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Re: Jules Verne Radio Shows

From: Alex Kirstukas <infernalnonsense~at~yahoo.com>
Date: Mon, 29 Aug 2011 13:17:47 -0700 (PDT)
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Hi Drake, Just a quick note -- Welles's 1938 recording isn't the same as his 1946 one. The former is a straightforward adaptation of 80D (the Stephen W. White translation); the latter is a condensed version of, and long commercial for, Welles'sBroadway musical Around the World(songs by Cole Porter, adaptation again from the White translation). Both are interesting, but rather strange; the 1938 Aouda sounds like Natasha Fatale from The Rocky & Bullwinkle Show, and the 1946 Cole Porter songs are extremely silly. ("Phileas" is made to rhyme with "Piccadilly-ous," and the big romantic number is built around the line "Should I tell you that I love you, or wait till you tell me?"!) Alex ________________________________ From: Drake Lolley <drake~at~onlinebluegrasslessons.com> To: Jules Verne Forum <jvf~at~Gilead.org.il> Sent: Monday, August 29, 2011 2:19 PM Subject: Re: Jules Verne Radio Shows Mr. Keeline,   Thank you for your reply! The only "vintage" recording of a Jules Verne radio drama that I could find on Archive.org was here: http://www.archive.org/details/1946MercurySummerTheatre     This was, of course, the same recording that was kindly brought to light earlier by Mr. Kytasaari. I have done some more research into the matter since my last post, and I have unearthed a few more available vintage recordings. I don't know if this is a topic that interests anyone else here on the forum, but I will try to post my findings. It would be great to see all of these recordings in one place! This may be one of my future projects. I have looked into librivox and other similar services in the past, but unfortunately I have not had much luck with them. Being a speed reader, I found that the slow reading pace of many of the recordings was very trying to the nerves! This, of course, was my fault and not theirs, and I greatly admire the spirit of these projects... I have just found that reading the actual book is easier for me. I greatly appreciate that you took the time to look up these sources, though. Thank you!   Drake     On Sat, 27 Aug 2011 19:26:39 -0700 (PDT), James Keeline wrote: Not quite in the classic radio drama class but more like "books on tape" are the readings offered free on http://www.LibriVox.org which are performed by amateurs.  Some are better than others, of course.  The Verne titles may be found on this search: > > >https://catalog.librivox.org/search.php?author=Jules+Verne > > >Archive.org has many radio dramas but I don't notice any of the vintage ones on this Jules Verne search.  There may be other items of interest though: > > >http://www.archive.org/search.php?query=%22Jules%20Verne%22%20AND%20mediatype%3Aaudio > > >At the very least you could fill up your iPod or other MP3 player with these readings available in several languages. > >  >James D. Keeline >_____ > > >http://www.Keeline.com >http://Stratemeyer.org > > >>________________________________ >>From: Brian Taves >>To: Jules Verne Forum >>Sent: Saturday, August 27, 2011 8:58 AM >>Subject: Re: Jules Verne Radio Shows >> >> >>Years ago I traced the English-language radio-audio adaptations of JV.  My definition included from an dramatized version, to a condensation read by a single reader, but excluded straightforward readings of by a single individual of an entire novel, ie book-on-tape or audio book. >>  >>The total was around fifty, from the early days of radio in the 1930s, thru the present.  I know that there are at least that many and more broadcast in such countries as France, Germany, and the former Czechoslovakia.  >> >>Brian
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