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Ray Forrest on giving Albert Einstein a tour of NBC and on Einstein's impressions of radio 01:41
Interview: Ray Forrest | Person: Albert Einstein
Ray Forrest on his first job as a junior radio announcer for Pat Kelly and why he finally joined AFRA (the precursor to AFTRA) 02:09
Interview: Ray Forrest | Person: Pat Kelly
Ray Forrest on his next step up at NBC after being a tour guide -- announcer 02:25
Interview: Ray Forrest | Profession: Announcer
Ray Forrest on his next step up at NBC after being a tour guide -- announcer 02:25
Interview: Ray Forrest | Profession: Hosts
Ray Forrest on how senior radio announcers made money -- commercials -- and what "standby duty" was 01:22
Interview: Ray Forrest | Profession: Announcer
Ray Forrest on how senior radio announcers made money -- commercials -- and what "standby duty" was 01:22
Interview: Ray Forrest | Profession: Hosts
Ray Forrest on how he finally got his start as a real radio announcer 02:34
Interview: Ray Forrest | Profession: Announcer
Ray Forrest on the path to his start as a real radio announcer 02:34
Interview: Ray Forrest | Profession: Hosts
Ray Forrest on his first job as a junior radio announcer and why he finally joined AFRA (the precursor to AFTRA) 02:09
Interview: Ray Forrest | Profession: Hosts
Ray Forrest on his first job as a junior radio announcer and why he finally joined AFRA (the precursor to AFTRA) 02:09
Interview: Ray Forrest | Profession: Announcer
Ray Forrest on radio as the dominant medium at the time he started his career 00:31
Interview: Ray Forrest
Ray Forrest on his first job at NBC radio -- as a page -- and how he rose through the ranks; on NBC tours 02:37
Interview: Ray Forrest
Ray Forrest on his next step up at NBC after being a tour guide -- announcer 02:25
Interview: Ray Forrest
Ray Forrest on his father trying to bring his family to America from Germany, but instead serving in World War I for Germany 01:38
Interview: Ray Forrest | Topic: War
Ray Forrest on his father trying to bring his family to America from Germany, but instead serving in World War I for Germany 01:38
Interview: Ray Forrest | Topic: Historic Events and Social Change
Ray Forrest on rumblings about television when he worked in NBC radio 01:31
Interview: Ray Forrest | Topic: Television Industry
Ray Forrest on his first job as a junior radio announcer and why he finally joined AFRA (the precursor to AFTRA) 02:09
Interview: Ray Forrest | Topic: Pivotal Career Moments
Ray Forrest on his first job as a junior radio announcer and why he finally joined AFRA (the precursor to AFTRA) 02:09
Interview: Ray Forrest | Topic: First Big Break
On the shows he worked on as a junior radio announcer at NBC; on his first job as an announcer for experimental NBC TV in New York; on studio 3H - NBC's experimental television studio; on early TV equipment; on how the public first reacted to television 14:49
Interview: Ray Forrest
On early television makeup; on an early TV news simulcast with Lowell Thomas and Thomas' beard being problematic on camera; on subbing for Lowell Thomas in studio; on problematic cables in early TV studios and doing dramatic teleplays on Friday nights; on Broadway actors adjusting to television; on working with early NBC television program manager Warren Wade; on Dinah Shore suffering under the hot lights of early television 12:54
Interview: Ray Forrest
Ray Forrest on an early TV news simulcast with Lowell Thomas and Thomas' beard being problematic on camera; on subbing for Lowell Thomas in studio 04:14
Interview: Ray Forrest | Genre: News and Documentary
Ray Forrest on the shows he worked on as a junior radio announcer at NBC -- NBC Symphony Orchestra with Arturo Toscanini 01:53
Interview: Ray Forrest | Person: Arturo Toscanini
Ray Forrest on the effort and money that David Sarnoff put into NBC experimental television 01:32
Interview: Ray Forrest | Person: David Sarnoff
Ray Forrest on studio 3H - NBC's experimental television studio, lighting engineer Bill Eddy, and the heat generated by early TV lights 02:36
Interview: Ray Forrest | Person: Bill Eddy
Ray Forrest on an early TV news simulcast with Lowell Thomas and Thomas' beard being problematic on camera; on subbing for Lowell Thomas in studio 04:14
Interview: Ray Forrest | Person: Lowell Thomas
Ray Forrest on working with early NBC television program manager Warren Wade 01:00
Interview: Ray Forrest | Person: Warren Wade
Ray Forrest on Dinah Shore suffering under the hot lights of early television 01:44
Interview: Ray Forrest | Person: Dinah Shore