{"@context":"http://iiif.io/api/presentation/3/context.json","id":"https://arsc.aviaryplatform.com/iiif/251fj29n2h/manifest","type":"Manifest","label":{"en":["\"Let''s Get Acquainted, Folks!\": Texas A\u0026M Forest Service Radio Broadcasts Collection, 1947-1959"]},"logo":"https://d9jk7wjtjpu5g.cloudfront.net/organizations/logo_images/000/000/019/original/ARSC_Full_Logo_RGB_K.jpg?1605438091","metadata":[{"label":{"en":["Agent"]},"value":{"en":["John Bondurant (Presenter)","Greg Bailey (Presenter)","Chuck Howell (Chair)","Michael Biel (Videographer)","Leah Biel (Videographer)"]}},{"label":{"en":["Date"]},"value":{"en":["2017-05-13 (Created)"]}},{"label":{"en":["Format"]},"value":{"en":["Video","Audio"]}},{"label":{"en":["Description"]},"value":{"en":["\u003cp\u003eWhat do Smokey the Bear, the Texas Navy, Dinah Shore, and hillbilly music played by some Knotheads have in common? Well, they’re all a part of the Texas A\u0026amp;M Forest Service (TFS) Radio Broadcasts Collection at Texas A\u0026amp;M University in College Station, TX. Employing a mix of down home charm, celebrity cameos, radio drama, and lots of music (both Country AND Western!) through these programs, the TFS extended its educational mission to increase public awareness about community protection and wildfire prevention to the citizens of Texas over the airwaves. While the USDA’s Cooperative Forest Fire Prevention Campaign featuring Smokey the Bear is well known, other less known series include: “Jelly Elliott \u0026amp; the Three Knotheads” produced in Bossier City, LA in the “Piney Woods” region of northwest Louisiana, southwest Arkansas, and eastern Texas; the history series “Tales of Texas” and the PSA series “Charlie Adams \u0026amp; His Western All-Stars” were both produced by the TFS and WTAW radio in College Station, TX. These programs were originally distributed on a statewide, regional, and national basis, but many of them remain uncatalogued, hidden, and inaccessible. Over 27 hours of the TFS Radio Broadcasts Collection were digitized through a graduate student project and made available online in time for the 100th anniversary of the Texas A\u0026amp;M Forest Service in 2015. Future plans include further indexing of the programs’ content and accessibility through an online DAMS.\u003c/p\u003e"]}},{"label":{"en":["Language"]},"value":{"en":["English"]}},{"label":{"en":["Publisher"]},"value":{"en":["Association for Recorded Sound Collections"]}},{"label":{"en":["Rights Statement"]},"value":{"en":["\u003cp\u003eCopyright Association for Recorded Sound Collections\u003c/p\u003e"]}},{"label":{"en":["Video Editor"]},"value":{"en":["Amanda McCabe"]}}],"summary":{"en":["\u003cp\u003eWhat do Smokey the Bear, the Texas Navy, Dinah Shore, and hillbilly music played by some Knotheads have in common? Well, they\u0026rsquo;re all a part of the Texas A\u0026amp;M Forest Service (TFS) Radio Broadcasts Collection at Texas A\u0026amp;M University in College Station, TX. Employing a mix of down home charm, celebrity cameos, radio drama, and lots of music (both Country AND Western!) through these programs, the TFS extended its educational mission to increase public awareness about community protection and wildfire prevention to the citizens of Texas over the airwaves. While the USDA\u0026rsquo;s Cooperative Forest Fire Prevention Campaign featuring Smokey the Bear is well known, other less known series include: \u0026ldquo;Jelly Elliott \u0026amp; the Three Knotheads\u0026rdquo; produced in Bossier City, LA in the \u0026ldquo;Piney Woods\u0026rdquo; region of northwest Louisiana, southwest Arkansas, and eastern Texas; the history series \u0026ldquo;Tales of Texas\u0026rdquo; and the PSA series \u0026ldquo;Charlie Adams \u0026amp; His Western All-Stars\u0026rdquo; were both produced by the TFS and WTAW radio in College Station, TX. These programs were originally distributed on a statewide, regional, and national basis, but many of them remain uncatalogued, hidden, and inaccessible. Over 27 hours of the TFS Radio Broadcasts Collection were digitized through a graduate student project and made available online in time for the 100th anniversary of the Texas A\u0026amp;M Forest Service in 2015. Future plans include further indexing of the programs\u0026rsquo; content and accessibility through an online DAMS.\u003c/p\u003e"]},"requiredStatement":{"label":{"en":["Attribution"]},"value":{"en":["\u003cp\u003eCopyright Association for Recorded Sound Collections\u003c/p\u003e"]}},"provider":[{"id":"https://arsc.aviaryplatform.com/aboutus","type":"Agent","label":{"en":["Association for Recorded Sound Collections"]},"homepage":[{"id":"https://arsc.aviaryplatform.com/","type":"Text","label":{"en":["Association for Recorded Sound Collections"]},"format":"text/html"}],"logo":[{"id":"https://d9jk7wjtjpu5g.cloudfront.net/organizations/logo_images/000/000/019/original/ARSC_Full_Logo_RGB_K.jpg?1605438091","type":"Image"}]}],"thumbnail":[{"id":"https://d9jk7wjtjpu5g.cloudfront.net/collection_resource_files/thumbnails/000/097/514/small/open-uri20200922-6764-f478a7_1600815999.jpg?1600801622","type":"Image","format":"image/jpeg"}],"items":[{"id":"https://arsc.