Prop Talk Podcast #017 – Jeff Pirtle, Director of Archives and Collections, NBCUniversal | Interview by The Original Prop Blog with Jason DeBord

Jeff Pirtle, special guest. This is the seventeenth ‘Prop Talk’ podcast by the Original Prop Blog. Mr. Jeff Pirtle is Director, Archives and Collections, NBCUniversal.  NBCUniversal is celebrating their Centennial, and involved in a number of projects that give people glimpses of never-before-seen props, images and more from the NCBUniversal collection. Jeff Pirtle has been working on pulling key items to share on Universal’s Centennial Tumblr as well as for the Centennial celebration overall.

Mr. Pirtle recently took the time to talk with me for the latest Prop Talk podcast interview for the Original Prop Blog and its audience.

This article hosts the next in a regular ongoing series of full-length audio podcasts featuring one on one interviews with interesting people who participate in and/or affect the hobby of collecting and preserving original movie and television props, costumes, and other assets. The seventeenth guest of this program is Jeff Pirtle.

Below is a streaming audio player with which you can listen to episode #017 (length 37 minutes) – press the play icon to start the audio program:

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Learn more about NBCUniversal and their centennial celebrations and activities:

universal100.tumblr.com

nbcuniversalarchives.com

vam.ac.uk

We also discussed an article published in Entertainment Weekly years ago, which I had archived on the Original Prop Blog at the time:  Entertainment Weekly Feature: “The Things They Carried”

Below are some of the sample images from the Tumblr site, as discussed in the podcast:

Special thanks to Mr. Pirtle for participating in today’s Prop Talk podcast.

Jason DeBord