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    612-822-4611

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Radio Live! Television Live!: Those Golden Days When Horses Were Coconuts

Radio Live! Television Live!: Those Golden Days When Horses Were Coconuts

Mott, Robert L.

Paperback

RadioTelevisionGeneral Drama

ISBN10: 0786418125
ISBN13: 9780786418121
Publisher: McFarland & Company
Published: Dec 25 2003
Pages: 234
Weight: 0.94
Height: 0.57 Width: 6.90 Depth: 10.84
Language: English

During the golden age of live radio and television, writers, performers, and producers created their programs in an environment far different from the studios of today. With live programming, anything could happen, and often did. Robert L. Mott, a veteran writer and Emmy-nominated sound effects creator of the live era, recreates the days when television and radio programs were performed live. He includes personal reminiscences as well as a forthright look behind the microphones: horses' hooves were played by coconuts, African-American women were played by white males, and television actors might ad lib an entire program that didn't go as planned. Celebrities like Red Skelton and Jackie Gleason, as well as the unsung heroes in the sound booth and backstage, step up to the mike here. Behind-the-scenes photographs are also included in this account of the exciting--but not always glamorous--world that was live on the air.

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