Been watching the reruns on Antenna TV. I swear that every now and then James Brown voice has been dubbed as if the sound was lost and they had to get someone to try and dub his voice. If that's the case, they didn't do a very good job.
I can't believe that the episodes weren't better preserved than they seem to be.
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11/03/2013 8:05am
n.debrabant:
The Adventures of Rin Tin Tin
I've been watching the series on Antenna TV also,
and I noticed the strange voices coming from the TV.
I wasn't looking at the TV, I was just listening,
then I heard a very high squeaky voice coming from
the character 'Rusty.'
(I agree Lt. Rip Masters had his voice altered also)
Apparently, his voice was replaced by an adult
who was trying to sound like a 10 year old kid.
I knew that this was not his 'normal' voice.
Why couldn't they find better voices?
They make it so loud that you notice
it right off and it is very odd.
ellisisle
I just watched "Rusty's Reward" and noticed the same thing. Russell Johnson (aka The Professor on "Gilligan's Island) was on it and for some odd reason, his voice was dubbed, too. Really sounded funny. The lady running the orphanage was dubbed and the kids singing and speaking was as well. I guess the originals must have suffered some degradation.
shareI noticed right off the bat the music is not original... sounds like they did some work in 80's. Some of it not to good either... a distorted Electric Guitar was really out of place in the one episode.
shareThere is also an annoying clicking sound in the soundtrack I hear sometimes, as if a film projector is slipping its sprockets.
Although film preservation has been going on in one form or another since the Thirties, preserving TV shows is a fairly recent idea. Back in the old days, the idea of "classic television shows" was laughable, like talking about "antique television sets". An equivalent today might be "classic You Tube videos". Save those You Tube videos, because you never know!
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These old shows have been visually restored beautifully, but apparently the audio was beyond repair.
Hence--dubbing.
I've never watched this show before in my life, but I was flipping through the channels and happened upon a rerun and something about the music immediately seemed off to me. I've noticed the same sort of distracting dubbing occurring within a few of the cartoons featured in Antenna TV's Totally Tooned In program. In that case, it was my assumption that there were copyright issues with the music that was originally used in said cartoons, and they were forced loop in distinctly different voices and music, so I was guessing that perhaps there was a similar situation with this show.
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