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...produce an old-time radio drama using scripts, sound effects and music. A workshop called Now Hear This! Telling a Story with Sound demonstrates how sound is used to advance the plot or create characters. "Our goal is to help build critical listening skills," says Robert Batscha, the museum's president. "Kids are so positive about TV and radio that it's a natural vehicle." With that same goal in mind, the Pavek Museum of Broadcasting in St. Louis Park, Minn., which houses a collection of antique broadcast equipment, provides studio time for kids to produce live radio broadcasts...
...museum's aggressive president, Robert Batscha, insists that his institution is not pandering to nostalgia but preserving an important social and cultural record. Sure enough, the museum has rounded up hundreds of kinescopes and tapes from TV's past that might otherwise have been lost. Its curatorial work, moreover, has sparked a revival of interest in such seminal TV figures as Jackie Gleason and Ernie Kovacs...
...museum is a vital repository not just of artistic highlights like old Kovacs shows but of the broadcast record of major historical events. "Can you imagine having had television cameras on Columbus' ships landing in the New World?" asks Robert Batscha, the museum's enthusiastic president. "It boggles the mind. But 400 years from now people will be able to say, 'Here we are living on Jupiter, and we have this wonderful historic footage of men landing on the moon.' " TV's early programming was preserved only haphazardly, and much of the museum's job has been to locate "lost...
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