Thursday, July 28, 2011
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Tuesday, July 19, 2011
Darth Vader's voice BEFORE James Earl Jones dubbed in
Thought this was a cool clip....the actual actor for Darth Vader delivering the lines James Earl Jones would eventually dub over!
Friday, July 15, 2011
Ok, ok. So I'm a marketing nerd. Clever advertising alert!
I wish they would get creative like this in U.S. airports!
The first #voiceover EVER was done by a woman in 1888!
AND it was done in New Jersey. Tee hee. Read it and weep, boys. ![]()
(07-14) 09:20 PDT Trenton, N.J. (AP) --
Scientists believe a 123-year-old recording made by Thomas Edison was the first attempt at a talking doll and possibly the oldest surviving commercial recording.
A woman's voice can be heard singing "Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star."
Edison hired the woman and made the recording in 1888 in West Orange, N.J., less than two years before he unsuccessfully put the doll on the market.
The recording showed up in Edison's Menlo Park museum collection in 1967. But the small piece of ring-shaped tin was so bent and damaged that scientists couldn't play.
A laboratory in California used advanced imaging technology in May to reproduce the audio on a computer.
Read more at www.sfgate.comScientists believe it's the first known instance of someone being hired to perform for a recording.