Units 1-12 (to accompany Treviño's Spoken Spanish: Basic course)
Collection Technical Notes:
The author’s name does not appear on the discs but is supplied from the notes of N.A. McQuown. 11/10/88 “Identical with the edition published for the United States Armed Forces Institute”–from the title page. Note: the author’s name is given as “S.N. Treviño” in the text; his given name is supplied from the notes of N.A. McQuown.
The authors read their own dialogues, Nos. 1-25 (recorded at the University of Wisconsin–Madison in the summer session of 1987).
Collection Technical Notes:
Cassette is the copy produced at the University of Wisconsin at Madison in 1987 and donated to the LLA by J. Lindholm in Oct. 1987. WAVE files are converted to MP3s.
An English-speaking American man reads the English portions of the 12 units, and a native speaker (male) supplies the Thai. [The texts produced by U.S.A.F.I. were reissued after the war by Henry Holt in 1947-48. They are to be found in Regenstein Library.]
Collection Technical Notes:
Phonograph records are the discs issued by U.S.A.F.I. [United States Armed Forces Institute] during World War II. "Set 1" of the tapes was dubbed from the records in the Old Lab in the 1950s; a special feature of the set is the addition (at the beginning of Tape 1) of "Tone Drills"--recorded live in the Old Lab. "Set 2" is another dub from the same records made in 1975. Note: For clarity Set 1 is to be preferred (and is the set that was digitized). The WAVE files are now converted to MP3s.
Contents are unknown except for the notations on each side,;which read: “Maggie/’41/spoiled”.
Collection Technical Notes:
Phonograph record (”Fairchild Professional Record” brand) was found along with the two discs of “Mandarin of Pekin” (Shelf code: 31.S.1 (OD) and CHI 31.S.2 (OD)).
An announcer (?) opens the recording session and presides over the proceedings, which are taking place on 29 December 1940 (the day after a "Harlequin Ball"). Various anonymous men and women make remarks and speeches, then sing old-fashioned songs. The place of the recording is unknown.
Collection Technical Notes:
Phonograph records are 10-inch, needle-cut, plastic discs of the Audiodisc brand. The date of their creation is known, but their provenance remains a mystery. The WAVE files are now converted to MP3s.
The discs were manufactured by the SoundScriber Corp., New Haven, CT. Two of them have recording on both sides, one has a recording on one side. The identification of the language as English is for convenience only. (Clarence E. Parmenter Collection)
Various lecturers discuss Max Weber, Karl Marx and Sigmund Freud.
Collection Technical Notes:
Masters are probably the live recordings. These cassettes were recorded so that students who could not attend the lectures could listen to them in the Language Lab. WAVE files are converted to MP3s.