[Frameworks] Looking for films about the radio and on air diffusion

[Chuck Kleinhans]

On May 8, 2014, at 9:59 AM, Julia Gouin <admin at cjcinema.org<mailto:admin at cjcinema.org>> wrote:

Dear all,

I am looking for films and videos that deal either thematically or technically with the idea of radio and radio diffusion.
Any titles that come to your mind?


In the US there were a number of Hollywood films in the 1930’s that used sound film to make dramatic musical comedies using musicians and singers who were well known to the public from the new technology of broadcast radio often employing the “backstage musical” motif about a radio show:  E.g.. The Big Broadcast.  And the famous first music video when MTV launched: ”TV Killed the Radio Star”.

Also in the narrative film vein, there’s the start of Renoir’s RULES OF THE GAME, the ham radio bit in Godard’s TWO OR THREE THINGS I KNOW ABOUT HER, etc.

The connections are virtually endless: 40k’s cop films that show police using the brand new technology of police  band radio to communicate; the trope of the late night radio personality speaking to night owls, etc.  For Hollywood you can do a simple search on IMDB using terms like radio, broadcast, etc to come up with lists.

Chuck





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