Watch this and you will smile, then laugh, and then say “Wow!” And you will absolutely learn a lot. Truly. The educational broadcasters of Cold War America never tapped the power of a medium the way this 12 minute and 45 second Radio Hour does.
What started as Stephanie Sapienza‘s proposal to play a 1954 radio piece about the Mississippi River for the Orphan Film Symposium on Water, Climate, and Migration transformed from a talk about linked data and digital humanities into . . . this!
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The only question is: Emmy or Peabody?
“The NAEB Radio Collection: Document Deep South and Mississippi Waterways”
Virtual presentation for the 2020 Orphan Film Symposium
by Stephanie Sapienza
The Orphans Radio Hour
Host, Producer, & Editor: Stephanie Sapienza
Graydon Ausmus (voiceover): Casey McAdams
Thomas Wolfe: Michael Stettes
Unlocking the Airwaves
Project Directors: Stephanie Sapienza, Eric Hoyt
Advisory Team: Rebecca Fraimow, Megan McShea, Allison Perlman, Laura Schnitker, Josh Shepperd
MITH Director: Trevor Muñoz
Site Development: Ed Summers
Site Graphics: Kirsten Keister
Data Curator: Glenn Clatworthy
University of Wisconsin (Digitization/Metadata): J.J. Bersch, Maureen Mauk, Jacob Mertens, Connor Perkins, Matthew St. John
Wisconsin Historical Society: Matthew Blessing, Alison Bridger, Paul Hedges