Conversations 1-21, copyright Henry Holt and Company, Inc., 1948
Collection Technical Notes:
Collection consists of two copies of the same album, though Set One is lacking the fifth disc and Set Two is lacking the fourth disc. (Clarence E. Parmenter Collection). RE-DIGITIZE THIS?
Léon Bernard ("Sociétaire de la Comédie Française") performs this soliloquy from the play.
Collection Technical Notes:
Phonograph record is Side A of the 10-inch, 78 rpm, monophonic lacquer Pathé disc, cat. no. X.3.997 with the matrix number N250106. (Clarence E. Parmenter Collection) WAVE file is now converted to an MP3.
Weill himself, as well as other native French speakers (male and female), renders a selection of passages from French literature. The “méthode” apparently aims at teaching French via literary texts.
Collection Technical Notes:
Phonograph records are the 10-inch, 78 rpm, monophonic lacquer Pathé discs. They probably succeed the series issued c. 1935 on 80 rpm discs (q.v.).(Clarence E. Parmenter Collection) WAVE files are now converted to MP3s.
Contributor:
Weill, Louis; [M[onsieur] [?] Alexandre; and [?] Dorival
Professional actor interprets this scene from the classic play.
Collection Technical Notes:
Phonograph record is the 10-inch, 78 rpm, monophonic lacquer Selmer disc, cat. no. SC36. (Clarence E. Parmenter Collection) WAVE file is now converted to an MP3.
“Vi-Conte is an interactive videodisc designed to teach French as a second language in a French-Canadian cultural setting. Vi-Conte first presents a ‘video story’ [without words]...then gradually introduces the language to tell that story.”--from the cover
