[GreenKeys] At The Movies

Fri Sep 4 23:07:55 EDT 2015

James  did a  nice  little article   on  the SMECC here.

OK on  to the AP teletype - 
http://www.radioworld.com/article/clack-clack-clack-clack-clack/155005   is 
the  direct link to the radio world  article    
"Clack-Clack-Clack-Clack-Clack" by Charles S. Fitch and features
a Model 15  owned by James O'Neal

Yes  be  sue to read  other   history articles by  James O'Neal  - the  guy 
is  great!

Ed Sharpe archivist  for SMECC   _www.smecc.org_ (http://www.smecc.org)  

In a message dated 9/4/2015 7:28:17 P.M. US Mountain Standard Time,  
jhhaynes at earthlink.net writes:

I have a  friend, James O'Neal who has collected a lot of radio stuff.
In  semi-retirement he edits a TV industry magazine and writes some
articles on  broadcasting history for a sister magazine.

He was contacted by Fox  News in connection with their O'Reilly thing
"Legends and Lies of the Old  West" because they were doing a show on
the Real Long Ranger.  His  daughter works in the TV industry in some
capacity and suggested he could  supply props - one thing they wanted
to was to show the Lone Ranger radio  show as received in a home in
the 1930s.  Well he has some nice old  radios in his collection and
agreed to supply those, and then they also  wanted a studio scene with
some authentic equipment.  He told them he  had the equipment, some
rare microphones, but they didn't get out of his  sight, so if they
wanted to use them they would have to pay him a daily  rate and he would
accompany them.  They agreed, and since they had him  there drawing
pay they decided to use him in the show, as a radio  announcer.
So his gear stayed under his personal supervision and got back  home
safely.

If you want to see some of the show, google for  "Legends and Lies" Bass
and it will come up.  Bass Reeves is the man  O'Reilly believes was
the real-life model for the Lone Ranger.  He  worked out of Ft.
Smith, Arkansas and into what was then Indian Territory,  now Oklahoma.
Ft. Smith was the home of the court room of the legendary  "Hanging
Judge".  James O'Neal appears right at the beginning as the  radio
announcer.

James has written quite a number of articles on  radio broadcasting
history.  You can find them on the web site of  Radio World,
www.radioworld.com  That site has a really lame search  facility,
so it's best to click on Columns -> Roots of Radio and then  skim
the pages.  One that you can find by search is  titled
"Clack-Clack-Clack-Clack-Clack" by Charles S. Fitch and  features
a Model 15 owned by James O'Neal.  That machine is a  genuine
Associated Press model, nameplates and all, and was given to me  by
a retired radio station engineer in this area.  It had been in  his
storage shed for a number of years and had become a mouse house,  so
was a bit of work to restore.  (Evapo-Rust is great stuff.)   Then James
paid rather handsomely to have a local powder coat company strip  it and
refinish it - they do a nice-looking black wrinkle.  He's  building
in the basement of his home a replica of the control room of the  AM
broadcast station where he worked as a teenager in our home  town.

This was the first genuine A.P. machine to come into my hands,  and was
somewhat interesting.  Apparently A.P. didn't want to pay for  any
features they were not going to use, so the base wiring is  very
basic, omits the AC outlet and any wiring for motor control,  send-
receive-break feature, etc.  With the machine I got an A.P.  instruction
about changing gears in the field to convert the machine to 50  baud
operation; but as received it was geared for 45.45 baud.  The  table
that came with it was not the official Teletype table at all, but  was
home made of steel angle perforated stock like you can buy at a  good
hardware store.  There was an instruction stuck on the table  about
setting a timer; so apparently the timer was set to turn off  the
machine outside of prime news hours.

Oh this started out as some  other topic but has transmogrified into  this
one.

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