Re: Radio's Missing Masters
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Larry Maupin
Thank you Bill. Every time I click on a link to otrcat I get the same message: "Sorry, OTRCAT.com is currently unavailable." This has been the case for months. If you or anyone else can get a link that works perhaps you would like to purchase the set there and make it available to all members of our group, which could lead to the shows being placed on the Internet Archive. I am concerned, however, that the owner may have retired or even died.
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I am grateful for your reply. Larry ----------------------------------------- From: "Bill Hartig"To: main@OldTimeRadioResearchers.groups.io Cc: Sent: Wednesday August 12 2020 9:17:04PM Subject: Re: [OldTimeRadioResearchers] Radio's Missing Masters From: Larry Maupin
Sent: Wednesday, August 12, 2020 6:30 PM
To: 'main@OldTimeRadioResearchers.groups.io'
Subject: Re: [OldTimeRadioResearchers] Radio's Missing
Masters Thank
you Barbara. The otrcat link doesn't work, but if people want to pay a
dealer for them that is all right. I have not found them for sale
anywhere, including Radio Spirits, which I thought might have been the source of
the cassettes I received from another collector. If anyone in the group
wants to purchase them and upload them to the Internet Archive as a set, that
would might be a good and inexpensive solution that would allow thousands of
other OTR enthusiasts to enjoy them free of charge.
Larry ----------------------------------------- From: "B. J. Watkins"To: "main@OldTimeRadioResearchers.groups.io" Cc: Sent: Wednesday August 12 2020 1:37:30PM Subject: Re: [OldTimeRadioResearchers] Radio's Missing Masters Larry,
$40 to digitize one cassette is outrageous. Many if not all of these shows are
in many collectors' hands if they wanted them. You could buy CDs or digital
copies from any number of dealers and get them in wav, flac or high encodes of
mp3s. If top quality isn't important to you and just want the enjoyment of
listening to them then, for $5.00, you could buy them from here:
Barbara
From: main@OldTimeRadioResearchers.groups.io
<main@OldTimeRadioResearchers.groups.io> on behalf of Larry Maupin
<lmaupin@...>
Sent: Wednesday, August 12, 2020 10:17 AM To: 'OTRRPurchasingGroup@OldTimeRadioResearchers.groups.io' <OTRRPurchasingGroup@OldTimeRadioResearchers.groups.io>; 'main@oldtimeradioresearchers.groups.io' <main@oldtimeradioresearchers.groups.io> Subject: [OldTimeRadioResearchers] Radio's Missing Masters Hello to everyone. I would like to open a subject for discussion and
would appreciate advice and comments from all members who have an interest in
and knowledge about the subject of this message. Recently I acquired 18
cassette tapes labeled "Radio's Missing Masters." The person who sent them
said that they were obtained years ago as a boxed set from a dealer. Do
you think it would be a good project for us to place them on the Internet
Archive as a set providing that they are not already available to listen to free
of charge on the Archive or somewhere else?
I do not have the entire set, but as you will see below there are probably
enough episodes to make a good start.
So far I have searched the OTRR Library collection and the "Singles and
Doubles" set for series titles and have found some. What follows is a list
of episodes and dates as well as any notations that appear on the labels.
I will include only those which I did not find in the search:
The Judge (2/13/52). Audition.
The Humphrey Bogart Theater (9/17/48). Audition.
Safari (1950s). "First and only existing show."
Once Upon a Midnight (5/11/45). "First and only existing
show."
The Private Practice of Dr. Dana (12/21/47). "Earliest of five
existing Shows."
Escape (9/18/47). "One of three from NBC."
Emotion (7/8/49). "Audition and only show."
Mulligan's Travels (6/8/49). Audition.
The Clyde Beatty Show (1940s). "Premier."
Crime Correspondent (10/21/49). "Audition and only show."
Action Eighty (3/26/52). Audition
Operation Danger (6/25/50). Audition
The Green Lama (5/17/49). Audition.
T-Man (4/29/49) Audition.
Half Hour To Kill (10/29/46). Audition.
The Bob Burns Show (11/25/47). Audition.
My Mother's Husband (5/4/50) Audition
Action (1/15/44) Audition.
June's My Girl (10/4/48). Audition.
Three for Adventure 1940s). Audition.
Christopher London (1950s).
The Case of Mr. Ace. "Premier."
Martin Kane, Private Detective (10/29/53). "Only existing
episode."
The Fat Man (1/21/50). "Premiere."
Bunco Squad (4/15/50). "Rehearsal."
Here Comes McBride (5/19/49). "Premiere."
I am going to do something with these. Here are some options: (1) It
costs $40 to have one cassette digitized, so I could have my local business do
five at a time and just send them to Ryan and have him provide a link to both
groups, since I have given up on trying to share them with everybody by
uploading them; (2) I could send them to David and Pete if they would like to
distro them to the Purchasing Group; (3) The cost might be less if I buy a dual
cassette recorder, make copies of all of the tapes, and mail them to Ryan, David
or Pete. That might actually be the most fun, and would not take as long
as having five digitized every couple of months until all of them are
done. The disadvantage would be that the recipient of the cassettes I dub
would still need to have them digitized.
If anyone replies to this message with an opinion about whether this
project is worth undertaking by one of our groups, information about how many of
these episodes have already been digitized and are available to all OTR
enthusiasts to listen to free of charge, and advice about how best to make the
rest of them on my list (if there are any left) available to all, I will be
grateful and will take every comment into careful consideration and reply
respectfully if a reply seems appropriate.
This could lead to another graduating class for the Internet Archive, but
it will take some time and I hope to have a lot of fun along the way, and
perhaps we can accomplish something of substance to further the groups's
mission.
Larry.
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