Not by the Direct Method., Too much to hope for, that this was recorded and saved.

Too much to hope for, that this was recorded and saved.

From the Times-Picayune of New Orleans, 2 November 1937:

Thrill—The inside story of zombies, Haiti’s “living dead,” will be dramatized as Charles Martin’s “thrill of the week” on the program over NBC-WSMB at 7 p.m. And the first zombie ever to broadcast, Juano Robez, will be presented at the microphone.

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I’m preparing a number of pieces on the ethnography and mythology of zombies and their ilk, so this would be well worth...
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Apparently, was part of the show “Johnny Presents…”, a precursor to the Philip Morris Playhouse, produced by WMAQ...
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Quotes and thoughts I lack the time or energy to pursue more fully and turn into proper blog posts.

Title taken from Lytton Strachey's Eminent Victorians:

"It is not by the direct method of a scrupulous narration that the explorer of the past can hope to depict that singular epoch. If he is wise, he will adopt a subtler strategy. He will attack his subject in unexpected places; he will fall upon the flank, or the rear; he will shoot a sudden, revealing searchlight into obscure recesses, hitherto undivined. He will row out over that great ocean of material, and lower down into it, here and there, a little bucket, which will bring up to the light of day some characteristic specimen, from those far depths, to be examined with a careful curiosity."

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