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1144/collection_resources/29695/file/97514","type":"Canvas","label":{"en":["Media File 1 of 2 - open-uri20200922-6764-f478a7.mp4"]},"duration":1986.73067,"width":640,"height":360,"thumbnail":[{"id":"https://d9jk7wjtjpu5g.cloudfront.net/collection_resource_files/thumbnails/000/097/514/small/open-uri20200922-6764-f478a7_1600815999.jpg?1600801622","type":"Image","format":"image/jpeg"}],"items":[{"id":"https://arsc.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1144/collection_resources/29695/file/97514/content/1","type":"AnnotationPage","items":[{"id":"https://arsc.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1144/collection_resources/29695/file/97514/content/1/annotation/1","type":"Annotation","motivation":"painting","body":{"id":"https://aviary-p-arsc.s3.wasabisys.com/collection_resource_files/resource_files/000/097/514/original/open-uri20200922-6764-f478a7.mp4?1600801591","type":"Video","format":"video/mp4","duration":1986.73067,"width":640,"height":360},"target":"https://arsc.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1144/collection_resources/29695/file/97514","metadata":[]}]}],"annotations":[{"id":"https://arsc.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1144/collection_resources/29695/file/97514/transcript/19060","type":"AnnotationPage","label":{"en":["AUTO_TRINT_\"Let'™s Get Acquainted, Folks!\": Texas A\u0026M Forest Service Radio Broadcasts Collection, 1947-1959 [Transcript]"]},"items":[{"id":"https://arsc.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1144/collection_resources/29695/file/97514/transcript/19060/annotation/1","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"And now from the ridiculous to the ecological. Our next presentation is called Let's Get Acquainted, Folks. Texas A\u0026M. Texas A\u0026M. Forest Service Radio Broadcasts Collection from 1947 to 1959, brought to you by Greg Bailey and John Bonder on Graig as the university archivist and Klemens curator at Texas A\u0026M. And he's served in this capacity since January of 2014 as university archivist. He's responsible for day to day operations of the archives and related collections and is the primary spokesperson for Texas A\u0026M history. On behalf of the libraries, as Clements curator, he's responsible for the papers of two term governor William P. Clements. He holds an MLS from Indiana University specializing in archives and record management. And Mr. Bailey also serves on the isn't. Brazos is at the core of is a Brussels County Historical Commission, which works to ensure preservation of historic building sites, artifacts, documents and all other important parts of Texas history. John Vonderen is the digital archivist at the Cushing Memorial Library and Archives at Texas A\u0026M, and his position includes processing, describing and providing digital access to born digital and digitized materials and special collection materials. He previously worked as an audio preservation specialist at various college in Kentucky. The Special Collections and Archives area from 2005 to 2015. And I will hand it over to our presenters. Thank you very much. And Joe would rather the three not have been like part of community centers. We're going to keep in saying with your challenger. We'll be with you for the next 14 1/2 minutes. Brought to you with the best wishes and compliments from your state park service. And Uncle Sam Farr to serve. So just pull up a chair. You. Howdy. OK. We have actually 25 minutes. But the Texas A\u0026M four service radio broadcast collection features over twenty seven hours of digitized wildlife prevention.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://arsc.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1144/collection_resources/29695/file/97514#t=13.72,164.62"},{"id":"https://arsc.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1144/collection_resources/29695/file/97514/transcript/19060/annotation/2","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Public service radio programs from the mid 1940s through the 1950s actually goes back to 1946. The collection, spanning over 60 16 inch transcription discs, was digitized to commemorate the one hundredth anniversary of the Texas A\u0026M Forest Service in 2015. So we'll go through these programs and give you a sense of what they have. But first, we'll begin with some background information about the Texas Forest Service, some early radio at Texas A\u0026M and the establishment of the Cooperative Forest Fire Prevention campaigns. So let's get acquainted, folks. Sobering over a century of service and or service helped protect and