The Booth
Broadcast · 1940 · Weekly
Arcades, fairgrounds, observation decks
1940s–1960s · Arcades, fairgrounds, observation decks
Broadcasts
7
Cadence
Weekly
Rated
PG
Since
1940
Episodes
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Restored broadcasts from NaN, in original transmission order.
- 1. Empire State Building Observatory · Date unknown
- 2. Unknown speaker, five-inch disc · Date unknown
- 3. Unknown speaker (levelled transfer) · Date unknown
- 01
Empire State Building Observatory
Date unknown · 1 min
Cut in the Voice-O-Graph booth on the Empire State Building observation deck. Recording held by the Internet Archive; Undated; the archive item records only the machine and the place.
- 02
Unknown speaker, five-inch disc
Date unknown · 1 min
A five- or six-inch 78rpm booth disc. The uploader notes that the speech is hard to make out “due to the resonance and reverb of the recording booth typical for these discs.” Recording held by the Internet Archive;
- 03
Unknown speaker (levelled transfer)
Date unknown · 1 min
The same disc, compressed and centred by the uploader to bring the voice forward. Recording held by the Internet Archive;
- 04
Unlabelled booth disc
Date unknown · 1 min
No label, no name, no date — the uploader records only that neither the year nor the speaker is known. Recording held by the Internet Archive;
- 05
Damaged booth disc
Date unknown · 1 min
A heavily damaged Voice-O-Graph, played anyway. Recording held by the Internet Archive;
- 06
Coin-Recordio-Gram postcard, side one
Date unknown · 1 min
A card-backed postcard disc cut at 78rpm in a coin-operated Recordio-Gram machine, made to be posted. The uploader dates the machine to after 1948. Recording held by the Internet Archive;
- 07
Coin-Recordio-Gram postcard, side two
Date unknown · 1 min
The second card of the pair. Despite the visible decay it is, in the uploader's words, the clearest recording in his collection. Recording held by the Internet Archive;
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