Library of American Broadcasting Scripts collection

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Library of American Broadcasting Scripts collection

1925-1991 (majority 1930-1960)

http://hdl.handle.net/1903.1/18512

The Library of American Broadcasting Scripts Collection is a collection of radio and television scripts gathered from several sources and donations by the original staff of the Library of American Broadcasting. Dating from 1925 to 1991, these scripts are the actual scripts used by radio and television performers. Many of the scripts contain the hand-written markings the performers created as they were preparing the script for broadcast. These scripts document almost seventy years of radio and television broadcasting and represent a variety of genres, including comedy, drama, soap operas, quiz programs, news programs, and music programs.

10.50 Linear Feet

eng, Latn

University of Maryland (College Park, Md.). Libraries

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SNAC Resource ID: 7393361

University of Maryland (College Park, Md.). Libraries

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Library of American Broadcasting Scripts Collection

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The Library of American Broadcasting was established as the Broadcast Pioneers Library (BPL) by the Broadcast Pioneers Educational Fund, Inc., now the Library of American Broadcasting Foundation, Inc, to preserve the history of radio and television broadcasting. The BPL/LAB accomplished this goal by collecting books, magazines, photographs, personal papers, audio recordings, film and video records, and, of course, radio and television scripts. The BPL was dedicated on April 19, 1972...

Broadcast Pioneers Library of American Broadcasting

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The Library of American Broadcasting was founded as the Broadcast Pioneers Library in 1972, in space donated by the National Association of Broadcasters. It was the brainchild of retired NBC executive William S. Hedges. The Library expanded rapidly in its first two decades, but faced space and budget problems. In October 1994, it moved to the University of Maryland Libraries, where it is now part of the Special Collections in Mass Media and Culture, located in UMD's Hornbake Library....