conserve the lands and resources of the Lone Star State. The service established in 1915, just fifteen years after the establishment of U.S. war service. The TFSA was also the first state forestry agency to be created by part of a land grant college and as part of Texas A\u0026M University, the TFSA not only fights wildfires, but has an educational mission to increase public awareness about community protection and wildlife. Wildfire prevention. For over a century, they partnered with local and national agencies to provide programs, tools and resources to aid communities across the state, including using radio. So in early trading, technology was already part of the Annam Cadec Signal Corps. Kip can be seen here in nineteen seventeen. During World War One, the federal government actually sent troops, federal troops onto Adams campus to train them in Signal and Boser work because of the electrical engineering department at A\u0026M. Yeah, from a student club. In 1914, the Radio Engineering Research Program was established in the A\u0026M Electrical Engineering School. And like Greg said, often the Signal Corps would have projects that would be tested by the engineering school and then later put into practice in field training.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://arsc.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1144/collection_resources/29695/file/97514#t=165.25,305.58"},{"id":"https://arsc.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1144/collection_resources/29695/file/97514/transcript/19060/annotation/3","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"All right. One of the more notable achievements during the time of early radio broadcasts was a football game between Texas A\u0026M and to you. That's the University of Texas. To the uninitiated, on Thanksgiving Day 1921, cadet Major Harry Saunders, who can be seen in the lower right hand corner up there, operate the transmitter, sending signal from my college station to Austin. The broadcast was still on the radio telegraphy era where messages were messages were in Morse code. Saunders and football coaches had worked out a signal of how to describe the ball in the five yard line and or things like that, saying five y b or they'd worked out a signal, a short a short code for how they could release that information. Last year we had CBS Sports contact us. When they were coming into the broadcast game asking if we had a copy of this recording. Unfortunately, none exists. But by 1923, radio station WTA W was established and A\u0026M was broadcasting audio by radio to the Brazos Valley. WTW was the College Station operated by the Electrical Engineering Department and programed by the Agricultural Extension Service. The programs included lectures, broadcasts of athletic games. The Aggie band played every noon and they also had a weekly farm and home hour which featured Texas Forest Service radio programs such as The Tales of Texas. Yes, that's stirring fanfare. Let listeners know that the Tails of Texas program was coming on. It's produced at WTW 1946 for the TFSA. They were radio dramas. They highlighted events in Texas history. We have 10 programs in the collection of about half of them are relate incidents during Texas as the revolution in independence and then also in early Texas Republic. Then there also half hour about Texas first.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://arsc.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1144/collection_resources/29695/file/97514#t=311.91,476.0"},{"id":"https://arsc.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1144/collection_resources/29695/file/97514/transcript/19060/annotation/4","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"And some of those include the oil exploration railroads, the first railroad, the first telephone in Texas, barbed wire and new wood pulp newsprint. Sorry. So each program would end with this forestry moment. We listen to these and you wonder, like, what does this have to do with forestry? I mean, your history. But they would tie it into something about that incident or that story. And so they would let you know how important forestry is to Texas history and the economy. The tale, a moment, a moment, excerpts, we'll hear from the episode trouble, a French allegation about some pig trouble in Texas history. In the year 1843, The Count, our Ponsoldt that's Aranea, was an Austin representing the Republic of France as chargé d'affaires to the Republic of Texas. The count lived in the French legation, the most imposing house in Austin, attended by his seven very, very it was also in charge of his master's table of horses. One day Felipe was humming a tune as he entered the stable. Just say what is happening here. A big one of the pigs have been kuperberg and eating up on me. Oh, ow. Oh. You will not leave. I will show you what happens to pigs to eat up the corn belonging to my son does anything. Wait until I get my gun down from the rack. And your master, the hotelkeeper can serve your tea supper table. Now p you will have eaten your last bite. And it all just went downhill from there. And actually, as a result of this dispute between a local business owner, a Texan, and the servant of the French legation, the fledgling fledgling Republic of Texas lost out on a seven million dollar loan from France. So the forestry moment, if you're wondering how this all plays a role to capitalize on the fact that the French legation, as they said, the oldest house in Austin, was still standing in 1946.