Tony Schwartz Collection
Considered a master of the electronic media, Tony Schwartz changed the face of radio and television advertising by creating socially conscientious campaigns such as the nation’s first anti-smoking ad, which led the tobacco industry to stop advertising on television and radio. Those and other materials are part of the vast archives of sound recordings and moving images created and collected by the renowned New York City sound documentarian, producer, author and teacher.
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The sound recordings from this collection that are part of the Citizen DJ project are free to use and reuse. You can copy, modify, distribute and perform the works, even for commercial purposes, all without asking permission. Attribution is recommended but not required.
Why is this free to use?
In 2007, Tony Schwartz's entire body of work was acquired by the Library of Congress, thus the Library reserves the right to make his recordings available for reuse as long as those recordings do not contain embedded material to which Schwartz did not own the copyright. Therefore, Citizen DJ excludes: (1) recordings that contain music or speeches from identifiable or named performers and composers, (2) radio broadcasts, and (3) commercials.
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Citizen DJ Project, Tony Schwartz Collection at the Library of Congress, Motion Picture, Broadcasting and Recorded Sound Division.
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Abe Lincoln, 1962
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- Excerpt starting at 12:36
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Airplane Vic Jet trip #3
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Announcer - Process
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Attitudes & the subways
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Automobile (reel 1)
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Automobile (reel 2)
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Bob Rosenwald, 6-54 : hammering various stone & wood
- Excerpt starting at 01:00
- Excerpt starting at 06:26
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Buying old suit
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- Excerpt starting at 02:24
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Children: November 1963
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- Excerpt starting at 07:12
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Construction sounds
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Conversation about health care
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Elevator operators
- Excerpt starting at 06:21
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Favorite sounds
- Excerpt starting at 00:32
- Excerpt starting at 01:18
- Excerpt starting at 01:57
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- Excerpt starting at 03:43
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Games and play
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Happiness no. 4
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- Excerpt starting at 02:06
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Home remedies
- Excerpt starting at 05:46
- Excerpt starting at 25:38
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How do you read?
- Excerpt starting at 01:27
- Excerpt starting at 01:42
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- Excerpt starting at 02:48
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Instant information
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- Excerpt starting at 01:17
- Excerpt starting at 01:33
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Interviews with record collectors
- Excerpt starting at 02:58
- Excerpt starting at 05:25
- Excerpt starting at 08:09
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- Excerpt starting at 11:40
- Excerpt starting at 12:46
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It's a boy
- Excerpt starting at 01:49
- Excerpt starting at 01:55
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- Excerpt starting at 02:19
- Excerpt starting at 02:23
- Excerpt starting at 02:33
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Listening game #2
- Excerpt starting at 03:12
- Excerpt starting at 03:34
- Excerpt starting at 05:22
- Excerpt starting at 05:50
- Excerpt starting at 10:11
- Excerpt starting at 12:27
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Loops (open)
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- Excerpt starting at 06:06
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Mother telling stories to her child
- Excerpt starting at 05:50
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Mothers calling children
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Music, unusual sounds
- Excerpt starting at 01:18
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- Excerpt starting at 06:43
- Excerpt starting at 14:40
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N.Y. enthusiasts, 1979-04-07
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Naming of dogs
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New York interviews (Reel 1)
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- Excerpt starting at 17:38
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New York interviews (Reel 2)
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- Excerpt starting at 06:33
- Excerpt starting at 10:09
- Excerpt starting at 11:34
- Excerpt starting at 12:04
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Night, 1963-02
- Excerpt starting at 24:05
- Excerpt starting at 24:17
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- Excerpt starting at 25:10
- Excerpt starting at 26:33
- Excerpt starting at 27:22
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Old auto horns
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Playground
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Political street speakers and kids
- Excerpt starting at 01:57
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Rough material #2
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Rough material: Nancy time lapse growth portrait, children and God,
- Excerpt starting at 00:39
- Excerpt starting at 01:45
- Excerpt starting at 04:58
- Excerpt starting at 07:01
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- Excerpt starting at 11:55
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Santa Claus
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Santa Claus, 1960s
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Sounds from New York. Subway and Lincoln 1961-02-19
- Excerpt starting at 04:34
- Excerpt starting at 08:45
- Excerpt starting at 11:39
- Excerpt starting at 12:17
- Excerpt starting at 12:54
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St. Patrick's parade
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Taxi to Harlem
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Ted Carpenter and Tony Schwartz on museums 1968-06-09
- Excerpt starting at 01:47
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- Excerpt starting at 27:16
- Excerpt starting at 29:15
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The generation gap
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- Excerpt starting at 00:19
- Excerpt starting at 01:53
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The value of being a Jew today
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- Excerpt starting at 02:26
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Tony Schwartz answering machine outgoing message
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Tony Schwartz discusses his agoraphobia with an unidentified man
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- Excerpt starting at 09:52
- Excerpt starting at 18:20
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Traffic in New York
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- Excerpt starting at 02:23
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Various programs
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- Excerpt starting at 05:54
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Various programs
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- Excerpt starting at 07:39
- Excerpt starting at 07:55
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Various programs
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- Excerpt starting at 04:16
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Virgil Fox/organ : reel 2, 1963-02-12
- Excerpt starting at 00:03
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- Excerpt starting at 05:18
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Walden school, 1957-05-07 : children at school talking about various
- Excerpt starting at 01:39
- Excerpt starting at 03:57
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Words & tone
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