We select and digitally remaster a classic radio show episode, and then introduce it with comments about its content. We then play the radio show in its entirety. We cover then-popular phrases, actors you might see or hear elsewhere, and how the audience of the time would understand certain commen…
Brian Boswell from Clean Slate Films
On December 3rd, 1950 Mary Livingston fluffed her straight line near the end of a live radio broadcast of the Jack Benny Show. The audience laughed and applauded so long and loudly that Jack didn’t have time to utter his punch line. That line had been lost to the ages until an original script was recently uncovered at … Continue reading Jack Benny’s “Grass Reek” Punch Line Discovered After 65 Years.
Clean Slate Films presents an episode of its podcast called Pop Culture Connection. The purpose of Pop Culture Connection is to help modern audiences understand and enjoy the legacy of 20th century popular culture through media, and how it relates to our own times. We select a classic radio show episode, remaster the audio, and … Continue reading Pop Culture Connection 14003 – Suspense – Ghost Hunt with Ralph Edwards – June 23rd, 1949
Clean Slate Films presents an episode of its podcast called Pop Culture Connection. The purpose of Pop Culture Connection is to help modern audiences understand and enjoy the legacy of 20th century popular culture through media, and how it relates to our own times. We select a classic radio show episode, remaster the audio, and … Continue reading Pop Culture Connection 14002 – Truth or Consequences Halloween 1948
Clean Slate Films presents an episode of its podcast called Pop Culture Connection. The purpose of Pop Culture Connection is to help modern audiences understand and enjoy the legacy of 20th century popular culture through media, and how it relates to our own times. We select a classic radio show episode, remaster the audio, and … Continue reading Pop Culture Connection 14001 – The Baby Snooks Halloween Episode of November 1st, 1946