change [THE ELECTRIC GUITAR]
the players
INSTRUMENTS OF NOISE.
take it to the bridge
The Original Color of Sin [BLUE.]