visual culture – Preservation Sound https://www.preservationsound.com information and ideas about audio history Fri, 25 Apr 2014 11:43:04 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 just feeling 1972 in general https://www.preservationsound.com/just-feeling-1972-in-general/ https://www.preservationsound.com/just-feeling-1972-in-general/#comments Sun, 27 Apr 2014 11:38:08 +0000 http://www.preservationsound.com/?p=8058 ThisISTheIllestBass Spectra_Sonics_1020_Console_1972 Payola_1972 MCI_Console_Deck_1972 MAstering_1972 HighSchool_Studio_1972 Experimental_Studio_1971

]]> https://www.preservationsound.com/just-feeling-1972-in-general/feed/ 1 Fascinating Collection of Television Station IDs circa 1951 https://www.preservationsound.com/fascinating-collection-of-television-station-ids-circa-1951/ https://www.preservationsound.com/fascinating-collection-of-television-station-ids-circa-1951/#comments Sat, 17 Nov 2012 14:37:33 +0000 http://www.preservationsound.com/?p=5725 Today on P S Dot Com: a fairly comprehensive survey of television station ID graphics circa 1951.  Widespread full-time telecasting did not take place in the US until 1948, so you are seeing the face of a relatively new industry here.   I realize that this post has little to do with sound, but television, as it is broadcast,  is at least 50% sonic; those of us who work in television are all-too-aware that we design programming for a distracted audience; I.E., programs and adverts are designed to deliver messages to audiences that can hear the set without necessarily seeing the screen.   The importance of television broadcasts in creating the sound-environment of the twentieth century is immense.  Anyway, here’s a trip back to the earliest days of mass-TV broadcasting in the US, and a fascinating look at how the early TV broadcasters saw themselves, as-it-were.  If anyone has a link to an online archive of the sounds that accompanied graphics such as these, please do let us know.

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