Thanks to everyone who replied. I gather this must have been an experiment, and not broadcast. Ha, I remember building those kinds of buzzers in my youth.... with an electromagnet and a piece of metal. Marcos Marcos Sueiro Bal Senior Archivist, New York Public Radio 646 829 4063 -----Original Message----- From: Association for Recorded Sound Discussion List [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of John Haley Sent: Tuesday, June 13, 2017 5:52 PM To: [log in to unmask] Subject: Re: [ARSCLIST] Help me identify this broadcast sound! Sure sounds like an alarm clock to me. Note that the pitch drops a little. Something to restore! Best, John Haley On Tue, Jun 13, 2017 at 12:49 PM, Marcos Sueiro Bal <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > This is from a 1968 International Interview recording. It comes after > a 1kHz tone and seems like some kind of alarm, but it is reportedly > not part of any Emergency Broadcast System nor CONELRAD. It is unknown > whether this sound was actually broadcast. > > http://nyprarchives.tumblr.com/post/161747409571/now- > what-the-heck-is-this-sound-at-the-start-of-an > > Thanks for any help! > > Marcos Sueiro Bal > Senior Archivist, New York Public Radio > 646 829 4063 > > -----Original Message----- > From: Association for Recorded Sound Discussion List [mailto: > [log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Paul Jackson > Sent: Monday, June 12, 2017 2:16 PM > To: [log in to unmask] > Subject: Re: [ARSCLIST] CTEA 2018: it's coming > > 2018 is when many works of 1923 will become public domain as there are > no additional extensions available. > > A work that was first copyrighted on April 10, 1923, and renewed > between April 10, 1950, and April 10, 1951, would formerly have fallen > into the public domain after April 10, 1979. The current law extends > this copyright through the end of 2018. These second-term copyrights > cannot be renewed again. Under the law, their extension to the maximum > 95-year term is automatic and requires no action in the Copyright Office. > > On 6/12/2017 8:52 AM, Eli Bildirici wrote: > > Apropos of some of the conversations being had here about copyright > > issues surrounding recordings: next year will mark twenty years > > since > the last Copyright Term Extension Act. As you all know, the copyright > term situation is already comically bad, but there is no reason to > believe Congress won't vote to make it even worse next year, > particularly having the absolute gift that is this dysfunctional > clownshow of a presidential administration to distract everyone - to > say nothing of the rest of their own regressive agenda. (Not that this > isn't a bipartisan policy...) Given that, seems to me that organizing against this needs to be happening now. > Typing 'Copyright Term Extension Act' into Google already yields an > autocomplete of 'of 2018', and ludicrously enough, among the top hits > for such is a legal article arguing for such an extension. The > archivist community in particular, I think, understands the chilling > effect this has on the preservation of cultural treasures (beyond, > say, making a personal copy and then waiting for Godot, lest you be > sued into oblivion by some rights troll). Defeating this bill would > amount to preserving the status > quo: already not great, but at least it would begin allowing some > works - not music, given the even more opaque state copyright regime > it lives under; not for another fifty years - but at least it would > begin allowing some works published 1923 and on to pass into the > public domain in the next few years, instead of delaying that eventuality yet another twenty years. > > I'm not sure what chance we'd have...but we should at least try, right? > > > > Eli Bildirici > > (347) 837-8337 > > > > --- > > This email has been checked for viruses by AVG. > > http://www.avg.com > > >