Phil Gries, growing up in Brooklyn in the 1950's, and 60's, audio taped thousands
of hours off his family TV. Gries wired his reel to reel audio tape recorder to the
back of his 1949 16" Andrea television set. He captured kid's shows, variety shows,
news broadcasts, talk shows, and sports. His private daily mission in those days,
long before video recorders, was to preserve, as best he could, everything he could.
It turns out that thousands of his air checks represent the only known surviving TV
broadcasts in existence, since most of the live and video-taped television broadcasts
of the 1950's, 1960's and early 1970's were erased, destroyed, or never recorded.
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PRESERVING & ARCHIVING THE SOUND OF LOST & UNOBTAINABLE ORIGINAL TV (1946 - 1982)
ACCREDITED BY GUINNESS WORLD RECORDS
"Preserving & disseminating important TV Audio Air Checks, the video considered otherwise lost."
-Library of Congress
UNIQUE in the WORLD audio air check recordings by 20-year-old Phil Gries, archiving the first, second bulletins & initial NBC TV broadcast coverage of President John F. Kennedy's assassination. Not recorded by NBC or any other resource in the country.
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