[78-L] Who says some phono collectors aren't creepy?

[Michael Biel]

On 12/18/2010 11:52 PM, neechevoneeznayou at gmail.com wrote:
> perhaps they turn the crank backwards to avoid making noise while taking
> dialogue during a scene. Of course if they crank in CU it wouldn't
> matter, they might want the noise
>
> joe salerno
>
>

HUH?????  Except for the motorless hand-crank Berliners or tinfoil 
machines, turning a crank backwards only unscrews or detaches the crank, 
not cause the turntable to turn backwards.  There was no dialog in this 
scene, and in making movies, if there is on-set noise they don't want 
they re-record the dialog in a technique called "looping".

> On 12/18/2010 9:15 PM, Vincent Fitzpatrick wrote:
>> Why do so many gramophones in the movies turn backwards?

What examples do you have?  I'm not sure about this one because the 
youtube stream was herky-jerky and there were not enough frames to 
determine which way the turntable was turning, at least on my computer.

>>   And how to people
>> get 78s of recordings made in the 1960s, 70s, 80s, and 90s?
>>

Examples???  This one starts with the sound of the music from what could 
be any recording of it, and then dissolves into a modern sound of the 
recording because the hi-fi sound is more dramatic and is better 
understood by today's audience.  I don't think they are claiming that 
the hi-fi recording is coming out of the horn, or that the 78 was a 
modern recording.  This was not a modern piece of music.  It had been 
recorded in the 78 era.






>> On Fri, Dec 17, 2010 at 10:34 AM, Steve Ramm<steveramm78l at hotmail.com>
>>    wrote:
>>
>>> This was shared on another newsgroup and I thought others might want to see
>>> it:
>>>
>>> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pcfz3zt2DDo
>>>
>>>
>>> Steve
>> _____

And Steve, I never said that some phono collectors aren't creepy.  Some 
are VERY creepy.  But after all, we here on the 78-L are RECORD 
collectors, not PHONOGRAPH collectors!!!!!

Mike Biel   mbiel at mbiel.com