Voices of the Silent Screen
On the air · 1957 · Fortnightly
CBC / BBC Scotland / syndicated
CBC / BBC Scotland / syndicated · 1957–1969
Broadcasts
4
Cadence
Fortnightly
Rated
PG
Since
1957
The run
- Network
- CBC / BBC Scotland / syndicated
- Years active
- 1957–1969
- Surviving broadcasts
- 4
- Genre
- talk
Interviews in which the pioneers of the screen speak in their own voices. Mary Pickford talks to CBC Radio on 25 May 1959 about Toronto, her rise to silent stardom and founding United Artists with Chaplin, Fairbanks and D. W. Griffith. Lillian Gish talks to Howard Lockhart about herself and the early days of the movies. Stan Laurel was recorded at his Malibu home on 14 August 1957 by Arthur Friedman for the radio series Turning Point. Groucho Marx faces the British press in London in June 1965, ahead of his ITV series. Public-domain transfers held by the Internet Archive.
Source collection
Internet Archive audio collections
Rights
Public domain — no renewed US copyright
Cataloguing
Air dates and notes from the Archive item record
The shape of the run
What survives, year by year
0 dated broadcasts across 13 years on the air, with 13 years where nothing is known to survive. Brightness is transfer quality; empty cells are months lost to time.
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