(December 1, 2019 at 12:45 am)Rev. Rye Wrote: 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.
Today I learned that, in 1939, Lucille Ball was a slamming hottie.
Damn.
Boru
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