On June 13th, 2008 Christine Karatnytsky (not verified) says:
Here in the Theatre Division, I am on the brink of finishing a processing project involving the scripts for The Cavalcade of America. This was a well-known and popular weekly radio program produced by and for DuPont as part of a public relations effort to improve the corporation's image in the aftermath of World War I when they'd been accused of war profiteering by the Nye Committee. Each homespun tale of founding fathers' wisdom, pilgrims' determination, revolutionary courage, intrepid westward expansion, ingenious invention, female trailblazers, World War II heroism and, generally, plucky patriotism against all odds was accompanied with an advertising story trumpeting the timely invention of another new product by DuPont, like nylon fabric (and many many others). These scripts will be found eventully in *T-MSS 1942-004.
regards,
Christine Karatnytsky
Scripts Librarian
NYPL for the Performing Arts
DuPont and the invention of nylon
Here in the Theatre Division, I am on the brink of finishing a processing project involving the scripts for The Cavalcade of America. This was a well-known and popular weekly radio program produced by and for DuPont as part of a public relations effort to improve the corporation's image in the aftermath of World War I when they'd been accused of war profiteering by the Nye Committee. Each homespun tale of founding fathers' wisdom, pilgrims' determination, revolutionary courage, intrepid westward expansion, ingenious invention, female trailblazers, World War II heroism and, generally, plucky patriotism against all odds was accompanied with an advertising story trumpeting the timely invention of another new product by DuPont, like nylon fabric (and many many others). These scripts will be found eventully in *T-MSS 1942-004.
regards,
Christine Karatnytsky
Scripts Librarian
NYPL for the Performing Arts