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://arsc.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1144/collection_resources/29695/file/97514#t=476.78,641.19"},{"id":"https://arsc.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1144/collection_resources/29695/file/97514/transcript/19060/annotation/5","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"And today, this building, now more than 100 years old, is defying time and the weather made from hands on, open, stoutly constructed. It has even yet in good repair through the years. The forest of Texas have furnished material for the houses. Texas today has nearly two million houses. Three quarters of these, or nearly one and a half million houses, are built from lumber grown in Texas. OK, so that goods Texas lumber makes a good start. Texas homes makes perfect sense to me. Moving on, most of the programs in the Texas Forest Service radio collection were produced as part of the CFP. The Cooperative Forest Fire Prevention Campaign started by the U.S. Forest Service. The State Forests. Forestry Services and the Ad Council 1942. The CFP is the longest continually running public service announcement campaign in U.S. history. The first annual mascotte of the CFP was actually Bambi Lyson from Disney for only one year. In 1958 1944, the Smokey Bear character was introduced. So I'll be back there. Folks, this is spooky. The laws are preventing bear. Smokey Bears become one of the most popular and effective characters used in the campaign's history. And the Texas Forest Service certainly capitalized on its appeal. These were all from Texas Forest Service publications. So. And one of the early CFF P radio programs that was aired on the in Texas and nationwide was Bill Scott, Forest Ranger. Grainco. I want that to be my theme song. Bill Scott, Forest Ranger, was another radio drama that was produced at WNYC in New York and by the New York City Board of Education. It followed this episodic radio drama format with a recurring characters they encountered. Ranger Bill and learned aspects of forest conservation. And through these adventures. Now the episode where oh, where is Smokey Bear? That was in the first series is one of the earlier mentions of use of Smokey Bear as a character or in a in an actual drama, not a visual college.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://arsc.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1144/collection_resources/29695/file/97514#t=642.42,830.53"},{"id":"https://arsc.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1144/collection_resources/29695/file/97514/transcript/19060/annotation/6","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Is that all? Ranger Bill said just that we should meet him at the Blackhawk Trail. Nothing else. Well, what about Smokey Little Bear Cub we found in the cave? Ranger Bill was going to take us to see Smokey today. I can't seem to remember. Thank you, Bill Stokes. Pretty fast. And he said, hey, Raymie, here's Ranger Bill off the road there in the woods. I say in Juna's weather. Hello there, Ranger Bill. Hi, John. What's up, Ranger Bill? What are we meeting here for? I thought you'd let us visit Smokey today. Ranger Bill. Where is he? And we see him one question at a time. Boy, it looks as though Smokey just wasn't hankering to see any visitors today. What do you mean by that Ranger Bill? He's gone. Fan gone. Gone where the rascal broke out of his wife pen at the game warden station early this morning and he was last seen heading in this direction. That's why I asked you to meet me here. Well, what are we waiting for? Let's get going and find smoke. Sure. He can't get very far. County Ranger Bill for that broken leg of it. I'm happy to say that Smokey's leg wasn't broken after all. I'm just a pretty bad sprain. Bad enough, though, that he still ought to be taking it easy a while and not go wandering off through the woods. You mean he's not strong enough? Is that it, Uncle Bill? Yes, John. Don't forget, Smokey can't do much more than just hobble along. He's favoring that bag leg of his, you see, without protection by a mother, very liable to be hurt by a big wildcat maybe, or some other rhino. Oh, that would be terrible, Uncle Bill, I'll say. What about some Hunter fans? I don't doubt that some thoughtless hunter might take a shot at Smokey for the little basket.