And that same boom operator worked for Werner von Braun as a rocket scientist!
(NOT!!!)
From: "Ken Hart" <kwhart1@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: "pure-silver@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" <pure-silver@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Tuesday, June 14, 2016 9:05:13 PM
Subject: [pure-silver] Re: PERHAPS OFF TOPIC***PENNY WISE AND POUND
FOOLISH!!!***
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:
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I believe the other thing that came out of that alleged incident was the
shouted statement, "You'll never work in this town again!!!"
From: "`Richard Knoppow" <dickburk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: "pure-silver@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" <pure-silver@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Tuesday, June 14, 2016 2:33:25 PM
Subject: [pure-silver] Re: PERHAPS OFF TOPIC***PENNY WISE AND POUND
FOOLISH!!!***
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:
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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 dickburk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx WB6KBL
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