Out On The Stoop is my exploration about things to know, talk about or experience these amazing times. The Stoop mantra is Think, think, it ain't illegal yet.
You might know Dooley Wilson from the movie Casablanca. But there is a lot more to learn about this performer.
He started and worked with the first professional black theater group. That he traveled across the county and to Europe as a singer and had his own band.
Wilson was under contract with Paramount Pictures. Who the proceeded to cast him as the porter, the driver and characters with one word names that spoke no more than two or more lines.
But in 1942 that changed with the movie, Casablanca.
Butterbeans and Susie worked for over 40 years with their comedy routine of marriage, jokes and dance numbers.
They also had hit records that could have never been played on the radio.
This is a moment with pioneers of comedy.
AudioMo is an international participation of folks that want to share what they can do with the audio format.
This is a captioned audio for those folks that are deaf, hearing impaired or English is not their native language.
There were segregation rules. There were theaters that did not allow black performers and certainly not black audiences.
Sherman Dudley thought there has to be a better way. And then he created it.
This is an introduction to The Theatre Owners Booking Association aka TOBA and some of the pros and cons about the theater circuit for black performers and audiences.
If you like to know more, there is a 2023 book by Michelle R. Scott 2023 book about TOBA called Get the show on the road and ABS History video about Black Vaudeville on YouTube.
Monday, June 09, 2025
Day 9 What In A Name?
How many names can a movie character have?
That depends on where you live, what language you speak and did you see it on the big screen or on television.
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This is my AudioMo captioned 30-day audio about Peplum movies and the historical and cultural connections.
For more info about #AudioMo, please visit https://write.as/audiomo/
#AudioMo #Peplum #MovieHistory
It is Day 8 of AudioMo and in this captioned audio, I talk a little bit about Steve Reeves career and his last appearance in Hercules Unchained.
That is the U.S. title of the film. The Italian title is Ercole e la regina di Lidia aka Hercules And The Queen Of Lidia.
This is my captioned 30-day audio challenge about Peplum movies and the historical and cultural connections. For more info about #AudioMo, please visit https://write.as/audiomo/
The year was 1914 and the movie Cabiria is a world wide hit.
It is an two hour adventure tale with volcanos, pirates, betrayals and introduces the grand-daddy of Peplum, a character called Maciste. There are copies of the movie on YouTube.
This is my open captioned 30-day audio challenge about Peplum movies and the historical and cultural connections. For more info about #AudioMo, please visit https://write.as/audiomo/
It is that time again. A bunch of folks get together and for June 2024 create audio recordings sharing who they are, what they are hearing or what they want to talk about.
My topic this year is the Peplum movies between 1958 to 1969.
Simply, a Peplum movie is set in old Greece or Rome, has a hero or demi-god who saves people from the bad people. But not always. There are a couple of films set in Egypt.
There is a lot of interesting things about how that genre of movies came to be created. There are connections from multiple directions and most do not involve oil or a tunic. A very important director of Spaghettis westerns got his start in Peplum movies.
Fifteen years ago, Ernmander started AudioMo as a way to have community and conversation. This is the ultimate diversity project. Blind folks, sighted folks, storytellers and the bashful all try to have a piece of audio to share with other. Mainly participants from the UK, Europe and a handful from the U.S.
I wanted to contribute but I noticed something. Audio isn't accessible to deaf, hard of hearing or new speakers of English.
It isn't easy to embed text into the audio unless you are using a specific service to create the SRT text file and upload for display..
And to my knowledge, there aren't audio specific embedded captioning that you can click a button and display captions. There could be, I don't know of any at this time.
Yes there are audio players that can display transcripts. But not in real time as the audio.
So what I do is use PowerPoint to hold one photo, record audio and then use video editing software to have it transcribe and display open captions on the screen.
You can also combine the audio, video into Microsoft ClipChamp to add captions. That rascal is finicky. But it works. I then post the video on YouTube.
I can share the video via Mastodon, Bluesky and other social media portals. It use to be on Twitter. There are still a few folks that participate there but many people chose not to visit that site anymore.
Anyway, I have a few challenges this year but I hope to make it to the end of the month.
As I mentioned, Ernmander is the ringleader of this and you can check out his blog posts on it at
Maigret was a French detective investigating the people in his area.
Similiar to Columbo, he listens to the people and looks for the why in the story.
Columbo, he listens to the people and looks for the why in the story.
There have been multiple television versions of Maigret, this one was produced by the BBC.
This is #AudioMo, an 30-day international challenge of sound and community.
This is my captioned audio about the TV detectives before Columbo.
Those Aussies indeed wore hats, well almost everyone man did in the early 1960's. These are the gents of the Homicide squad in the first dramatic television show specifically for the Australian TV market.
AudioMo, an 30-day international challenge of sound and community. This is my captioned audio about the TV detectives before Columbo.
M-Squad was one of the few times a drama or detective show was set in Chicago. Really got to see a range of bad guys. From broke folk to the really wealthy. And that theme song was bopping.
AudioMo, an 30-day international challenge of sound and community. This is my captioned audio about the TV detectives before Columbo.
For more info about AudioMo, please visit https://audiomo.vivaldi.net/2024/03/11/what-is-audiomo/