3:06 |
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1929 |
Vernon
M. Thomas starts selling "the best little car that's ever been sold." |
2:16 |

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1936 |
My
father hears a big band on Catalina Island. |
15:11
7 clips |

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1961 |
Christmas
dinner, conversation, and music-making with the Thomases. |
2:04
3:02 |
 
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1961 |
Our
shortwave radio, and a 1961 Richwood High School basketball game on WMRN. |
1:52 |
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1962 |
A
tape recorder enables me to play Beethoven twice as fast. |
2:20
3:43
2:29 |

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1962 |
The
Kentucky Derby, taped off television, with the band playing "My
Old Kentucky Home." |
1:45 |

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1963 |
A
song I thought I wrote for the Roman Banquet. |
1:41 |

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1964 |
As
a high school junior, I call the play-by-play of a basketball game. |
0:16 |

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1965 |
The
"dream theme" from my senior class play. |
0:40 |

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1965 |
A
paragraph from my valedictory address. |
0:36 |
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1965 |
I
recreate, with synth sax and synth harp, a tune that we Oberlin
freshmen sang. |
0:57 |

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1967 |
The
reconstructed opening to the radio program Oberlin Digest. |
1:37
1:27
1:40 |

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1967 |
Parts
of four folk-pop songs from the Armenian Nightingale and his college friends. |
30:40
13
clips |

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1967 |
By
torchlight, students agitate for liberalized housing rules.
The WOBC microphone is there. |
13:30
11
clips |

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1968 |
On the day I
fake an on-the-scene news report, I also discuss lab supplies with my
partner Jan Olson. |
0:30 |

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1968 |
The
chimes of Finney Chapel. |
1:08 |

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1968 |
A
warning about the approaching judgment day. |
8:53 |

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1969 |
A
visiting student gives his view of the war in Viet Nam. |
1:12 |

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1969 |
Chanting,
anti-war Oberlin College students invade the administration building. |
0:54 |

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1969 |
The
Oberlin president talks with the students. |
0:40 |

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1969 |
I
speak in multiple voices for a WOBC radio announcement. |
2:26 |

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1969 |
A
fragment from my radio play "The Sorcerer's Effects." |
0:42 |

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1969 |
The
theme music to the Marion CATV program Potpourri. |
19:19
7
clips |
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1970 |
I
talk with former high school classmate Terry Rockhold, now a math teacher. |
0:33 |

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1970 |
A
promo and ID from FM 88 in Syracuse. |
8:20
5
clips |

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1970 |
Fantastic
Fred Legend, the radio star, presents his Annette Funicello Dance
Festival & Retrospective. I play a scientist. |
5:02
4
clips |

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1970 |
More
of me as a scientist, voice breaking appropriately, plus two singers
whose voices also crack on cue. |
3:34 |

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1971 |
An
in-car recording of the Rockhold/Thomas Rally Team reaching a checkpoint. |
75:44
29
clips |

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1972 |
In
Livermore, Kentucky: conversations with relatives and a church
service on Mother's Day. |
1:30 |

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1972 |
An
interview from our TV coverage of the Harding High School prom. |
0:41 |

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1972 |
Listen
to the bouncing Bingo balls. |
1:49 |

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1972 |
Sandy
and Judy cover the opening of a country club. |
0:20
1:25 |

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1973 |
Then
they promote their daily show, Marion Today, on which Judy
ad-libs a commercial. |
2:56 |

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1973 |
A
Marion Today viewer calls in with an opinion about Watergate. |
0:11 |

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1973 |
An
especially annoying test tone. |
0:54 |

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1974 |
Voice-over
announcements for Marion Today. |
1:22 |

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1974 |
A
commercial on Marion's TV-3. |
1:54
2:33
2:08 |

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1974 |
A
song by Trinity High School's Susan Downing. Later in the same article: Messiah
and "Pomp and Circumstance." |
1:21 |

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1975 |
Quoted
in 1995: "All the people we used to know..." |
3:43
4
clips |

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1976 |
Excerpts
from a 1976 cable newscast. |
44
min
4
clips |

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1978 |
I
play old Broadway standards on the piano for my parents. |
2:26 |

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1981 |
"AM
Drive" performs in the TV-3 studio. |
2:20 |

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1981 |
Lanny
Frattare describes a Pirates game on KDKA radio. |
1:43 |

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1985 |
Inside
a TV production truck, we begin to edit Paterno. |
1:02
0:40 |

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1985 |
A
Stevie Nicks song plays the role of Joe Paterno's wife. |
3:08 |

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1988 |
A
multi-track recording of a Bach chorale-prelude. |
0:50 |
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1989 |
The
wall has come down, and the cry of "Freedom!" rings out in
East Berlin. |
0:31 |

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1999 |
A
modern commerical recalls a 1962 sing-along show. |
3:15 |

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2003 |
The
finale of my centennial organ recital. |
1:04 |

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2005 |
One
of my grandfather's favorite songs. |
3:05 |

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2006 |
A
Bach bourrée, played very slowly and emotionally. |