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Radiovision vs. Earsheltering

 
Radiovision is an educational program which was launched in 1955, combining a school radio program with a slide show and a booklet. Forgotten today, it was a great success until the 1980s.

The slideshow and booklets were received on request by schools a few weeks before the radio program was broadcast. The colored slideshow pictures were larger and in a higher definition than the television image could offer. Paintings, engravings, manuscripts and old photographs were rendered with a higher quality than television couldn’t reach. It was therefore particularly useful for Geography, History of Arts and Natural Sciences classes.

The teacher had to manually ensure synchronization between images and sounds, triggering the transition to the next slide at each the sound signal.

During the 70s, in addition to the combination of sounds and still images, radiovisions became part of a more complete multimedia system, from an educational and tools point of view, and made up the radiovisual file. Each week, two programs from the "Radio-awakening" series would be associated with the radiovision, developing complementary aspects of the subject dealt with, along with educational documents gathered together in a file (15 to 20 pages of program content analysis, bibliography, texts, photographs, maps, etc.).

From the 1974-75 school year onwards, a flexy 7 inch disk would be part of the package for a few files, and then it developed to become more systematically; in the 80s, audio cassettes took over the flexy 7 inch disk.

La Radiovision est un dispositif lancé en 1955, qui associe une émission de radio scolaire à la projection de diapositives (accompagnées d’un livret). Oublié aujourd’hui, ce procédé a connu un grand succès jusqu’aux années 1980.
Les diapositives et livrets sont reçus par les établissements qui en font la demande quelques semaines avant la diffusion du programme radiophonique. L’image est en couleurs, de plus grande taille et de meilleure définition que l’image télévisée. Les peintures, les gravures, les manuscrits, les photographies anciennes y sont restitués avec un niveau de fidélité qui ne peut pas être atteint de façon équivalente par la télévision. Il est donc utilisé notamment en géographie, en histoire des arts et en sciences naturelles.

L’enseignant devait assurer manuellement la synchronisation entre l’image et le son, en déclenchant le passage à la diapositive suivante au signal sonore.


Dans le courant des années 70, outre l’association du son et des images fixes, les radiovisions vont s’inscrire dans un système multimédia plus complet, d’un point de vue pédagogique et matériel, et composer le dossier radiovisuel. Chaque semaine, seront associés à la radiovision, deux émissions de la série "Radio-éveil" développant des aspects complémentaires au sujet traité et des documents d’accompagnement pédagogiques regroupés dans une pochette-dossier (15 à 20 pages d’analyse des contenus des programmes, bibliographie, textes, photographie, cartes…).

A partir de de l’année scolaire 1974-75, un disque souple sera associé à quelques dossiers, puis la démarche se développera plus systématiquement ; dans les années 80 ce sont les cassettes audios qui prendront le relais.

Earsheltering is a french netlabel focusing on outsized musics and a collaborative place for free synaesthete artists

Idea and guideline for track creation is simple, just refer to a Radiovision publication and create a track based on. A lot of Radiovisions are available here as slideshow with slides & sounds from the ep. So you can sample it, or only get inspired from the thema/slideshow.

unfortunately, Radiovision is a french medium, if you don't understand language, just select a thema Radiovision, and create a track based on the Thema or cover of Radiovision selected. Translation in English of Radiovision name are available below

Suggestion for track naming:

etc...

or as you want... feel free also to create a new radiovision on a thema never relased !!! for example RVE666 "Sadism in Elvifrance publications" ( may be dedicated to university student only...).

VISUAL ARTS (for covers, flyers, etc...) are welcome too

deadline for submisssion is August 15th

3patttes(at)free.fr

https://gallica.bnf.fr/html/und/videos/radiovisions?mode=desktop

https://gallica.bnf.fr/services/engine/search/sru?operation=searchRetrieve&version=1.2&startRecord=0&maximumRecords=15&page=1&collapsing=true&exactSearch=false&query=%28gallica%20all%20%22radiovision%22%20and%20not%20dc.title%20all%20%22radiovision%22%20%29%20&filter=dc.type%20all%20%22video%22

https://www.discogs.com/label/2676752-Radiovision

If you want to download use/sample sounds from Radiovision publication , a lot are available here, but not directly with sound format, but as slideshow:

https://gallica.bnf.fr/services/engine/search/sru?operation=searchRetrieve&version=1.2&startRecord=0&maximumRecords=15&page=1&collapsing=true&exactSearch=false&query=%28gallica%20all%20%22radiovision%22%20and%20not%20dc.title%20all%20%22radiovision%22%20%29%20&filter=dc.type%20all%20%22video%22

RV&RVE listed in discogs (december 2023) :