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Originally Posted by BillyCox3
I'm wondering (and surely hoping) there may be an issue with the audio for Walter.
It almost sounds like he inhaled some helium in places.
Edited to add: I've noticed this effect many times before with early talkies. One example that comes to mind
is that clip of Ruth and Ruppert when Babe is signing his contract. You'd almost think that somebody
has come up with a way of digitally restoring the audio to a truer semblance of what we should be hearing.
They likely have and I haven't looked it up.
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A good point. We can all hear in our heads (without even dialing up a YouTube version) Herb Morrison's horrified description
of the 1937 Hindenburg crash. Morrison sounds helium-injected and nerdly, but years later we found out he actually possessed
a fine radio baritone, and it's something in the preservation or rerecording of older sound-on-film that very slightly condenses
or speeds up vocal sounds and raises their pitch.
There are loads of correctly reconstructed versions of the broadcast now available on-line --here's just one
https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_c...ture=emb_title
-- and while Morrison is understandably overcome with emotion at witnessing the sudden flaming death of 36 human beings
(for all Morrison knew, all 97 aboard), at least his actual, non-Les-Nessman voice can be heard...