Synopsis
Promotional film for the Yankee Network, a chain of New England radio stations, showing radio production and broadcasting.
Synopsis, reviewed
Details
- Running time
- 32 minutes
- Collection
- Prelinger Archives
Reviews on the Internet Archive
★★★★★ · New England's Radio Network · donwert · 2012-12-04
This film was produced in the mid-50s to promote The Yankee Network---a radio network serving the six New England states. Pitched at potential advertisers, it begins with brief travelogues of each state that emphasize the economic power of the region, including textile and shoe manufacturing---industries that have almost disappeared nowadays. Also mentioned, but barely, is the electronics industry which would soon become the focus of New England's economic growth. In many ways, this film is like another film in this collection which promotes WJR Radio in Detroit. By 1969, The Yankee Network…
★★★★ · We Interrupt This Commercial · Dodsworth the Cat · 2025-05-30
Evidently the producers didn't have enough material to push the Yankee Network on potential advertisers, so it stops everything for a travelogue with some nice shots, several narrators and statistics about potatoes and textiles (pronounced several different ways). The start includes a guy in 1950s garb reconstructing radio broadcasts from the 1920s. Then there's another guy--who he is, is not explained--in what looks like an office with a lamp and a globe. There's some incredible acting at 15:17 where some guy shouts SURE and starts pointing his finger at Charlie. The other "real people" in…