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://arsc.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1144/collection_resources/29695/file/97514#t=831.59,919.59"},{"id":"https://arsc.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1144/collection_resources/29695/file/97514/transcript/19060/annotation/7","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Hey, get off. But let's not worry about that, Sam. Well, yeah, maybe influence. Now, don't worry, I'll smoke. Everything worked out fine, man. For Smokey the Bill Scott programs were highly regarded receiving citations from the school school broadcast committee in 1947. It was also popular being broadcast on three different radio stations in 1952, 53 and 54, according to this label. The 1950s would introduce one of the most popular or service programs. Well, thank you, boys. Thank you a lot. Brad, do you get it? Yes, sir. It's time once again. Forget it. And three, not. Yes. Jelly and the knot heads began there. Or your run of programs in 1950. The series were produced by the CFP in Bougere City, Louisiana. In the heart of the Piney Woods region of Louisiana, Arkansas and Texas, the hosts Joseph Rodney Jelly Elliott, was a talk show and radio performer who led a band of K.A. Elby. Alexandria, Louisiana, a 1952 Life magazine profile, states that Jelly suffered a breakdown and developed ulcers, forcing him to retire from radio studios to the quiet of the Watchtower River area. The knot heads three and sometimes four, were a mix of professional touring and recording musicians from the region. The lineup changed over time in a different series, but some of the noted ones here include Deacon Anderson and Steel Guitar. He was from Port Arthur and Beaumont area. He recorded with Lync Davis in the Bluebonnet Playboys, co-wrote Rag Mop with Johnny Lee Wills and all later Grand. Deacon Anderson Studio in Beaumont, Texas for many years. Robert Shavers was a fiddle fiddler on the first two series, and he from Monroe, Louisiana. He had recorded with Bill Nettles for Mercury in 1949 and later with his group, the Western Cherokees on Star Day in the 50s.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://arsc.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1144/collection_resources/29695/file/97514#t=920.09,1051.83"},{"id":"https://arsc.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1144/collection_resources/29695/file/97514/transcript/19060/annotation/8","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Jack Youngblood and Lou Lou Millay were in the later knock heads lineup. And they also they toured and recorded with Lefty Frizzell. The Joli Elliott shows followed a pretty standard radio format with that interaction theme you heard at the very beginning of the show. And then they also had three musical numbers in interspersed with the sort of folksy. Forestry. Message. We're going to hear a excerpt, which is a medley of three different tunes one. The first one is the Liohn McAfee classic Panhandle rag played by Deacon Anderson. Then the all time filled tune Ida Red, played by junk Jack Youngblood, but featured the chicken in a bread pan. Lyrics like The Shelton Brothers. And then finally, the gospel classic. I'll Fly Away, which has Jelly's daughters, Shirley, June and Joe seem more wound up. Hilary Duff Double Ethiopia. They need a butane burning guitar with little bit of hand. All right. And not doing it randomly, you know. No, no. So, as John mentioned, the musical performances were interspersed with folksy radio stories and conversational advice from the old Woods. Writer Julie Elliott. While they may have been adlib homilist, Jelly was fully capable of delivering a tight 30 second spot. The next couple show the difference here. And when I went up there, you don't want to pound fans. I found a bunch of bankrupt and embarrassed going in. Come just as fast as I could. Were going down to the side of that little mountain creek down Whitney feet and coming back up and walking up and down a trail and had meant that they're married, you know, tell her that far. This just ain't no death. Hello, friends. This is your old woods. Radic delegated, hoping you stop whatever you're doing for just a little bit.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://arsc.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1144/collection_resources/29695/file/97514#t=1053.36,1233.69"},{"id":"https://arsc.