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Cavalcade of America Old Time Radio Program Cavalcade of America Old Time Radio Program ½ hour drama
The show dramatized significant people or events in American history and literature. It also featured a full orchestra punctuating the action, occasionally playing an extended piece of music, and some shows were dedicated to American music in which the orchestra really got a chance to shine. Cavalcade was a high quality show using star power like Raymond Massey, Charles Laughton, Lionel Barrymore, Dick Powell, Clark Gable made his first radio appearance on Cavalcade, and Orson Welles gained valuable experience on the show before creating the Mercury Theater. In addition to the hottest stars of the day, and talented up and comers, the show had a good group of staff writers, but also worked with popular authors of the day. Carl Sandburg, Stephen Vincent Benet, and Robert Sherwood all worked for Cavalcade. Sandburg was the narrator for the show adapting his book Native Land. The show paid top rate, and the best radio directors demanded perfection from the actors. In addition to top stars, directors, and production crew, the show also hired “historical advisors” led by Dr. Frank Monaghan of Yale to verify the stories as historically accurate. Having hyped the accuracy of the show, the audience raised themselves to the task of finding errors. Lucky for the producers, the internet hadn't been invented yet. But overall the show did a good job of presenting an accurate picture of history. (And at least they tried, at opposed to...oh, say, Xena Warrior Princess.) At first the show featured people and events from America's past (John Winthrop and Yankee Independence) but around 1939 the show changed a bit and allowed for more recent events and people, or modern stories that reflected American ideals (Babe Ruth and stories of war time valor). The origin of the show is a little less than the ideals it tried to promote. Cavalcade of America was sponsored by the Dupont Company. Dupont was having, what in the biz is called a “public relations situation”. The company was being investigated for war profiteering after World War I. In response, the company created a quality show, highlighting positive American ideals. To help its Dupont's reputation, the show did not enact any violence on the show. And it only had a commercial intro at the beginning of the show, and a longer commercial at the end. The slogan: "Maker of better things for better living through chemistry" first appeared on this show.
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