The Old Creamery Theatre
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The Old Creamery Theatre is a not-for-profit professional theatre founded in 1971 and located in Amana, IA. Since its founding, the theatre has been dedicated to performing high-quality, live professional theatre for audiences of all ages and interests, and offers a wide variety of plays each season, as well as many different educational opportunities. The Old Creamery is proud to be the longest running professional theatre company in the state of Iowa.
Old Creamery Theatre
The Old Creamery Theatre is a not-for-profit professional theatre founded in 1971. Since its founding, the Old Creamery has been dedicated to performing high-quality, live professional theatre for audiences of all ages and interests, and offers a wide variety of plays each season, as well as many different educational opportunities. The Old Creamery is proud to be the longest running professional theatre company in the state of Iowa. WWW.OLDCREAMERY.COM
Learn More About The Old Creamery Theatre
The Old Creamery Theatre sure is a wonderful place! Learn more about the oldest professional theatre in the state of Iowa by watching this video! Some of our commonly asked questions are also answered in this video. Thanks for watching!
Camp Creamery 2015
Camp Creamery: Lights, Hollywood, Action! is a week-long workshop for children interested in exploring the exciting world of theatre! The camp is designed to give children ages 7 and up the unique opportunity to work and perform with three professional actors from The Old Creamery Theatre while they rehearse and present a play. Lights, Hollywood, Action! is a brand new musical with all the glitz and glam of old Hollywood! Registration is first come, first served (up to 60 actors) and everyone that signs up will be cast in the show. Camp Creamery is a great way for kids to get into the act this summer! Visit us online at olcreamery.com.
Heritage Inn, Williamsburg, IA
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Master Hosts Inns Heritage Inn Amana Colonies is located conveniently near most attractions, such as, Amana Colonies, Amana Colonies Golf Course, Coral Ridge Mall, Old Creamery Theatre and the Tanger Outlet Mall, all within a short drive of the hotel.
Master Hosts Inns Heritage Inn Amana Colonies is proud to offer a 100 percent smoke free facility, free Wi-Fi, free local calls, free cable TV, Starbucks coffee in all guest rooms, we also offer our guest on site coin operated laundry facility and a sparkling indoor heated pool and hot tub. Downtown dining and nightlife are just minutes away, including great hometown German restaurants and wineries.
For a great night’s sleep at affordable prices, be sure to make your next stay at the Master Hosts Inns Heritage Inn Amana Colonies. Children under 3 stay free.
Please contact hotel directly if you require handicap room. We do not allow pets and also pets are not allowed to remain in vehicles in our Hotel Parking Lot.
Think Entertainment, Think Old Creamery Theatre
The Old Creamery Theatre Company is proud to be the oldest professional theatre company in the state of Iowa! The Old Creamery Theatre is a not-for-profit professional theatre founded in 1971 in Garrison, Iowa. This year we are celebrating 45 years of bringing live, professional theatre to the people of Iowa and the Midwest.
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Special thanks to Dot K Productions for producing this video.
Best of Living in Iowa 143
In this episode of the Best of Living in Iowa, we'll follow Chad Pregracke down the Mighty Mississippi as he cleans up Big Muddy. See a 100 year old case of mistaken identity solved in the Iowa courtroom where it all began. And come one, come all to the Annual National Hand Corn Husking Championships and cheer on your favorite.
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ABOUT LIVING IN IOWA
For 16 seasons, Living in Iowa was an omnibus television series that illustrated what it meant to be uniquely Iowan. Through compelling human interest stories, it provided snapshots of Iowans representing every walk of life. As part of its 50th anniversary, Iowa Public Television will revisit this popular series through The Best of Living in Iowa, a weekly program that features stories gathered from the archives of the original series. From this rich treasure trove of stories, viewers will relive moments from the past and be reminded of Iowa's unique heritage.
Grief Drives a Black Sedan / People Are No Good / Time Found Again / Young Man Axelbrod
In the beginning of the Golden Age, American radio network programs were almost exclusively broadcast live, as the national networks prohibited the airing of recorded programs until the late 1940s because of the inferior sound quality of phonograph discs, the only practical recording medium. As a result, prime-time shows would be performed twice, once for each coast. However, reference recordings were made of many programs as they were being broadcast, for review by the sponsor and for the network's own archival purposes. With the development of high-fidelity magnetic wire and tape recording in the years following World War II, the networks became more open to airing recorded programs and the prerecording of shows became more common.
Local stations, however, had always been free to use recordings and sometimes made substantial use of prerecorded syndicated programs distributed on pressed (as opposed to individually recorded) transcription discs.
Recording was done using a cutting lathe and acetate discs. Programs were normally recorded at 33⅓ rpm on 16 inch discs, the standard format used for such electrical transcriptions from the early 1930s through the 1950s. Sometimes, the groove was cut starting at the inside of the disc and running to the outside. This was useful when the program to be recorded was longer than 15 minutes so required more than one disc side. By recording the first side outside in, the second inside out, and so on, the sound quality at the disc change-over points would match and result in a more seamless playback. An inside start also had the advantage that the thread of material cut from the disc's surface, which had to be kept out of the path of the cutting stylus, was naturally thrown toward the center of the disc so was automatically out of the way. When cutting an outside start disc, a brush could be used to keep it out of the way by sweeping it toward the middle of the disc. Well-equipped recording lathes used the vacuum from a water aspirator to pick it up as it was cut and deposit it in a water-filled bottle. In addition to convenience, this served a safety purpose, as the cellulose nitrate thread was highly flammable and a loose accumulation of it combusted violently if ignited.
Most recordings of radio broadcasts were made at a radio network's studios, or at the facilities of a network-owned or affiliated station, which might have four or more lathes. A small local station often had none. Two lathes were required to capture a program longer than 15 minutes without losing parts of it while discs were flipped over or changed, along with a trained technician to operate them and monitor the recording while it was being made. However, some surviving recordings were produced by local stations.[7][8]
When a substantial number of copies of an electrical transcription were required, as for the distribution of a syndicated program, they were produced by the same process used to make ordinary records. A master recording was cut, then electroplated to produce a stamper from which pressings in vinyl (or, in the case of transcription discs pressed before about 1935, shellac) were molded in a record press.