Document Type
Article
Abstract
Some of the most ambitious experiments in early radio programming involved the coordination of sounds and visuals. This essay explores the phenomenon of “illustrated radio,” or radio broadcasts enhanced with accompanying visual media such as lantern slides, museum exhibits, and filmstrips. Newspapers, museums, and schools experimented with this format in the 1920s–40s in an effort to expand their audiences and adapt their informational missions to a changing media environment. While relatively short-lived, illustrated radio constituted a significant form of audiovisual broadcasting before television and highlights the range of uses that were envisioned for radio when it was new.
Publication Date
7-2016
Recommended Citation
Good, Katie Day, "Radio’s Forgotten Visuals" (2016). University Faculty Publications and Creative Works. 1019.
https://digitalcommons.calvin.edu/calvin_facultypubs/1019