Amazing Short Film on Old Time Radio Sound Effects: “Back of the Mike“ (1938)

Insider’s view of the 1930s radio studio showing the production of dramatic sound effects. A boy lies on his bed (wearing a white shirt and a necktie), listening to a radio western. We see the images the radio creates in his mind, then we cut to the studio, where we see that this whole fantasy world is created at a frantic pace by announcers in three-piece suits and sound-effects technicians operating incredibly complicated jury-rigged devices. We get to see such things as one guy doing both voices in a