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Welcome! OTRcorner.net has returned to provide you with the best of radio's Golden age. Our current offering is a 13-part radio version of Mary Shelley's "Frankenstein," broadcast in 1931. Each part is roughly 12 minutes long and made available in modem-friendly streaming RealMedia format. You can choose to listen to each part individually ... or all parts, one after the other. Click on the appropriate link below to begin:

Frankenstein - Parts 01-13 Played In Sequence

Frankenstein - Part 01

Frankenstein - Part 02

Frankenstein - Part 03

Frankenstein - Part 04

Frankenstein - Part 05

Frankenstein - Part 06

Frankenstein - Part 07

Frankenstein - Part 08

Frankenstein - Part 09

Frankenstein - Part 10

Frankenstein - Part 11

Frankenstein - Part 12

Frankenstein - Part 13

And, for a limited time, we're pleased to present a bonus. But, you'll need broadband-speed Internet since these files constitute streaming RealVideo media (352x240). Back in the early days of television when stations actually "signed off" at the end of their broadcast days, many stations used a National Anthem film as their sign-off video. Others, however, chose to use an ephemeral film provided by the U.S. Air Force.

There were three films provided and I'm uncertain as to their exact ages. However, all of them had one thing in common - the flying of an Air Force jet while, in the background, an announcer read the poem titled, "High Flight," by John Gillespie Magee, Jr., a flier who died in a mid-air collision with another plane shortly after he wrote the poem. If you watched any TV in the 1960s and stayed awake for sign-off time, you probably saw at least one of these videos:

High Flight #1

High Flight #2

High Flight #3

A humorous side-note to these videos (grin). They say that "the third time is the charm." This is so true of the Air Force. You'll note that in the first video, they misspell the poet's name as "McGee." Then, in the second video, they misspell the poet's name again - this time as "MacGee." Finally, in the third video, they nail down the correct "Magee" spelling. Way to go, Air Force (ahem, I'm ex-Navy).

I hope you enjoyed your visit here and, of course, the memories stirred by your visit. Do come again.

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