AFN - the American Forces Network.

Format:

Video

Contributor:

United States. Army Pictorial Center.

United States. Dept. of the Army.

Series:

Academic Video Online

Big picture ; episode 583

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

American Forces Network.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (29 min.).

Place of Publication:

Washington D.C. : Army Pictorial Service, 1962.

Language Note:

In English.

Original language in English.

Summary:

For twenty years one of the United States' largest radio networks has been broadcasting news - information -music - sports - and dramatic programs to an estimated audience of twenty million - yet has never been heard in the United States. The American Forces Network, Europe (known to its audience as AFN) has served the military community in Europe since it began broadcasting from a basement studio in London, England, on July 4, 1943. This year marks its twentieth anniversary of broadcast operations. This episode captures on film the sight and sound of this unique radio network as it goes about its daily business. Filmed in Frankfurt - Berlin - Munich and Orleans, France.

Notes:

Title from resource description page (viewed Nov. 26, 2010).

Previously published as DVD.

OCLC:

701797504