Dracula (July 11, 1938)

[Wich2]

Ted is one of the Old Heads, and a good source.

I checked this out when he posted it. It does appear to be a solid aircheck, without the broken disc skips that plagued the opening of many old circulating copies.

But it is evidently off-pitch.

The well-known voices seem a bit slow; and the show would never have actually run 61:31.

- Craig

[tonyw]

I'd like to thank this site yet again for making these valuable audio-recordings available especially the DRACULA remix. Using the 1938 broadcast in a 100 level freshman composition class they allow me to teach (for the moment?) in a very creative manner, I've directed students as to how to find the links and they have written so many good passages on the audio-cinematic and Herrmann soundtrack techniques used in this production.

Welles' version is a good substitute for reading the original novel which would overwhelm most students so the different narrative tracks ideally complement the diary entries in the actual srouce.

Who knows? They may start reading Stoker as Welles hoped his Shakespeare adaptations would attract his audiences to the texts themselves.

[Wich2]

It's a great one!

(If only he'd gotten to do his film version...)

And if I ever get it post-finished, I'll share my Quicksilver production.

- Craig