On The Tinsel Front

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  • Recording “booth”

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    THE ROOM WHERE IT HAPPENED! The makeshift booth – created in the closet beneath my staircase – where most of ON THE TINSEL FRONT was recorded. Harry Potter jokes were many. Thanks to the actors who braved it! A third of the show was recorded remotely, actors using their own recording setup while I listened…

  • Episode 3: “Housemates”

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    Episode # 3.  Ollie gets to know his housemates.  After receiving bad news that raises an upsetting suspicion, Ollie gets into hot water with Sgt. Bellows… WRITTEN, PRODUCED AND DIRECTED by Christopher Bomba STARRING… with…  MUSIC: SOUND EFFECTS courtesy of Soundly, Epidemic Sound and Freesound. While On the Tinsel Front purports to tell a true…

  • Culver City #1

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    Ollie: It’s in California in a town called Culver City, which is near Los Angeles… This is the first of what will be a number of posts about Culver City, a Southern California town with a rich history and the location for much of TINSEL FRONT’s first season. The city was founded in 1917 by…

  • Episode 2: “Dishwasher”

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    After putting in for a transfer, Ollie tries to fit in at the First Motion Picture Unit,  only he’s qualified for nothing and finds himself in a miserable situation.  At his new home, he makes an exciting discovery… WRITTEN, PRODUCED AND DIRECTED by Christopher Bomba STARRING… with…  MUSIC: SOUND EFFECTS courtesy of Soundly, Epidemic Sound,…

  • Episode 1: “Washed Out”

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    1942.  After washing out of flight school in Louisiana, Pvt. Oliver Whelan is assigned to an U.S. Army Air Forces base near Los Angeles, California.  He eagerly heads west only to find that there’s been some kind of mistake… WRITTEN, PRODUCED AND DIRECTED by Christopher Bomba STARRING… with…  MUSIC: SOUND EFFECTS courtesy of Soundly, Epidemic…

  • The Hal Roach Studios

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    Miller: No, before the war it was the Hal Roach Studios, you know, where Laurel & Hardy and the Our Gang films were made. When the Army took it over, Fort Roach seemed appropriate… The home of the USAAF First Motion Picture Unit during the war, the “Hal Roach Studios was an American motion picture and television production studio. Known…

  • Lois’ house: Storybook Architecture

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    Ollie: I couldn’t tell whether the architect was being serious or ironic. It looked like someplace Hansel and Gretel would have stopped at if they were intentionally looking for the witch… Lois’ “Fairy Tale” house is not based on any specific home, either in the past or present. I came up with it, however, because…

  • First Motion Picture Unit

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    Ollie: There was a stretch of large buildings strangely fronted by a mansion – or what looked like a mansion. Big letters over the front porch read “U.S. ARMY AIR FORCES.” But I gotta tell you, it was not like any base I’d ever seen… “The 18th AAF Base Unit (Motion Picture Unit), originally known as the First…

  • Ronald Reagan

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    Ollie: That’s when it dawned on me. This was that actor, Ronald Reagan. … here he was, a lieutenant in the Army Air Force and some big cheese at this base. While there are many websites that detail Reagan’s military service during the war, this article from the National Museum of the United States Air…

  • Trailer

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    This is the trailer for ON THE TINSEL FRONT, a scripted podcast series coming in Spring 2024. It is 1942.  Washed out of flight school and inexplicably assigned to the Army Air Forces “First Motion Picture Unit” in Culver City, California,  Private Oliver Whelan tumbles down the rabbit hole of World War II Hollywood.  A…