Since you brought up booms and mics, there is an old story from the
early days of television.
The live variety show had a ventriloquist act. But every time the
ventriloquist's dummy "spoke", the audio level was very low. Turns out
that the microphone boom operator was moving the mic from the
ventriloquist to the dummy.
Ken Hart
kwhart1@xxxxxxxxxxxx
On 06/14/2016 06:38 PM, `Richard Knoppow wrote:
Another story I was told by Jim Fisher of Fisher boom fame and an alumni of Republic Pictures, was of an actor new to poverty row studios who asked the director what his cue was. "See that microphone? asked the director "When it points at you speak." Lots of stories about poverty row.
On 6/14/2016 2:34 PM, bobkiss caribsurf.com wrote:
I believe the other thing that came out of that alleged incident was the shouted statement, "You'll never work in this town again!!!"
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I am sure you know the very old story whose punch line is "Ready when you are mister DeMille".
On 6/14/2016 9:11 AM, mark@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
Lots of things like that used to happen, and in the days of film
the cost to redo outweighed the complaints of a few people that
noticed. Back then they couldn't fix it digitally. They had to
bring the cast, make up artists, wardrobe and every other person
involved with the production back to completely redo the scene.
Sometimes they might have footage from another take they could
splice in, but I wonder how many things like that are on old
films that we just never noticed.
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Richard Knoppow
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Richard Knoppow
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