Fannish
Oral History
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| 90 year old ART WIDNER
on the founding of N3F and more... |
 ART
WIDNER explains how the N3F was founded and more... time:12:50
Recorded at Corflu 25 - April 2008 - Las
Vegas, Nevada
Art Widner describes the
founding of the N3F and along the way gives a general personal history
including anedotes regarding his fanzine YHOS, his 34 year Gafia, his years
as a teacher, the game TSOHG and more! |
| CORFLU
SILVER OPENING CEREMONIES - April 25th 2008 - Las Vegas, Nevada |
Corflu
Silver Opening Ceremonies
time:33:32
Joyce and Arnie Katz welcome the attendees
of Corflu SIlver to the 25th Fanzine Fan Worldcon.
As is traditional for the Corflu
opening ceremony, a brief bit of humorous theatrics precedes Chairperson
Joyce Katz's welcoming speech, the choosing of the Corflu Silver Guest
of Honor and a live perfomance of 'The Goin' To Corflu Blues' by Bill Mills,
with harmonica accompaniment by Len Bailes. This is followed by duets by
Teresa Cochran Taylor and Bill Mills, a couple of fanzine filk songs by
Nic Farey (sadly Nic had no mic on the first number "Werewolves of Fandom"
and his vocal is nearly inaudible, but he's on mic for his second number)
and a one-of-a-kind impromptu perfomance by 90 year old Art Widner of a
blues song of his own composition and what he claims is the first filk
song ever written (by Jack Speer) "What a Mighty Fortress Is Our APA". |
Joyce
and Arnie Katz(partial) time: 2:45
Thank You's and Comments
prior to the presentation the 2008 FAAN Awards |
Ted
White's speech and selection of the past President of the FWA time:
4:09
Ted speaks about the Fan
Writers of America and then takes nominations for the past President of
FWA fo 2007.
Audience voting results
in Dan Stefan being chosen. |
| GoH
Speech - Andy Hooper time
11:31 |
"The Price of Pugwash" - A play by Andy Hooper time:
38:42
Performed at Corflu Silver.
Cast: Lise Eisenberg, Lloyd Penney, Roxanne Mills, Randy Byers, Len Bailes,
Ailene Forman, Bill Mills and Andy Hooper. |
| How
I Found Fandom or How Fandom Found Me |
Reports
& Interviews on Corflu Quire (24th
Corflu Con) |
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Corflu
is Fanzine Fandom's Annual World Convention
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| Arnie
Katz on VFW fanzine's Milestone 100th |
|
Arnie
Katz - Vegas Fandom Weekly's 100th issue Sept 2007
recorded at a Las Vegrants
meeting in Las Vegas Sept. 2007 - time 10:22 |
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AUDIOS RELATED TO, OR RECORDED AT, SCIENCE FICTION CONVENTIONS
| (possibly
from) EASTERCON 1974 - Newcastle, England |
Panel:
"The Golden Fifties" - 1950's Fandom time:
1:07:59
(possibly from)
EASTERCON 1974 - Newcastle, England.
Panelists include
Jim White, Ken Bulmer, Ron Bennett, Bob Shaw. Peter Weston appears from
the audience. |
| WORLDCON 64 - Los
Angeles, California - 2006 |
Rick
Kleffel's Report on Worldcon 64
time: 19:02
An episode of Rick Kleffel's
'The Agony Column Podcasts'. Includes some interviews, excerpts from panels,
etc.
Visit Rick's GREAT
audio archive web site at The
Agony Column |
VARIOUS INTERVIEWS
PROGRAMS - RADIO SHOWS - RADIO PLAYS - Etc.
The
Science Fiction Radio Show - from Odessa College - circa
1980's
audio
courtesy of Lloyd Biggle - encoded for the web by Bill Mills |
| TVoF
has recieved these few rare tapes of episodes from this series of shows
produced under the auspices of Odessa College and The Permean Basin Science
Fiction Association and ultimately aired on KOCV FM. There is audible hiss
suggesting that these may have been recorded 'off the air' as the program
was broadcast. My info on the show and it's hosts/producers is skimpy at
best. Darryl Lane, David Carson, David Cruz and Keith Johnson are variously
credited for participating in discussions and conducting interviews of
science fiction notables. Flawed though the audio may be, they are wonderfully
historic and informative, and well worth the listen. |
|
A. E. Van Vogt Interview on "The Science Fiction Radio Show" - 1982time:
28:26 |
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Discussing time travel stories on "The Science Fiction Radio Show" - 1982time:
28:23 |
| "LONG" JOHN NEBEL
- THE PARTY LINE - WOR radio program Feb. 7, 1958 |
The
Party Line - program on WOR radio, New York - Feb. 7, 1958 - Part 1time:
49:46
Host: "Long" John Nebel
Guests: Arthur C. Clarke, Courtland Hastings, Charles Leedham, Major Wayne
S. Aho
“Long” John Nebel ruled
the overnight airwaves on New York station WOR from the mid-1950s to the
early ’60s.
“The Party Line,”
usually featured a revolving guest “panel” of scholars, commentators, writers
and anyone Nebel found
interesting. Frequent guests
included Arthur C. Clarke, James Moseley and The Amazing Randi. The program
ran five and a half hours each weekday, plus wekends (for a total of 37.5
hours per week), but contained lengthy commercials and "coffee breaks"
in which segments and portions of previous programs were repeated.
This
audio is not the complete five and a half hour program. Breaks and commercials
have been removed.
Part
2 time:47:44Part
3 time: 1:18:08
A contribution to TVoF from
the collection of "Burbank396" |
| "LONG" JOHN NEBEL
- THE PARTY LINE - WOR radio program June 21, 1957 |
The
Party Line - WOR New York June 21, 1957 time:
2:13:10
Host: "Long" John Nebel
Guests: George Van Tassel, Dan Fry, M.K. Jessup, Hans Stephan Santeson
Among the discussions, in
the two hours we have of this five and a half hour program, George Van
Tassel tells how he rode in a flying saucer, and of his conversations with
the alien who was flying it. |
| "LONG" JOHN NEBBEL
ANNOUNCES THE ROSWELL CRASH |
"Long"
John Nebel announces the Roswell crash, July 8, 1947 time:
0:18
on
Radio station WOR in New York |
| Mars Is Heaven by
Ray Bradbury - an L.A. Fan Production mid 1960's by the Olympia Theater
Group |
|
MARS
IS HEAVEN by Ray Bradbury time:
29:51
CAST: Mitchell Evans, Dean
Dickensheet, Ted Johnstone, Frank Allison, Corey Howard, Marion Lee, Zeke
Lepine, Carol Graham, Jack Jardine, Owen Corey, Larry Maddock.
PRODUCTION CREDITS: Produced
by: Julie Jardine Directed by: M. K. Evans Sound & Effects by:
Frank A. Coe Technical Director: Dave McDaniel |
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