An experimental 23-scene drama compresses fifty years into fifteen minutes, followed by technical demonstrations of long-distance radio reception and older carbon microphones versus modern velocity microphones.

This Columbia Workshop broadcast aired on August 1, 1936. It is listed as episode 3 in the archive. CBS Radio Network carried the broadcast. The cast includes Arlene Francis, Frances Fuller, and Ray Collins. Other credited names include Irving Reis as producer and Vic Knight as writer.

The surviving recording runs about 30 minutes.

CBS's influential experimental anthology, created as a laboratory for radio drama and known for unusual scripts, literary adaptations, music, narration, and inventive use of sound.

Listeners can expect drama, anthology in format, and cerebral in tone.