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Poster: MPDMedia Date: Jun 23, 2022 5:45am
Forum: oldtimeradio Subject: Cut-off date for 'old-time radio' inclusion

In the last year, this section has seen an uptick in uploads of mostly BBC shows beyond the usual cut-off date of 1986, to accommodate the Vanishing Point episodes from the CBC. Is there any way of separating the post-86 material into a different subsection? I notice someone did this with TV shows, parsing them out into collections by decade. https://archive.org/details/classic_tv

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Poster: ChrisH8 Date: Jun 23, 2022 5:04pm
Forum: oldtimeradio Subject: Proposed cut-off date for 'old-time radio'

Some artists work spans over 50 years. Under this proposal will sub-collections be dissected against the up-loaders wishes? Your own OTR Variety Special with its many decades will need to be deconstructed to fit the new categories.
The issue of when is really Old Time needs a bit more discussion.

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Poster: MPDMedia Date: Jun 24, 2022 5:55am
Forum: oldtimeradio Subject: Re: Proposed cut-off date for 'old-time radio'

Not talking about the performers, I'm talking about shows produced after 1986. Really, there should be a 'Golden Age of Radio' section covering specific shows from 1930-1962, i.e. the Lum Edwards collection. Compilations like mine that fit into that category, within that time frame (Henry Fonda, Olivia De Havilland, Judy Garland, the 1949 set) -- that's up to IA. The BBC stuff (and are they okay with this copyright-wise?) should be in a different section -- Modern Radio Drama, or something like that.

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Poster: ChrisH8 Date: Jun 25, 2022 4:10am
Forum: oldtimeradio Subject: Proposed revised catagories for Old-Time Radio

There definitely needs to be input from large OTR Internet Archive uploaders and knowledgeable people before any implementation of a revision of a section of the Archive.

Verbose section starts here;
The revision of the TV section caused some issues and lost some cultural information. It is surprising to some that performers often moved from show to show over several decades. As the joke goes, "Did you know Paul was in a band before 'Wings'?" Spoiler alert. It was "The Quarrymen."

This cultural information is lost in the current TV section decade edited breaks. And a good argument can be made that Television had cultural shifts that do not align with the turn of each decade. Does anyone think 'The Monkees" should be in the same section as "Ozzie and Harriet'?

A well liked up-loader in the previous post mentioned TV shows section has asked to close out his collection and is unsure how some of the removing collection should be classified.
https://archive.org/post/1124841/oops-i-apologise

The advise of people who have digitized and preserved the OTR section should be sought before a change is made to the OTR section.