Big Picture: The Story of American Forces Network (AFN)

Big Picture: The Story of American Forces Network (AFN) - National Archives and Records Administration - ARC Identifier 2569813 / Local Identifier 111-TV-583 - DVD Copied by Thomas Gideon - Department of Defense. Department of the Army. Office of the Deputy Chief of Staff for Operations. U.S. Army Audiovisual Center. (ca. 1974 - 05/15/1984). For twenty years one of the United States' largest radio networks has been broadcasting news - information -music - sports - and dramatic programs to an estimated audience of twenty million - yet has never been heard in the United States. The American Forces Network, Europe (known to its audience as AFN) has served the military community in Europe since it began broadcasting from a basement studio in London, England, on July 4, 1943. This year marks its twentieth anniversary of broadcast operations. THE BIG PICTURE captures on film the sight and sound of this unique radio network as it goes about its daily business. Filmed in Frankfurt - Berlin - Munich and Orleans, France - "The Story of AFN" is informative and entertaining.

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Education

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• archives.gov
• public.resource.org

[999ploop]

...was addicted to AFN Munich 1962-1966. Thank you

for so many good times.

[GermanDeliMarketing]

Ahh...what memories you bring back for all Military Brats who lived in Germany in the 1950s, 1960s, and beyond! The "Cold War" seemed a lot less cold because of AFN.

[nickemotionbb]

Thanks for uploading...I use to work for AFN Frankfurt from 1979-1985 as a cinematographer...