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Rees, appears to have fashioned a series of episodes for Columbia in 1917 titled “On Active Service”. As already mentioned, at least one author/director, Major A.

Surviving texts are, therefore, linear framed within three to three and a half, and sometimes four minutes. The production technology of this period limited the duration of the phonograph mini-plays. Since 1999, I have uncovered many more dramatized performances of different aspects of the Home Front and sound re-enactments from the Western Front, It could even be argued that the genre was a hybrid of drama and documentary as many attempts were made to represent actual events through performance. Rees for the Columbia Phonograph Company in 1917. This was a specific reference to “In The Trenches”, devised by Major A.E. In 1999, I identified phonograph dramatized short story recordings from the First World War as having significance in being the earliest mechanical record of audio drama (p. The sketches, along with speeches, recitations, and a few actual documentary interviews, represent a wider cultural communication in recorded sound apart from music. I identify dramatized recordings as a specific genre of production and reception in sound entertainment and investigate their origin with evidence that the form began in the Boer War period at the junction of 19th and 20th centuries. The article begins by analyzing the nature and extent of “descriptive sketches” produced for the phonograph during the Great War. To what extent does “The Angels of Mons” phonograph and the genre of descriptive sketches support this analysis? Does this short sound drama play have any relevance to the cultural phenomena of spiritualism, modernism and patriotic Christianity identified as being important during the Great War period? A number of historians have discussed the First World War as being a theatre for the first modern media war, in which the process of propaganda was modernized. The Regal disc was an example of what was described at the time as “descriptive sketches.” This article explores why a sound phonograph was used to dramatize the myth that angels intervened to assist the British Expeditionary Force to resist the German Army invading France through Belgium in 1914. The recording is examined as a text for its significance in terms of propaganda, style of audio-drama, and any cultural role it may have played in the media of the First World War. This article focuses on the sound dramatization of the myth of “The Angels of Mons” released by Regal in 1915. Entertaining storytelling through dramatic performance was mobilized for the purposes of improving recruitment and disseminating patriotic endorsement recordings. This was achieved by the making, publication and distribution of short audio dramas acted with sound effects and music in front of early microphones and released in the form of 78 rpm phonograph discs. Contributors will be listed with their submissions.Sound drama production prior to the onset of the “Radio Age” underwent a pioneering development during the Great War. Please include available pension narratives and as much detail from other sources as is available. Names must be accompanied by supporting source material and a transcription of the same. Material may be sent to the editor at or via Facebook messaging (John U. Eventually, my hope is to convince people with special knowledge of the other nations' armies involved to participate. The project will begin with Continental army and Whig militia female followers.

Spouses and retainers of both enlisted men and officers are eligible. This includes females (and their offspring) who followed the troops on campaign, or served in a camp, garrison, or other settled military post (including artificers and other military support groups). Names Project: Purpose, Methodology, and Contributions The aim of this project is to compile names and biographies of women attached to the military forces of the War for American Independence, 1775 to 1783 Whig (Continental), French, Spanish, British, German, and Loyalists. An effort to provide biographies of the 'nameless' women who followed the armies of the War for American Independence.

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