Inside the Archive: The Firesign Theatre (Documentary Short)

Presenting the first short film from Comedy on Vinyl and The Comedy Archive. It’s the story of Taylor Jessen prepping the Firesign Theatre archive to be shipped off to the Library of Congress.

https://youtu.be/ol981bbSfo4

Also, don’t forget to visit Taylor’s blog at taylorjessen.blogspot.com.

 

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Growing The NewsRadio Archive

A couple of weeks ago, I posted an unusual episode of the “Dispatches from Fort Awesome” podcast (here), in which I interviewed Holly Haber, who runs reelclothes.com.  Dispatches is normally a podcast about the sitcom NewsRadio, covering it episode by episode, but this was a fun exception.  Holly has worked selling costumes from film and TV for more than thirty years, after inheriting the business from her mother, who started the business after seeing costumes go unnoticed and unused when productions were done with them.  They’d then buy lots from studios and production companies and sell them in their physical store and, eventually, as today, online.

I discovered her website after beginning the podcast reignited a part of my fandom that I could finally afford to explore: buying stuff from the show.  This was during a period when I had an office

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Two Dick Davy Records Uncovered on the Comedy on Vinyl Podcast

We invite you to listen to the fourth Dick Davy episode of The Comedy on Vinyl Podcast, in which Jason Klamm and Firesign Theatre archivist Taylor Jessen discuss the discovery of two Dick Davy records recorded almost sixty years ago.  They discuss the digitizing process and what the future might hold for the records.  Listen here.

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