Official visit to the PBS Records Library.
צילום מופיע ב"הגלגל" כרך ג, גליון מס' 35
בחדר התקליטים של שירות השידור. משמאל לימיו: אדווין סמואל, וויליאם פיליפס וד''ר פ. איידלוט.
Palestine Broadcasting Service: Known Extant Recordings
British Library
PBS Catalogue numbers of Recordings
Title: 10,000 years of PBS (Palestine Broadcasting Service) - incomplete
PBS Catalogue Number: PBS 3858; PBS 3868; PBS 3889; PBS 3869; PBS 3859
Contributor: Keating, Rex, 1910-2005 (producer?)
Notes:
Recording date: 1946-03-19
Broadcast title: 10,000 years of PBS
Genre: Radio programmes
Genre: Comedy
Collection title: Rex Keating Collection
Recording Notes: 10" and 12" glass-based acetate disc recordings on 5 'Presto' labelled discs (disc nos. 3858 (10"), 3868 (12"), 3889 (12"), 3869 (12" disc with large section missing), 3859 (12").
Duration: 22 min.
Item notes: An April Fool's Day spoof (in English language) celebrating the 10th anniversary of the Palestine Broadcasting Service. The extant recordings include segment takes which would not all have been transmitted. Content as described by the recording transfer engineer: 'Two takes of the opening; a spoof appreciation of Caliph Omar (intercut with traditional music); a feature on the Battle of Hittin (aka Battle of Hattin) with two takes of the tag at the end of that scene; a scene about Amalfi(?); 'Jerusalem Calling' - a spoof news bulletin about the invasion of Palestine by Egyptian forces read by 'Flora Cameron'; and a piece about General Allenby.' Remainder of programme is missing.
Other reference no: C1853
March 19, 1946; March 21, 1946 and March 23, 1946
L379
Address by Sir John Shaw following the King David Hotel massacre, 1946
Duration 1 min 36 sec
John Shaw Chief Secretary of ther Government of Palestine on the day folllowing the King David Hot6el bombing in Jerusalem, July 22, 1946
Date of recording: July 23, 1946
Title: Scrapbook 1936-1946
PBS 3974
Habima Hanna Rovina
Israel Rokach, Mayor of Tel Aviv
Bible reading shlomo ben-
physical exercise Michael Ben Hanan
Title: Welcome 1948
Contributor: Keating, Rex, 1910-2005
Other Titles:
Collection title: Rex Keating Collection
Place Name: Jerusalem
Notes:
Recording: PBS (Palestine Broadcasting Service) 1947-12-31;
- Keating, Rex, 1910-2005 (speaker, male; presenter)
Duration: 4 min. 15 sec.
Item notes: Rex Keating delivers new year greetings from Jerusalem to the peoples of the United Nations, the people of Britain, the people of Palestine and others.
Broadcaster: PBS (Palestine Broadcasting Service) 1947-12-31
PBS 6613A
The General's Helmet
Date of recording February 6, 1948
Rex Keating
Robert Finigan
PBS 6797A
[Extract from PBS News Bulletin]
Long, Lesley (speaker, female, newsreader
Recording date: March 11, 1948
Recording notes: Original recording made on nitrate/alloy acetate disc.
Duration: 3 min 10 secs
Item notes; News bulletin citing the supposed suicide of Czech Foreign Minister, Dr. jan Masaryk, on 10th March 1948. Finnish - Soviet pact progress.
PBS 6768; PBS 6769; PBS 6770; PBS 6771; PBS 6772; PBS 6773
A double Bill
1. Dog days - a tragedy in one act
2. Murder by Midnight or arsenic for three.
Murder by midnight: You've all of you seen American murder films at the cinema and several of you, maybe, have sometimes arrived at the cinema late and come in in the middle of one of them. Well this evening we're going to do you a play and we want you to imagine that's what's happened....
Duration 31 min 00 sec
Date of Recording March, 7, 1948
PBS 6835; PBS 6836; PBS 6837; PBS 6838.
Title: We beg to differ (or hands across the turntable)
Duration: 33 min 53 sec
a satirical comedy/parody programme "a trifling effusion, an inconsequential melange arranged by Bob Finigan and disarranged by Rex Keating" humorous chats, music from gramophone records and poetry readings. Keating was assistant director of the PBS
Date of Recording: March 18, 1948
PBS 6870 ; PBS 6871; PBS 6872; PBS 6873; PBS 6874
Funny Business original recording made on ten sides of a set of 5 PBS discs
Item notes: A satirical comedy/propaganda programme transmitted from a studio in Jerusalem during the final weeks of the British Mandate for Palestine. Introduced as "Funny Business - an excursion into the lower forms of humour, touching lightly on the salesman, the lodger, the doctor and the advertiser."
Total for 5 discs: 34 min 23 secs.
Rex Keating (producer)
Cast: Robert Finigan; Reg Mason; Lesley Long; Joyce Stubbs; Dennis Smith.
Date of recording: March 25, 1948
PBS 6910 and PBS 6911
Speech to the people of Palestine by General Alan Cunningham, High Commissioner of Palestine
Final address and appeal by General Alan Cunningham high Commissioner of palestine in the final weeks of the British Mandate.
Duration 4 minutes 09 sec
Date of Recording April 3, 1948
PBS 6919 ; PBS 6920; PBS 6921; PBS 6922; PBS 6923
April's Children - An April Fool Programme
Item Notes: A satirical comedy/propaganda and music program transmitted from a studio in Jerusalem
Robert Finigan: scriptwriter, producer;
Robert Finigan: The Old Man;
Rex Keating The Unhappy Victim;
Reg Mason The Official;
Lesley Long: Lady Priscilla Pencil;
Dennis Smith: The Guide, and the soldier;
unidentified orchestra
Duration 29 min 05 sec
Date of recording: April 1, 1948
Title: Battle of PBS Studios, Palestine
Place Name: PBS Studios, Jerusalem
Notes:
Recording date: 1948-04-26
Collection title: Rex Keating Collection
Recording Notes: Original recording made by PBS on nitrate/alloy acetate disc.
Duration: 3 min. 32 sec.
Item notes: Actuality recording of a gun battle at the studios of the Palestine Broadcasting Service, 26th April 1948. Recording assumed to have been made by PBS staff inside the studio.