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1144/collection_resources/29695/file/97514/transcript/19060/annotation/9","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"And listen. Did you know that nearly 20 thousand forest fires start each year from carelessness with burning trash brush? Well, that's a fact. So please be careful. If you've got any burning to do, pick the right day in the weather, plow, write a good line around, have to water and help him tell the fire warden when you're going to burn. Remember, only you can keep far from running while. Virgilio Elliott programs proved to be one of the very popular and very most popular radio with the audiences in the 1950s series was carried on on around 700 stations worldwide are nationwide and over 20 in Texas alone. In addition to the 1950 to Life magazine profile, it received multiple promotional write ups in the Texas forced news. During that time. Perhaps in response to the popularity of this program, the Texas Forest Service launched a similar series in short little series in 1954. So Charlie Adams was a regional dance hall fixture. He'd been a staff musician on radio station to be a CEO before World War Two is from Waco, Texas. After the war, Adams briefly toured with Hank Thompson before being signed to a solo contract on Decca 552. Charlie Adams and his touring band Western All Stars were at their career peak touring with Hank Williams and backing up. They were on their last tour of Williams and now also backing the likes of Marty Robbins, Webb, Pearson, Ernest Tubb when they pass through Texas in 53 after Decca lost interest. Adams was signed to Columbia by Don Law and then for the first time, the his touring band was featured in the studio. Their first cut was a actually law made them record this tune called Hey Liberace, which was a novelty hit and turned out to be their best seller.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://arsc.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1144/collection_resources/29695/file/97514#t=1233.87,1376.06"},{"id":"https://arsc.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1144/collection_resources/29695/file/97514/transcript/19060/annotation/10","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"But by late 54, the influence of television, rock and roll were showing up. And at WTW, Charlie and All Stars were plugging their latest singles while the announcer John Skogen would offer sage advice on controlling scrubby hardwood trees, fuel burning tips and the latest advancement in forest fire control. So here we have some a little medley of some live excerpts of two Charlie's singles. I'm a real daddy and G, but it's dry in Texas. And in between is a message from the Texas Forest Service. Maria only became the game that I can trust. I'm very happy and I'm leaving the. I hear the train coming and going. We don't leave you. Donna. And the day well, Charlie, would you like to know something about how the Texas Forest Service uses airplanes to spot forest fires? How about that? I sure would. Got an active unit of CHP was organized on January 4th, 1944, and nine planes were made available to the CHP. That was just the beginning. And from that star has drawn the Texas Forest Service's own aerial patrol. But by and take not a cloud in the sky, although a drop of water finding water body part. And we keep hitting all, well, our backyard. Bye bye bye. All right. Charlie Adams programs are the last locally produced shows from the TFSA collection. That's not the same. No more programs were produced by the TFSA. But several changes may explain why more haven't been found. By the 1950s, Katie AM in Lufkin had been established as the flagship station for the Texas for the Forest Service. Around the same time on the leadership of new director l fall here, the TFSA was decentralized into four departments and six administrative districts, and radio programs were being distributed to local school districts.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://arsc.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1144/collection_resources/29695/file/97514#t=1376.96,1528.52"},{"id":"https://arsc.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1144/collection_resources/29695/file/97514/transcript/19060/annotation/11","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"A departments and television was becoming the new media for horser education. So for our last two series, we're going to return to National CFF P campaign programs that showed a marked shift to more popular entertainment and celebrities. The 1956 singing Woodsman and Sons of the Pioneers featured some well-known personalities. Billy Johnson, You're Singing Woodsmen, was a seasoned performer and mainstay of 1950s Kittie television shows in the Washington, D.C. market. Then the sons of the pioneers were already legends of Western music, cowboy music with over 20 years of recordings and many Hollywood movies to their credit. Then also, by this time, the iconic Smokey Bear now had a living symbol in the National Zoo, a hit song written in 1952. A little bit before and a voice thanks to D.C. radio personality Jackson Weaver. So in contrast to the melodramatic adventures and the downhome dancehall tunes, Johnson and translucence