Re: [ARSCLIST] Scopes Trial Sound Recordings

[Mwcpc6@xxxxxxx]

In a message dated 2/1/2006 8:23:10 AM Eastern Standard Time, 
kmccormi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx writes:
The trial was the first live radio broadcast from a trial but there was
not recording made. William Jennings Bryan did record a number of other
speeches some of which are available online at
<http://www.historicalvoices.org/earliest_voices/bryan.html> from the
Vincent Voice Library (although none appear directly related to Scopes).
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This information is helpful. The people putting on the play somehow thought 
that they should incorporate a wire recorder into the set. While we could have 
loaned them a Telegraphone, it is just as well that they don't need it.

That time period must have been a null in extemporaneous sound recordings. 
Wax cylinders were out of the picture and instantaneous discs had not been well 
developed. 

I remember reading in a contemporary early 20's magazine about a project to 
archive radio broadcasts on Telegraphone wires. I wonder if anything ever came 
of that.

Mike Csontos