deepak
Azi'll never get over the intense special interest required for someone to post this on imdb
Tess, Joint Chief of Stiff@az Oh thats gloriously pedantic, I love it.
Mx. Aria Stewart@az Extremely my jam. Gonna notice that if it's wrong forever now.
Adam ♿@aredridel @az I can't find it now but there's a great video about how lots of telephone sound effects in movies are Wrong
felix@aredridel @voltagex @az frog sounds in movies are often wrong due to the recordings of frogs generally being taken in California.
dragonfrog@felix @aredridel @voltagex @az The father of a friend of mine in high school was an ornithologist. I remember watching Robin Hood Prince of Thieves at their house, and his dad couldn't bear to watch any more when they used North American bird song as background sounds in Sherwood forest.
Sleepysod@dragonfrog @felix @aredridel @voltagex @az I couldn’t bear it when they landed at the white cliffs of Dover and then went past Hadrian’s Wall on their way back to Sherwood Forest
Ethan Harvey@dragonfrog @felix @aredridel @voltagex @az Oh, goddammit, I was laughing about the original post until I saw this.
It annoys the hell out of me when movies use a red-tailed hawk scream for other birds. Bald eagles, especially -- they don't sound anything like that!
It annoys the hell out of me when movies use a red-tailed hawk scream for other birds. Bald eagles, especially -- they don't sound anything like that!
@cavedueller @dragonfrog @felix @voltagex @az Nobody understands our big trash chickens of a symbol :P Gotta keep up the mythos :D
Bornach@cavedueller @dragonfrog @felix @aredridel @voltagex @az
This bird really gets around. Its distinctive wail is heard not just in movies set on nearly every continent on this planet, but also on some distant alien worlds
https://youtu.be/DVFBUIGfcJk
Why Hollywood loves this creepy bird call
Seb@aredridel @dragonfrog @az @felix @voltagex That’s great. Like criticising the seasoning on a dish made entirely from wood carved to look a bit like food.
@dragonfrog @voltagex @aredridel @felix @az A comment on the otherwise accuracy of the Costner classic.
0x10f/kalle/qalle@dragonfrog @felix @aredridel @voltagex @az And the telescope they used (invented in the 17th century).
potpie@felix @aredridel @voltagex @az likewise every large bird gets the red tailed hawk noise, and guns are apparently filled with loose spinning ratchets
impossible ortolan@felix @aredridel @voltagex @az as an Australian, a fave of mine in that genre is that every establishing shot of a jungle includes a kookaburra call
JdeBP@fingerless @felix @aredridel @voltagex @az
Has Larrikin Music sued for 60% of the royalties of every Aussie film?
BeeCycling has moved@felix @aredridel @voltagex @az Watched a whole video on YouTube once about the way movies and TV use the call of loons all the damn time, even when there's zero chance of seeing a loon in that setting.
b_rawr.tar.xz@felix @aredridel @voltagex @az so many movie sounds are annoyingly wrong because producers think that everything has to make a loud sound.
Dan Herbert@danherbert As they say in the movies: "Aaaaaigh!”
The Evil Microwizard
fluffy 💜@aredridel @voltagex @az my favorite serially-wrong telephony thing is whenever the person on the other end of a cellphone conversation hangs up and then there’s a dialtone.
Relatedly, off-hook alert tones coming from a cellphone to tip someone off to the cellphone’s presence (although that’s way less common).
Dec [{(
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If you ever asked yourself "Why The Dial Tone After Someone Hangs Up?", Tom Scott did an excellent video with Sarah from @connections about just that, using authentic hardware.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=bUIiUXvnkUQ
If you ever asked yourself "Why The Dial Tone After Someone Hangs Up?", Tom Scott did an excellent video with Sarah from @connections about just that, using authentic hardware.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=bUIiUXvnkUQ
In Old Movies, Why The Dial Tone After Someone Hangs Up?
TerrorBite 🦁@aredridel this reminds me of the North American model Linksys VoIP phone adapter I have hooked up to the Australian National Broadband Network. All the phone tones were Wrong, and I had to look up the correct Telstra tones and change them in the config.
ChurchHatesTucker ☑@voltagex @aredridel @az
Likely this one from @TechConnectify
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AxXsIQDafog
Likely this one from @TechConnectify
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AxXsIQDafog
Faking It: The Obviously Dubbed Telephone Ring
schuelermineFaking It: The Obviously Dubbed Telephone Ring
Bart@anselmschueler @voltagex @aredridel @az
@TechConnectify to the (pedantic) rescue.
tltroup@aredridel @az @voltagex and car doors, yikes! I think it was on Stranger Things when someone slammed a car door (likely made with heavy 1970 Pittsburgh steel), but the sound was the light click of a late 90s sedan.
Anders Norén@tltroup @aredridel @az @voltagex
In Stranger Things season 1 the kids had flashlights - or was it bicycle lights? - with cold LED light instead of warm incandescent light.
