The run
- Network
- Syndicated
- Years active
- 1940–1950
- Surviving broadcasts
- 52
- Genre
- docudrama
Digitised by the Old Time Radio Researchers and streamed from the Internet Archive item “Captains_Of_Industry”; these recordings are in the public domain.
Source collection
Internet Archive audio collections
Rights
Public domain — no renewed US copyright
Cataloguing
Air dates and notes from the Archive item record
The shape of the run
What survives, year by year
0 dated broadcasts across 11 years on the air, with 11 years where nothing is known to survive. Brightness is transfer quality; empty cells are months lost to time.
Episodes
Start here
Listen to the run in order
Restored broadcasts from NaN, in original transmission order.
- 1. Captains Of Industry ep 02 George Westinghouse · Date unknown
- 2. Captains Of Industry ep 08 Charles Lewis Tiffany · Date unknown
- 3. Captains Of Industry ep 18 The Studebaker Brothers of South Bend, Indiana · Date unknown
- 01
Captains Of Industry ep 02 George Westinghouse
Date unknown · 11 min
Broadcast on Syndicated. Transferred from the Internet Archive's Old Time Radio Researchers collection (public domain).
- 02
Captains Of Industry ep 08 Charles Lewis Tiffany
Date unknown · 11 min
Broadcast on Syndicated. Transferred from the Internet Archive's Old Time Radio Researchers collection (public domain).
- 03
Captains Of Industry ep 18 The Studebaker Brothers of South Bend, Indiana
Date unknown · 12 min
Broadcast on Syndicated. Transferred from the Internet Archive's Old Time Radio Researchers collection (public domain).
- 04
Captains Of Industry ep 28 E H Gary
Date unknown · 12 min
Broadcast on Syndicated. Transferred from the Internet Archive's Old Time Radio Researchers collection (public domain).
- 05
Captains Of Industry ep 33 Philip Armour
Date unknown · 12 min
Broadcast on Syndicated. Transferred from the Internet Archive's Old Time Radio Researchers collection (public domain).
- 06
Captains Of Industry ep 43 John Henry Patterson
Date unknown · 12 min
Broadcast on Syndicated. Transferred from the Internet Archive's Old Time Radio Researchers collection (public domain).
- 07
Captains Of Industry ep 49 Henry Flagler
Date unknown · 12 min
Broadcast on Syndicated. Transferred from the Internet Archive's Old Time Radio Researchers collection (public domain).
- 08
Captains Of Industry ep 11 James Jerome Hill
Date unknown · 12 min
Broadcast on Syndicated. Transferred from the Internet Archive's Old Time Radio Researchers collection (public domain).
Also on Syndicated
Syndicated in 1940–1950
Other series the network carried while Captains Of Industry was on the air.
Same seasons
docudrama on the air then
Series in the same genre whose runs overlapped this one.
What it became
History, dramatised
A historical event staged with actors and a narrator who insists on the date. Cavalcade of America and You Are There made the past into scenes.
Lineage is written by our editors, not inferred from listening data.
Descendants
Working in the tradition of Captains Of Industry
Modern series carrying this form forward.
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