Things that are archaic

[Undertoad]

Why are sound effects people still using the vinyl record player scratch?

[glatt]

There are payphones at the North Rim of the Grand Canyon. My kids had never seen them before. I called them on my cell phone so they could use one.

Dot matrix printer paper. My wife was volunteering at the elementary school the other day, and the librarian had her separating the sheets of old dot matrix paper so kids could draw on them.

[wolf]

Originally Posted by Undertoad

Why are sound effects people still using the vinyl record player scratch?

Don't they have the laugh-track people who made Dick van Dyke more amusing since we weren't sure where the funny parts in the show were laughing at jokes on current sitcoms? Those sound effects guys hold on to stuff forever.

[jimhelm]

Originally Posted by wolf

Don't they have the laugh-track people who made Dick van Dyke more amusing since we weren't sure where the funny parts in the show were laughing at jokes on current sitcoms?

is it me? I can't parse this, meow. You been hanging out with tw?

[wolf]

Originally Posted by jimhelm

is it me? I can't parse this, meow. You been hanging out with tw?

Just take a deep breath and try again ... laughtracks. Archaic. Still using the same recorded giggles as I Love Lucy. Now, look at UT's comment about turntable pop and hiss.

[Undertoad]

Originally Posted by Undertoad

Why are sound effects people still using the vinyl record player scratch?

As asked by the NT Times.

Then there’s the record-scratch sound, still used frequently in ads and comic scenes to indicate someone’s train of thought going off the rails. Isn’t it weird that we still use that sound? For the most part, the last 20 years’ worth of viewers and listeners have never even heard that sound in real life! (In a 2008 NPR segment, the host asked some teenagers if they could identify the sound. They couldn’t. “I have no idea…. I know I saw it on TV.”)