as with his relaxed style. While the sons of the pioneers croon to the familiar cowboy songs, then then the conservation advice was passed along by the performers or directly from Smokey himself. So here we'll have a little medley of each one. Hi there, friends. I'm Village Johnson Singh and Woods. Glad you could come this way up the tree. How about having a seat beside me here on this log under the old pine tree? Mighty pretty out here in the forest, isn't it? That's cause we'd get fired for running wild through here. You know, we thought you might enjoy taking time out of your moment. Song and storytelling. Oh, through a. Way to. Well, look who's coming up the trail that begins live with his Rangers hat and shovel and all talked out, and Doug agrees. He's the friend of all who love the opto.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://arsc.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1144/collection_resources/29695/file/97514#t=1529.13,1672.73"},{"id":"https://arsc.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1144/collection_resources/29695/file/97514/transcript/19060/annotation/12","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"He's the popular Ken. He's Smokey Bear with a special message. Hello there, folks. Seeing as how I am a full fledged nonpartizan candidate looking for your support. You want to know what kind of a platform I'm running on? Here it is. I'm for green, productive forests, clear lakes and clean, steady running streams. Enough food to go around for livestock and for my wildlife friends. Pretty campgrounds and picnic spots. I'm for a woods and forests free from wild fire. How about you? Smokey. That's all. That was how it. Smokey 20/20. So eventually smoking would become the host, this time with Will No movie and television stars. These five minute spots featured Smoky introducing the star who deliver an important forest fire prevention prevention message. The tightly scripted message would sometimes be try to tie in to the particular star's newsworthiness without mentioning specific products or shows. Miss Diana, you keep telling folks to see the USA. How about telling them to be careful with matches and smokes while they're doing it? I'll be proud to smoking. This is a beautiful country. We live in the forests and the grasslands, the clear lakes and fast running streams helped to make her beautiful and so enjoyable for all of us. But we must keep these resources free from careless fire friends. Every car has at least one ashtray. Let's remember to use it every time we have a smoke. Let's go on seeing the USA and loving her, but let's protect her at the same time. Thank you, Dana. Makes you wonder what kind of car Dana was talking about there. You would even enlist Raymond Burr to be making a passionate plea for fire safety. It's Raymond Burr. I've asked him to take our case to the people.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://arsc.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1144/collection_resources/29695/file/97514#t=1673.96,1810.42"},{"id":"https://arsc.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1144/collection_resources/29695/file/97514/transcript/19060/annotation/13","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Ladies and gentlemen, if just once you had to work side by side with desperate firefighters, knowing the panic that the flaming monster forest fire sometimes sets up in a man, by then, I'm sure you think twice about flipping a lighted match or a cigaret into dry grass or leaves. If just once you had to walk the silent, desolate trail that has any trail through the black and gray dust of burned over land. Well, then I think you would be very careful with your campfire. Case closed. The sons of the pioneers remained on board. They would offer a musical selection before they would sign off with Smokey. Before we sign off, we'll let them sing us down the hall. Down along the sleepy Rio Grande. Do they know where the plains do know they'd be real? And the. This the that delay. Roll over, then they don't like the bad over the plains. Do I need BVO? And while these programs were distributed nationally, many of them are relatively few are cataloged or available publicly in library or archival collections. The good news is we have digitized all these. As we stated, they're preserved in Texas. Texas A\u0026M University archives and the student that preserved them has a Web site that they're all available through. And this is the address. But we we've even had an inquiry that a local station wanted to rebroadcast some of these and that our service gave their OK for that. We was. Stay tuned. If you're in the getting this gettings Texas, we don't even pick it up and in College Station, but you might be able to hear it as you're traveling down along the Rio Grande or. Yeah. So that's it. 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