Movies: Radio broadcast

Radio 1's longest-serving broadcaster Annie Nightingale takes us on a counter-cultural journey through the events, people and sounds that have inspired her illustrious career....

Blackout gags and music, including the title song originated in the movie musical Gold Diggers of 1933. Hollywood figures caricatured include Tallulah Bankhead, Joan Blondell, James Cagney, Bing Crosby, Guy Kibbee, Zasu Pitts, Mae West, Bert Wheeler ...

Using edited archive footage, mockery is made of Italy's dictator Benito Mussolini....

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In this comedic Pete Smith Specialty short, average housewife Mrs. George T. Hardnose's day is recalled....

A popular radio personality writes and broadcasts ghost stories over the air. He receives a strange call warning him not to finish his latest story, which is about a child who dies assisting in a magician's show....

In this short film, Babe Ruth proposes to put a song about baseball on the radio....

Three friends escape into the wilderness after hearing only a portion of the Orson Welles radio play: The War of the Worlds. They seek refuge in an old hunting camp to ride out the fictional attack, and soon learn that they are being stalked by somet...

A day in the life of 91.1, Nuxalk Radio, a radio station built to help keep the Nuxalk language alive while broadcasting the laws of the lands and waters....

Birds present their own radio broadcasting service, featuring feathered versions of such stars as Bing Crosby, Jack Benny, Fred Allen, Rudy Vallee, Eddie Cantor, Ed Wynn, and many others....

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In March 1982, Rádio Fluminense FM, known as MALDITA, airs in Niterói, which with irreverence, boldness and creativity in programming, breaks with the standardized foreign music markets and begins the so-called Rock 80 generation....