Daybreak (Aired July 10, 1945)
This was drama with a difference. Columbia Workshop was not everybody’s cup of tea and in terms of audience popularity it was always noted that it was never a strong contender for the title “Radios Top Rated Drama Series” and yet it was always considered to be the drama program that led the way in radio standards. Columbia was the first to experiment with what radio drama was all about, introducing new techniques never before used in over the airwaves drama and because it received little encouragement from established writers, actors, etc., it was only by breaking new ground with new ideas and new techniques from writers who were not versed in the old ways that it was going to survive. Unlike theater drama which required scenery to stage the settings of a play. Radio drama relied only on the imagination of the listener to interpret the scene. But without the right kind of writer the whole thing could fall flat on it’s face. It required a blend of words and music coupled with each listener’s imagination to make the whole thing work successfully. New techniques were required to combine all of these things in order that the listener could live within the story which was being told. Neither did it go unnoticed that at the same time as achieving all this, it was essential that the broadcasting company’s moral obligations to the listening public were not compromised.
THIS EPISODE:
July 10, 1945. CBS network. "Daybreak". Sustaining. "A Program To Be Followed On Your Atlas." A trip around the world with the sunrise. The eighth program of, "Twenty-Six By Corwin." The script was subsequently used on June 22, 1941. Hester Sondergaard, Frank Lovejoy, Eddie Mayehoff, Lyn Murray (composer, conductor), Olga Quello (Brazilian vocal), Joan Banks, Cliff Carpenter, Gilbert Mack, Don Morrison, Paul Stewart, Rosalyn Green, Norman Corwin (writer, producer, director), Martin Wolfson, Frank Gallop (narrator). 29:18.
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