Friday is the 101st anniversary of Orson Welle's birth, and the Lilly Library at Indiana University is celebrating.
The library at Indiana University is using a $25,000 grant from the National Recording Preservation Foundation to digitize rare, original recordings of "The Orson Welles Show."
Some of the recordings have been previously available as low-quality copies, but others haven't been heard in several decades.
"These are the recordings that are closest to the source of the original programs, and to have that preservation of those discs done, and to have the highest quality digital files made from them, is going to allow us to have the best sounding recordings," says Erika Dowell, head of public services at Lilly Library.
The library has had the collection since 1978. They will begin preservation and digitization in August, 2016 and will complete the project by August, 2017.
The collection will include annotated scripts, correspondence, promotional materials, and more.
"There's also a number of things that are little, sort of snippets or outtakes type of things, that I think people are really going to enjoy once we have it all up on the web," Dowell says.
It will be archived online and freely accessible to the public.