You ever notice

[mikephillips]

Have you ever watched something you may have seen years ago, a TV show or movie, and now in the high resolution video we now have for everything noticed details you never realized?? Well I was watching an old episode of Gomer Pyle and there was a scene where Frank Sutton, Sgt Carter, and his corporal were out in front of the barracks discussing something and all around them were guys supposedly policing the grounds raking, sweeping and such. Well what I noticed was that no one using a rake or broom was actually touching the ground with it. Yep you could see that they were holding them a couple inches up and they moved them back and forth pretending to cleanup. And not moving from spots but just sort of turning in circles like they were all big windup toys. Pretty funny when I realized it was that way and not something I think we would have noticed back in the low detail analog days of TV.

 

[NutmegCT]

The miracles of HDTV! (Altho' my dad told me when the young guys were on KP, they'd go through the motions of peeling potatoes, but only every tenth potato would really get peeled. Wonder if that's what those young Marines were doing - and only real Marines watching the show would get the joke!!

 

[GregW]

All shows do that. Raking would be bad for the audio. You don't want noise pollution over the actors lines.
When scenes are filming, bars, nightclubs, chanting marches, background actors are all silent and miming there actions.
The background sounds are added into show long after the expensive people have gone home.

A lot changed when High Def. became common. Makeup had to be much more detailed for instance.

 

[mikephillips]

I just found it kind of humorous to see in HD that rakes and brooms were 2-3 inches above the ground, and that the guys using them were standing there not moving around. Would have looked better if back then they'd had the extras actually move around a bit like the scene was real..

 

[AngliaGT]

This is what keeps the Foley Artists in business.

 

[NutmegCT]

Let's not knock television. Some pithy comments from Fred Allen (radio comedian and "mortal enemy of Jack Benny" from the '40s and '50s) about TV:

• "Television is a new medium. It's called a medium because anything well done is rare."
• "Television is a device that permits people who haven't anything to do to watch people who can't do anything."
• "Imitation is the sincerest form of television."
• "Television is the triumph of machine over people."

 

[equiprx]

Let's not knock television. Some pithy comments from Fred Allen (radio comedian and "mortal enemy of Jack Benny" from the '40s and '50s) about TV:

• "Television is a new medium. It's called a medium because anything well done is rare."
• "Television is a device that permits people who haven't anything to do to watch people who can't do anything."
• "Imitation is the sincerest form of television."
• "Television is the triumph of machine over people."

Way to go Fred!!!