Well, it beats the hell out of the "upswing" and "vocal burn". However, in fairness, there are also a lot of people with East Coast accents (not Mid-Atlantic).
And I do appreciate that it's much clearer and in general people are better spoken on old time radio. It's not just how they speak, it's also the timber and fluency. I accidently overhear so much cringe-worthy conversation on public transit these days.
LOL the transatlantic accent definitely sounds so sophisticated. It's amazing that a lot of OTR shows have the audio quality that they do given that the cheapest radio would have been the production baseline. There's a police show, Nightwatch, that was the COPS of the day - it's really insightful as how people in California talked at the time and got caught up in social ills in post-war times.
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And I do appreciate that it's much clearer and in general people are better spoken on old time radio. It's not just how they speak, it's also the timber and fluency. I accidently overhear so much cringe-worthy conversation on public transit these days.
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LOL the transatlantic accent definitely sounds so sophisticated. It's amazing that a lot of OTR shows have the audio quality that they do given that the cheapest radio would have been the production baseline. There's a police show, Nightwatch, that was the COPS of the day - it's really insightful as how people in California talked at the time and got caught up in social ills in post-war times.
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