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The 2008 ShortDocs were selected from 72 stories from around the world that were submitted for our Radio Ephemera public audio challenge. Radio Ephemera was a collaboration (through the magic of the Internet) with the one-of-a-kind Prelinger Library, in San Francisco. Each submission was inspired by TWO of five books carefully selected from the Library and pictured below, featured the voice of a stranger, and lasted around three minutes.
"Trees as "Control of Body "The Big Strike" "Trailer Ahoy!" "The Facts of Life
Good Citizens" and Mind" for Teenagers"
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The 2008 ShortDocs were premiered publicly in Chicago in September, 2008 at a Listening Room event, and were presented by the producers themselves at the 2008 TCF Conference. Here they're listed alphabetically by producer. Have a listen, and then keep going; 68 more RE stories await your ears! |
Description: A guy muses on the fears associated with a loved one's body.
Inspired by: Control of Body and Mind / The Stork Didn't Bring You!
Stranger: voicemail lady
Website: cds.aas.duke.edu/audio/index.html |
Description: An audio doodle about this phrase: "Humankind is preceded by forest, and followed by desert." Forest versus city / tree versus car / then versus now.
Inspired by: Trees as Good Citizens / Trailer Ahoy!
Stranger: Various contemporary journalists as well as narrators from Give Yourself the Green Light (1954) and Destination Earth (1956), two public domain films available via the Prelinger Archives and the Internet Archive |
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Searchers (based on a true story)
by David P. Earle / Los Angeles, CA / USA |
Description: Where do lost stories go? Potato pancakes are involved.
Inspired by: Trailer Ahoy! / The Stork Didn't Bring You! / Trees as Good Citizens
Strangers: The good people of big book stores everywhere |
Description: The story of a mind on strike.
Inspired by: Control of Body and Mind / The Big Strike
Stranger: Mario Savio, activist leader during the Berkeley Free Speech Movement and Tom Wootton, author of The Bipolar Advantage
[photo by Oolong] |
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