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So cool. Crazy how vocal Fred Hofman is behind the plate in the Boston/Washington game. You virtually never hear a peep form any catcher these days. It sounds like him chirping, anyways.
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Thanks for sharing!
Thanks for sharing!
Enjoyed watching Ty Cobb especially with one of his beautiful dogs! I was also surprised by Walter Johnson's voice! Thanks, Patrick |
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Wow!
So cool, thanks for sharing!
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Love the "sandlot" film. thanks for sharing.
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I am in trouble because I could watch this stuff for hours! Thank you
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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. Last edited by BillyCoxDodgers3B; 09-24-2020 at 09:57 PM. |
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I eagerly await the sleuthing skills of all of our photo ID experts! It's incredible to hear these voices and see these players as young men in brand new, vintage uniforms! Can't wait to discover footage of any old friends of mine! Hopefully there will be a couple of them in the mix!
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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...
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Hank,
Maybe it's just a case of my not having listened to his voice in a while. Guess I could have forgotten his unusual timbre (but how could you?). I will say that the audio on some of the other videos is actually very good. In one of the 1930 Pirates spring training videos, I'm certain I heard the voice of Ben Sankey from off-camera clear as day. He said about three words, but his voice sounded just as when I knew him! No audio that I could find, but I did briefly see my old friend Harry Danning throwing a ball and smiling, and another great guy I knew, Joe Moore, getting a single in a game. It was a treat to hear Pete Alexander so clearly and to watch Dazzy Vance explain pitching mechanics. Thanks again to the OP for the link! |
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I don't understand your question. I never heard him in person, if that's what you're referring to. He's sounded about the same to me in all of the recordings I've heard. You get an hour or so of it in the 1939 game broadcast. I've never thought of it as particularly unusual, just a high-pitched voice, no doubt surprising to some people coming from such a big guy, but I'm not sure there's any actual "normal" correlation between the two. As I mentioned, just listen to some Will Rogers if you to hear another example of what I believe to be more of a regional accent than some sort of freaky timbre.
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Yeah, he was also moving all over the place behind the plate, making lots of motions towards the pitcher, probably trying to distract the hitter..............didn't seem to be working in those outtakes however, LOL. Fascinating! |
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