REEFER MADNESS -- Old Time Radio and the Library of Congress: >From Antique Andy, Museum Curator, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
MUSEUM OF REEFER MADNESS V2-8 As many of you know the Library of Congress has a copy of the following Old Time Radio program: BEHIND PRISON BARS -- April 11, 1938 - The Story of how a young man committed murder while under the influence of marijuana will be told on "Behind Prison Bars" April 11, 1938, Appleton Post Crescent However, getting an actual copy is quite an ordeal. The following is a reply letter to my original inquirer. Note that they are asking for $81.75 plus dollars for it and that's after you obtain permission (about $150 for that) before you can obtain a copy of it. --------------- To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To obtain copies of recordings in the NBC Radio collection, you will need to obtain the written permission of NBC. To contact them, send a letter to Ms. Gillian Lusins, NBC Law Department, Room 1081E, 30 Rockefeller Plaza, New York, NY 10112. Copies are made in the Library's Recording Laboratory which charges $109 per hour of the engineer's time to make the transfers. Charges are made in 15-minute increments with a 30-minute minimum. The transfers are made in real time. Phonoduplication may take three to five weeks from the time the paperwork is completed. Rush orders take five to seven work days with an hourly charge of $184. Copies can be made on cassettes, seven or ten-inch open reel tape, at 3 3/4 or 7 1/2 ips, single or dual track, R-DAT Cassette, or CD-R. For further details about this process, please consult our Web page at <http://www.loc.gov/rr/record/audiodup.html>. I would estimate that our engineer could transfer this recording in 45 minutes and you would be charged approximately $81.75 at the regular rate plus the cost recording stock and postage. To proceed with an order, . . . . [Name withheld] Reference Librarian Recorded Sound Reference Center --------------------------------- Hint, does anyone live over in the Washington DC area, or know someone over there that can take a tape recorder into the building???? REEFER MADNESS TELEVISION: Does anyone out there know anything about the following television programs? I am trying to obtain copies: BOARDER PATROL - TV Tuesday, Dec. 8, 1959 - A half smoked MARIHUANA Cigaret saves Deputy Chief Jagger from certain death at the hands of a Mexican wetback smuggler. SEA HUNT - TV --Chicago Daily Tribune Oct 20, 1962 pg. C10 - Sea Hunt An underwater MARIJUANA farm provides an unusual adventure for Mike Nelson (Rerun) Lloyd Bridges for Oct. 23, 1962 --Sea Hunt: Mike Nelson discovers MARIJUANA plant on ocean floor. With Lloyd Bridges 30 minutes, Dec 31, 1960 - N.Y. Times Dec. 31, 1960 pg. 33. ARMSTRONG CIRCLE THEATER - TV Chicago Daily Defender - July 31, 1963 pg. A17 "TV Program Guide" 9:00 Armstrong Circle Theater --- Three reporters on Assignment: Teen-Age Junkies" comb New York in search of material. In hospitals, at MARIJUANA parties and in police stations they encounter addicts, pushers and racketeers. DRAGNET - TV A Juvenile delinquent picked up with MARIJUANA in his possession tells authorities that his brother plans to hold up a loan company. Jack Webb and Ben Alexander star. Nov 8, 1956 [Washington Post and Times Herald - Nov. 8, 1956 pg. B10] So far we only have been able to obtain the following: [MP4] - TELEVISION - 1952 - DRAGNET - Episode #18 The Big Seventeen w/commercials (11/06/1952) Sergeant Friday investigates the destruction of a movie theater by a gang a teenagers! The cops find a small box containing marijuana and put two-and-two together the reefer is making the kids go wild! Turns out that teenage Johnny is pushing weed, yellow jackets, goof balls and "H." His friend tells the police "but it's too late...Johnny takes a hot shot and ODs. Antique Andy Museum Curator [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Learning Electronically About Freedom mailing service
