On The Tinsel Front

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  • Episode 5: “Lunch With Father”

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    Episode # 5. SEASON FINALE.  Ollie introduces himself to a Dartmouth alumnus, receives a summons from his father, and visits the Hollywood Canteen to see Elle…    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…

  • “This Is The Army” – The Movie

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    Reagan: “You are thus being temporarily attached to the company performing the Irving Berlin muscial revue “This Is The Army.” Its cross-country tour over, it’s in town for the for the production of the film version over at Warner Brothers, to which you will report immediately…” This morale-raising cinematic ode to the U.S. Armed Forces…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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…