It’s worth nothing that our obsession with celebrity means that many of the basic facts about these interviewees is known – where they were in May of 1975, or what the actual name of a production they were working on became. We have a literal deluge of knowledge about their marriages, divorces, places of residence. From these known facts, we can surmise a lot about what these tapes are talking about. If only this were the case with so many other cultures, now-lost places or people.
This collection would already be hours of insight and materials, but there’s just a little bit more.
Alongside these celebrity interviews, Bob also had tapes from the 1960s for a radio program called The Jewish Hour. Broadcast out of Phoenix, Arizona, and syndicated elsewhere, this radio show contains a variety of interviews, appearances and performances aimed from a Jewish perspective. There appears to be very little information about this show online – and while there might be a library or archive that has records of this show, there is nothing currently obvious to find. Until now: Lardine’s tapes have recordings, as well as related taped-off-radio recordings of interviews and shows covering historical people and events of the time. Without these tapes, there seems to be very scant recorded evidence of them available.
o cassettes like this, and look forward to continuing the process of bringing them online. Who knows what other lost treasures lurk in the world?
A very large thank you to Bob Lardine’s family for their donation accurate cleaned numbers list from frist database of these tapes, as well as friends of the Internet Archive who helped fund purchase of the tape decks used for playback and digitization.
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Screams in the Vault: Public Domain Horror in the Age of IP
Posted on June 13, 2025 by Sterling Dudley
An image of Mickey Mouse holding a match and looking at a ghoulish figure on the wall in 1929's The Haunted House. The right said of the image has text saying "Screams in the Vault: Public Domain Horror in the Age of IP".
As many iconic works have entered into the public domain since 2019, there has been a surge of horror film adaptations. These horror adaptations have received strong critiques for their deviation from or failure to say something unique about their source material. Ultimately, this criticism has spilled over into skepticism about the public domain itself, framing it as a creative dead-end. This critique, however, overlooks the underlying benefit of the public domain: the ability for anyone, not just corporations, to create their own version/adaptation of the same work. Despite consistent criticism surrounding public domain horror adaptations, a further study of these works reveals underlying contemporary industry conditions that lead to their creation, and demonstrates the enduring importance of the public domain in enabling creative freedom beyond pure corporate control.
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