OLD TIME RADIO -
CD-ROM - 27 mp3
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12:43:50
With its premiere on the nationwide NBC
hookup in 1935, Lights Out was billed "the ultimate in
horror." Never had such sounds been heard on the air. Heads
rolled, bones were crushed, people fell from great heights and
splattered wetly on pavement. There were garrotings, choking,
heads split by cleavers, and, to a critic at Radio Guide, "the
most monstrous of all sounds, human flesh being eaten." Few
shows had ever combined the talents of actors and imaginative
writers so well with the graphic art of the sound technician.
Wyllis Cooper, who created, wrote, and produced it, was then a
36-year-old staffer in Chicago's NBC Studios. Cooper created his
horror "by raiding the larder." For the purposed of Lights
Out sound effects, people were what they ate. The sound of a
butcher knife rending a piece of uncooked pork was, when
accompanied by shrieks and screams, the essence of murder to a
listener alone at midnight. Real bones were broken - spareribs
snapped with a pipe wrench. Bacon in a frypan gave a vivid
impression of a body just electrocuted. And the cannibalism
effect was actually a zealous actor. Gurgling and smacking his
lips as he slurped up a bowl of spaghetti. Cabbages sounded like
human heads when chopped open with a cleaver, and carrots had
the pleasant resonance of fingers being lopped off. Arch
Oboler's celebrated tale of a man turned inside-out by a demonic
fog was accomplished by soaking a rubber glove in water and
stripping it off at the microphone while a berry basket was
curshed at the same instant. The listener saw none of this. The
listener saw carnage and death.
Cooper left the show in 1936 and Oboler was given the job.
Oboler lost no time establishing himself as the new master of
the macabre. Between May 1936 and July 1938, he wrote and
directed more than 100 Lights Out plays. To follow Cooper
was a challenge: he was "the unsung pioneer of radio dramatic
techniques," but Oboler had passed the test with his first play.
His own name soon became synonymous with murder and gore, though
horror as a genre had always left him cold. Oboler aspired to
more serious writing.
Oboler's shows are well represented -- this series of Lights
Out was syndicated in The Devil and Mr. O offerings
of 1970 - 73. A transcribed syndication of original broadcasts
from 1942 - 43 with Arch Oboler as the host.
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SHOWS LIST
The Devil & Mr O 71-09-10 Arch Oboler's Demo
The Devil & Mr O 71-09-17 01 Alley Cat
The Devil & Mr O 71-09-24 02 Neanderthal
The Devil & Mr O 71-10-01 03 Revolt Of The Worms
The Devil & Mr O 71-10-08 04 Where Are You
The Devil & Mr O 71-10-15 05 Mr Freak
The Devil & Mr O 71-10-22 06 Gravestone
The Devil & Mr O 71-10-29 07 Ancestor
The Devil & Mr O 71-11-05 08 Nature Study
The Devil & Mr O 71-11-12 09 Big Mr Little
The Devil & Mr O 71-11-19 10 No Escape
The Devil & Mr O 71-11-26 11 Vacation With Death
The Devil & Mr O 71-12-03 12 The Hole
The Devil & Mr O 71-12-10 13 Live Forever
The Devil & Mr O 71-12-17 14 Going Down
The Devil & Mr O 71-12-24 15 Balance Sheet
The Devil & Mr O 71-12-31 16 House Is Haunted
The Devil & Mr O 72-01-07 17 Official Killer
The Devil & Mr O 72-01-14 18 The Hungry One
The Devil & Mr O 72-01-21 19 Three Thousand Dollars
The Devil & Mr O 72-01-28 20 The Chest
The Devil & Mr O 72-02-04 21 Paris Macabre
The Devil & Mr O 72-02-11 22 Rocket From Manhattan
The Devil & Mr O 72-02-18 23 Hollywood Visitor
The Devil & Mr O 72-02-25 24 Cemetary
The Devil & Mr O 72-03-03 25 Speed
The Devil & Mr O 72-03-10 26 Shrinking People
This product was added to our catalog on Sunday 18 March, 2012.