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Oh yeah, I think it had to do with him being dragged by the ear.
This kinda reminds of the debate over who created the first video game, but this debate stems more from the question of what constitutes a video game.
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I don't really care about who invented what, but the fact that this is the voice of someone living 148 years ago feels quite significant.
But my favorite 'oldest media ever' is the 1888 Leeds Bridge scene, because it simply shows a short slice of ordinary life, and there is a lot going on for such a short piece of film. This Leeds Film Festival trailer sums it up quite nicely .
quote:Originally posted by Harry: I don't really care about who invented what, but the fact that this is the voice of someone living 148 years ago feels quite significant.
History sometimes seems so sterile that it's fascinating to me to see more personal imprints. The most dramatic example I've personally seen is in Holyrood Palace in Edinburgh, Scotland. I don't remember a whole lot about the palace since the tour I was on was rather brief. However, I remember the northern turret room pretty well. In that room Mary Queen of Scots' secretary David Rizzio was murdered in 1565. It's believed that the large dark stain in a corner of the room is indeed Rizzio's blood.
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I remember seeing an original Edison Film a while back. It was shot from one of the gondolas in one of the canals made especially for the Pan-American Exposition in Buffalo. To see that film, and to see people and what they did in their normal lives here in Buffalo a hundred years ago is amazing. To tour the house that President McKinley died in and to see the gun that he was killed with two or three days after that film was made was simply breath taking. Britain obviously has a much older history tha Buffalo, but it is still cool.
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Speaking of McKinley and voice recordings, there's one in his Wikipedia article from 1896. It starts out with some historian giving background information, so you have to skip ahead to around the six-minute mark, I think, to hear McKinley. The way he speaks sounds really weird to modern ears. I don't know if he would have sounded pretty typical at the time, or not.
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My computer cant play wiki files, so I had to search for it on the net. I found it on youtube . Around the 55 second mark, there is some wierd noise, I guess either a train, or the crowd cheering. I think he sounds like a typical Beacon Hill aristocrat.
And here is his assassin's exicution, although I think this one was an actual movie recreated by Thomas Edison instead of the actuall thing.
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I've often wondered about the voices on radio broadcasts from the 20s-40s. Weird accents, and the women always seem to be speaking in a hesitant falsetto.
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Well, they were pretty much playing a character, whether a voice play, or just DJing, and the men might have needed to enunciate their words to be heard by the broad cast technology of the time.
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