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(Some Animation Fan) Cool The best 80-year-old Western Electric animated film, directed by Max Fleischer, explaining soundtrack technology, that you're going to see this year   (archive.org) divider line 9
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0x1a4 2009-10-31 11:40:55 AM  
That was pretty cool. Amazing how far we've come in such a short time.

 
qlenfg 2009-10-31 03:00:01 PM  
Great find, subby. I argued with a young engineer at work about this and he didn't believe they ever did it this way.

 
captnero 2009-10-31 04:00:22 PM  
What scares me is that, because I take this stuff for granted everyday, if things were ever to go to hell overnight, I wonder if we have the capability to reproduce this kind of stuff.

 
w00ty 2009-10-31 05:46:29 PM  
hehehehe... vacuum tubes....

/non talkie looked like he was going to gank talkie at first.

 
Mrbogey 2009-10-31 08:18:25 PM  
qlenfg: Great find, subby. I argued with a young engineer at work about this and he didn't believe they ever did it this way.

It really does seem like an overly complex process. But when you consider what you're trying to do it really is clever.

 
Nem Wan 2009-10-31 08:46:00 PM  
Ah, Western Electric. That was a monopoly's monopoly. Before 1984, practically every telephone in the U.S. was made by them. And they were built to be indestructible, so if you find one today, it probably still works.

 
kenny's mom 2009-11-01 01:55:18 AM  
Bless you, bless you, bless you a thousand times, moderators....this liter has been submitting headlines for years, and finally got one accepted!

/laughs giddily, wipes away small tear of joy.....

//thanks also, qlenfg--glad you enjoyed this late-20s technology

 
UseTheForksLuke 2009-11-01 04:43:41 AM  
Looked something along the lines of the Photophone invented by Alexander Graham Bell and his assistant in 1880. The Photophone allowed for the transmission of sound on a beam of light and transmitted the world's first wireless telephone call and then was eventually developed into fiber-optic communications. One step forward, three steps back, you know the process.

 
FueledByEthanol 2009-11-01 06:49:01 AM  
Old news toons are exciting!

Actually, it was very neat, seeing how the tech worked back in the 20s. Stick around for the big finish.

 
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