Film Nerds, Rejoice!
August 14, 2013 12:18 PM Subscribe
Lantern--a search platform for the collections of the Media History Digital Library that enables access to over 800,000 pages of digitized texts from the histories of film, broadcasting, and recorded sound (from 1904 to 1963)--has gone live. (Previously.)
A thing of beauty. Thanks for the post. I'll be digging forever. (I might even come back here to comment more on it.)
posted by brokeaspoke at 12:58 PM on August 14, 2013
posted by brokeaspoke at 12:58 PM on August 14, 2013
These are great. Just flipping through a 1922 copy of "Radio Age" and ran across this gem from an entirely different world:
"One of the most enthusiastic boy radio fans in the Middle West is "Paddy" O'Neill, 11-year-old son of Detective Patrick J. O'Neill, who was killed by Tommy O'Connor, the Chicago gunman. Little Pat, now the "man of the family," owns a cheap receiving set, which he has rigged himself, driving a pipe into the ground in his back yard to ground the wires. Driving in the pipe took a whole day of the boy's time. As soon as his set was rigged and in operation, Pat called in all the neighbors to hear the Chicago Opera Company, hearing the same music as though he and his friends were in the front row at the Auditorium Theater -- at $6 a seat."
posted by ariel_caliban at 1:07 PM on August 14, 2013 [2 favorites]
"One of the most enthusiastic boy radio fans in the Middle West is "Paddy" O'Neill, 11-year-old son of Detective Patrick J. O'Neill, who was killed by Tommy O'Connor, the Chicago gunman. Little Pat, now the "man of the family," owns a cheap receiving set, which he has rigged himself, driving a pipe into the ground in his back yard to ground the wires. Driving in the pipe took a whole day of the boy's time. As soon as his set was rigged and in operation, Pat called in all the neighbors to hear the Chicago Opera Company, hearing the same music as though he and his friends were in the front row at the Auditorium Theater -- at $6 a seat."
posted by ariel_caliban at 1:07 PM on August 14, 2013 [2 favorites]
ariel_caliban: "As soon as his set was rigged and in operation, Pat called in all the neighbors to hear the Chicago Opera Company, hearing the same music as though he and his friends were in the front row at the Auditorium Theater -- at $6 a seat."
Good thing Paddy didn't try this today, or he'd get sued by the RIAA and friends.
posted by Joakim Ziegler at 1:45 PM on August 14, 2013 [2 favorites]
Good thing Paddy didn't try this today, or he'd get sued by the RIAA and friends.
posted by Joakim Ziegler at 1:45 PM on August 14, 2013 [2 favorites]
Neat!
posted by brundlefly at 2:00 PM on August 14, 2013
posted by brundlefly at 2:00 PM on August 14, 2013
Already finding neat things related to my place of work! This is awesome.
posted by sciencegeek at 2:41 PM on August 14, 2013
posted by sciencegeek at 2:41 PM on August 14, 2013
Question: when I search the Internet Archives collections I don't get the results I get with searching Lantern. Why? Is the IA not doing full text search?
posted by sciencegeek at 1:01 PM on August 15, 2013
posted by sciencegeek at 1:01 PM on August 15, 2013
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