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Vox Pop

Heard
1939–1948
Episodes
32

NPR has said that Vox Pop was the first "Quiz Show" but that was sort of peripheral to the show, which was produced in a different location each week. It billed itself as the "premier audience participation show" and now these short interviews provide a keyhole glimpse into the era in which it was created. You can read more about Vox Pop here: http://www.npr.org/programs/morning/features/patc/quizshow/index.html http://www.digitaldeliftp.com/DigitalDeliToo/dd2jb-Vox-Pop.html also see the punny WB cartoon here: http://archive.org/details/FoxPop ...there was a lot of disc noise so I had to do some noise reduction on some of the files.

Episodes, in broadcast order

  1. NBC 280 New York World's Fair New York, New York

    · 30 min

  2. NBC Largest Telephone Building, New York, New York

    · 29 min

  3. CBS 302 Paramount Sound Stage of Seventeen Hollywood California

    · 30 min

  4. CBS 314 McLean Operating Room in Roosevelt Hospital New York, New York

    · 30 min

  5. CBS 321 Republican Convention Philadelphia, Pennsylvania clip

    · 8:34

  6. CBS 327 Movie Set of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia

    · 29 min

  7. CBS Buster Crabbe, New York World's Fair

    · 30 min

  8. CBS Mystery Location, Burns Detective Agency Conclave

    · 29 min

  9. CBS Brooklyn Dodgers, St. Louis Cardinals Hotel Bossert Brooklyn, New York

    · 29 min

  10. CBS Indiana State Fair Indianapolis, Indiana

    · 30 min

  11. CBS Duke University Durham, North Carolina

    · 30 min

  12. CBS U.S.S. Prairie State BB-7 New York, New York

    · 30 min

  13. CBS University of Tennessee Knoxville, Tennessee

    · 29 min

  14. CBS Hangar 6 Maxwell Field Montgomery, Alabama

    · 30 min

  15. CBS U.S. Naval Academy Annapolis, Maryland

    · 30 min

  16. CBS Pheasant Hunting Capitol - Winner, South Dakota

    · 29 min

  17. CBS NY Military Academy Cornwall-on-Hudson, New York

    · 28 min

  18. CBS Notre Dame University South Bend, Indiana

    · 30 min

  19. CBS Air Raid Warden Defense Meeting New York, New York

    · 29 min

  20. CBS U.S. Marines Quantico, Virginia

    · 29 min

  21. CBS Army Air Corps Cadets at Randolph Field, Texas

    · 28 min

  22. CBS USMC 167th Birthday New River, North Carolina

    · 29 min

  23. CBS Penn State in Wartime State College, Pennsylvania

    · 30 min

  24. CBS USCG Manhattan Beach Training Center Brooklyn, New York

    · 30 min

  25. CBS Oregon Shipbuilding Corporation Shipyard Portland, Oregon

    · 30 min

  26. CBS Army Air Transport Command Hamilton Field, California

    · 30 min

  27. CBS Army Amphibious Forces Fort Ord, Monterey Bay, California

    · 30 min

  28. CBS Charleston, South Carolina Point of Embarkation USAHS Wisteria

    · 29 min

  29. CBS Repatriated POWs at Lake Placid Club, New York

    · 29 min

  30. CBS Marine Air Station, Cherry Point, North Carolina Ed Sullivan

    · 29 min

  31. CBS Armed Forces Radio Service AFRS HQ Hollywood, California

    · 29 min

  32. ABC Congressmen Richard M. Nixon, Glenn R. Davis Chattanooga, Tennessee

    · 29 min

Where it comes from 1

The archive items its episodes are played from, best first, with each one’s rights as its archive states them. An episode two sets both hold is played from the first.

  1. Vox Pop

    WWII Era Audio Recordings · WA4CZD · 32 episodes here · archive.org

    the Internet Archive states no licence or rights for it.

From WWII Era Audio Recordings at the Internet Archive.

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