RE: What Do You Know Today That You Didn't Know Yesterday?
December 1, 2019 at 12:45 am
(This post was last modified: December 1, 2019 at 12:54 am by Rev. Rye.)
Today, I found out that, contrary to popular belief, the vocoder wasn’t invented by Wendy Carlos for A Clockwork Orange, but actually has a history longer than that. Hell, ACO wasn’t even the first Best Picture nominee to use it. There are a few instances of its use in A Letter to Three Wives. While I haven’t found clips of the relevant scenes on Youtube, here’s a page about it with audio of the scenes in question.
The first use of the vocoder (then known as the Sonovox) in film? Right here:
There’s also a 1939 newsreel of Lucille Ball, of all people, demonstrating the Sonovox, and it’s a positively surreal experience to hear the sound of Hell itself coming out of the mouth of Lucy Ricardo.
The first use of the vocoder (then known as the Sonovox) in film? Right here:
There’s also a 1939 newsreel of Lucille Ball, of all people, demonstrating the Sonovox, and it’s a positively surreal experience to hear the sound of Hell itself coming out of the mouth of Lucy Ricardo.
Comparing the Universal Oneness of All Life to Yo Mama since 2010.
I was born with the gift of laughter and a sense the world is mad.
I was born with the gift of laughter and a sense the world is mad.