[{"id":"8315","cataloger_name":["Leah,Van Dyk"],"partnerInstitution":["University of Calgary"],"collection_source_collection":["Alden Nowlan fonds"],"source_collection_label":["Alden Nowlan fonds"],"collection_contributing_unit":["University of Calgary, Archives and Special Collections"],"source_collection_uri":[""],"collection_image_url":[""],"collection_source_collection_id":[""],"persistent_url":["https://searcharchives.ucalgary.ca/alden-nowlan-fonds"],"item_title":["Notes on Frankenstein. Priceless! / Ypres : 1915"],"item_title_source":["Transcribed from the artifact"],"item_language":["English"],"item_production_context":["Documentary recording"],"item_identifiers":["[3.3.4]"],"rights":["In Copyright (InC)"],"rights_notes":["Enters Public Domain at the end of 2025"],"creator_names":["Nowlan, Alden"],"creator_names_search":["Nowlan, Alden"],"creators":["[{\"url\":\"http://viaf.org/viaf/61671170\",\"name\":\"Nowlan, Alden\",\"dates\":\"1933-1983\",\"notes\":\"\",\"nation\":[],\"role\":[\"Speaker\"]}]"],"contributors_names":["Learning, Walter"],"contributors_names_search":["Learning, Walter"],"contributors":["[{\"url\":\"http://viaf.org/viaf/11093579\",\"name\":\"Learning, Walter\",\"dates\":\"1938-2020\",\"notes\":\"\",\"nation\":[],\"role\":[\"Speaker\"]}]"],"Speaker_name":["Learning, Walter"],"Performance_Date":[1975],"material_description":["[{\"side\":\"A and B\",\"image\":\"\",\"other\":\"\",\"extent\":\"1/8 inch\",\"AV_types\":\"Audio\",\"tape_brand\":\"sountrac\",\"generations\":\"\",\"Conservation\":\"\",\"equalization\":\"\",\"playback_mode\":\"\",\"playing_speed\":\"\",\"sound_quality\":\"Good\",\"recording_type\":\"Analogue\",\"storage_capacity\":\"\",\"physical_condition\":\"Good\",\"track_configuration\":\"\",\"material_designation\":\"Cassette\",\"physical_composition\":\"Magnetic Tape\",\"accompanying_material\":\"\",\"other_physical_description\":\"\"}]"],"material_designations":["Cassette"],"physical_compositions":["Magnetic Tape"],"recording_type":["Analogue"],"AV_type":["Audio"],"digital_description":["[{\"file_url\":\"\",\"file_path\":\"\",\"filename\":\"AN_523_92.21.3.3.4\",\"channel_field\":\"\",\"sample_rate\":\"\",\"duration\":\"T00:23:11\",\"precision\":\"\",\"size\":\"42.44 MB\",\"bitrate\":\"\",\"encoding\":\"\",\"contents\":\"\",\"notes\":\"\",\"title\":\"\",\"credit\":\"\",\"caption\":\"\",\"content_type\":\"\",\"featured\":\"\",\"public_access_url\":\"\"}]"],"Dates":["[{\"date\":\"1975\",\"type\":\"Performance Date\",\"notes\":\"Dates supplied through research for copyright.\",\"source\":\"\"}]"],"Location":["[{\"url\":\"\",\"venue\":\"\",\"notes\":\"\",\"address\":\"\",\"latitude\":\"\",\"longitude\":\"\"}]"],"content_notes":["Cassette has note “Priceless!” written underneath the title “Notes on Frankenstein.”\n- Tape begins midway through recording these notes (speaker says “the third thing…”). Speaker is likely Walter Learning.\n- Discussion of Frankenstein radio play.\n- At - [00:05:36] tape stops and restarts, and now Alden Nowlan is present and discussing with Learning.\n- [00:15:45] recording stops and restarts; Alden Nowlan testing recording equipment.\n- [00:16:15] recording of CBC Showcase Anthology Series. Remembrance Day program with writing by Canadian writers on the first and second world wars. This section of the recording has significant hiss.\n- [00:18:22] recording cuts to later in CBC program, “Ypres: 1915” by Alden Nowlan\n"],"contents":["Unknown [likely Walter Learning]\n[00:00:01]\nDiscusses \"Frankenstein\" radio play.\nAlden Nowlan\n[00:05:36]\nTape stope and restarts, continues discussion with Unknown [likely Walter Learning].\nAlden Nowlan\n[15:45]  \nTests recording equipment. \nAlden Nowlan\n[00:18:22]\n\"Ypres: 1915\"."],"Note":["[{\"note\":\"\",\"type\":\"\"}]"],"Related_works":["[{\"url\":\"\",\"citation\":\"The Mysterious Naked Man (1969)\"}]"],"_version_":1853670558437212165,"timestamp":"2026-01-07T15:00:02.646Z","score":3.6456704}]