Movie Previews on the Air
Syndicated
Syndicated · 1933–1943
Broadcasts
171
Cadence
Twice weekly
Rated
PG
Since
1933
The run
- Network
- Syndicated
- Years active
- 1933–1943
- Surviving broadcasts
- 171
- Genre
- variety
Studio trailers made for radio: stars, scenes and hard sell, aimed at getting you into the picture house on Friday. Public-domain transfers from the Internet Archive, harvested from the Old Time Radio Researchers collections and indexed episode by episode.
Source collection
Old Time Radio Researchers Group
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
40 dated broadcasts across 94 years on the air, with 90 years where nothing is known to survive. Brightness is transfer quality; empty cells are months lost to time.
Episodes
Start here
Listen to the run in order
Restored broadcasts from 2024, in original transmission order.
- 1. Sign Off · 19 Nov 2024
- 2. Dead Air · 26 Nov 2024
- 3. The Long Silence · 3 Dec 2024
- 01
Dead Air
4 Aug 2026 · 52 min
- 02
Sign Off
28 Jul 2026 · 15 min
- 03
The Case of the Missing Hour
21 Jul 2026 · 30 min
- 04
Night Broadcast
14 Jul 2026 · 45 min
- 05
The Last Train Out
7 Jul 2026 · 1h 0m
- 06
Signal at Midnight
30 Jun 2026 · 23 min
- 07
A Room Above the Street
23 Jun 2026 · 38 min
- 08
The Long Silence
16 Jun 2026 · 53 min
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