[78-L] The Wrong Gramophone.

[Michael Biel]

David Lennick wrote:
> Michael Biel wrote:
>   
>> David Lennick wrote:
>>     
>>> "The Last Picture Show", in 1952, has an early RCA 45 player at the pool party, 
>>> playing "The Thing", and clearly shows a light-colored label on the disc that's 
>>> spinning, not the black RCA Victor label.
>>>
>>> Blah blah blah....
>>>
>>> dl
>>>   
>>>       
>> In the U.S. this record came out on 45 with a blue label that would 
>> photograph lighter than a black label.  However I was not looking at the 
>> record player in that scene.
>>
>> Mike Biel  mbiel at mbiel.com
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>>     
>
> Of course not! But how many times do you need to look at Cybill's striptease 
> hoping something else'll show up that Bogdanovich forgot to edit? I also didn't 
> look at the record player long enough to notice whether it was the one with a 
> speaker or just the attachment (a machine I still have, by the way).
>
> dl
What you see depends on how old the recording is, what the source is, 
and what is the aspect ratio.  Some of the earliest pay-TV prints showed 
more than the modern release.  Same is true of Blow-Up.  And it is not 
just Cybill.  There's a dozen other kids in the scene.

Mike Biel  mbiel at mbiel.com