In Stranger Things season 1 the kids had flashlights - or was it bicycle lights? - with cold LED light instead of warm incandescent light.
Pinball Map@violanders @tltroup @aredridel @az @voltagex in Stranger Things season 4, the camera panned by the 1978 solid state pinball machine Paragon, but the sounds coming from it were chimes from an earlier electro-mechanical machine.
The Doctor@tltroup @aredridel @az @voltagex Yep. My grandparents had that car when I was growing up. It didn't sound anything like the sound the door made when it was slammed.
Mikko@tltroup @[email protected] @az @voltagex
I love in movies when I hear tires squeeling in tight corners.
Especially on GRAVEL. 😍
nytpu the wyvern@voltagex @aredridel @az https://youtube.com/watch?v=AxXsIQDafog (summary: lots of movies even in the 90s where digital audio was a thing clearly use old analog sound effects with noticeable wow and flutter, particularly telephone rings which have specific frequencies)
Faking It: The Obviously Dubbed Telephone Ring
Molly
In Old Movies, Why The Dial Tone After Someone Hangs Up?
alex helveticaIn Old Movies, Why The Dial Tone After Someone Hangs Up?
Sam Wade@az @grumpasaurus Most film and TV set in the mid-20th Century is ruined for my uncle, a TITANIC classic car nerd, because the Foley artists never get the engine and exhaust sounds right.
Julia RezOh god. There was a netflix thing where both the phones and the Land-Rover engines were totally wrong. I noped out.
Sufficient Daisy@JuliaRez @samuel_wade @az @grumpasaurus this was me watching season 4 of Stranger Things and seeing the 1980s computer display filled with C# imports, including "using system.Linq;"
oh and IIRC there was html code including <iframe>
bmaxv@daisy @JuliaRez @samuel_wade @az @grumpasaurus
Doing this with historic-ish settings and a #trains #modeltrains nerd can be hilarious, because the time periods are long, it's possible that they just plug in a train from 50 years later, wrong continent, wrong coloring, freight locomotive for a passenger train and so on... nonsense body mods... you name it.
Naturally because filmmakers have to take what's available, but still fun to point out.
n3wjack@daisy @JuliaRez @samuel_wade @az @grumpasaurus really? What scene was that? I missed that apparently.
スパックマン クリス@daisy @JuliaRez @samuel_wade @az @grumpasaurus
TIL that I should skip season 4 of Stranger Things.
Thanks for the heads up!
@daisy @JuliaRez @samuel_wade @az @grumpasaurus Or one of the later episodes of _Wandavision_ where a C64 had too many rows and columns on a Commodore display that wasn't manufactured until three years after the episode was set (because I had that display!) and supported a PPP connection in BASIC.
scunneen (he/him) 🚋@drwho @daisy @JuliaRez @samuel_wade @az @grumpasaurus I was unsufficiently nerdy to notice that in the episode, but I did notice that it was rather unusual for a business to be using Commodore machines at all, I thought they were mostly used as game machines while businesses went for IBMs.
cuan_knaggs@daisy @JuliaRez @samuel_wade @az @grumpasaurus everybody has the things that pull them out of willing suspense of disbelief. for me it's localness, the more i know an environment or accent the less likely it is the i can just relax into the story telling
Mallory 🏳️⚧️
@daisy In Don’t Worry Darling there’s a scene where somebody references “keep calm and carry on” which is a phrase that virtually nobody had heard of before 2000, which I think is a nice subtle way to give some viewers a clue about the big reveal coming up.
Derekodon@JuliaRez @samuel_wade @az @grumpasaurus There’s what I think is a documentary, “Airplane”, that shows a jet aircraft but it’s making propeller noises. I haven’t been able to watch it more than 15 or 20 times…😁😆🤣
Archnemysis@DWTSquawk7600 @JuliaRez @samuel_wade @az @grumpasaurus same. Every time the autopilot inflates all I can think is “it’s wearing the wrong uniform!”
Allan Chow
Cyper Bunk@az I like the hum of this person's wires!
Flock of Cats 🐈 🐈 🐈 ❄️@az “incorrectly regarded as goofs” has big well actually energy.
Pippa 🌈@az how did only 60 out of 85 people find that interesting? shame on the other 25
Nihl L'Amas@az For the amount of money they spend making movies, they could get this stuff right.
Johnny ‘Decimal’ Noble@NIH_LLAMAS @az Could they? Serious question. Converting 240V 60Hz AC to 50Hz or vice versa probably isn’t trivial.
You’d need all sorts of step up/down transformers. No _way_ that’s worth the effort and energy, and I’m as pedantic as they come.
IANAEE.
skategoat 🐐 🇵🇸@az actual CIA watching the movie
Martin Piper (he/him) 💙💛🌻💉@az this is me.