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NBCB March Of Time 2/3/38
March of Time with narrator and dramatized news events produced by Roy Larsen, who later became president of Time, Inc.
First
heard on CBS on March 6, 1931, the show was broadcast on Friday nights
and sounded very much like the movie newsreels. Like the newsreels, the
show was built around a narrator who lead listeners into the dramatized
events. Of narrators, there were three during the shows run: Ted
Husing, Harry Von Zell and one of the longest "voice of Time" was
Westbrook Van Voorhis (pictured left).
Because the events were dramatized, an attempt was made to use
actors imitating the actual voices. Many listeners thought the actual
voices were being heard. During those early years, we heard "Adolph
Hitler" "Edward VIII" and "Bruno Hauptmann" among others. The actors
were chosen for these roles based on their ability to closely duplicate
the actual person. Sometimes an actor was required to listen from a
library of records with 30-second soundbites of the actual personality,
or view the March of Time's newsreels and listen to the
voice.Many of the actors went on to other fame including Agnes
Moorhead, Nancy Kelly, Jeannette Nolan, Art Carney, Orson Welles, Peter
Donald, Edwin Jerome, Maurice Tarplin, Kenny Delmar, John McIntire and
many more. Source, Jim Widner, http://www.otr.com/
Just imagine News being recreated.
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