The motion picture industry was in full swing years before synchronized sound was developed. Many engineers were working on adding sound to movies, but one of the strangest ideas came from romance novelist and amateur engineer Charles Felton Pidgin. In 1917 he patented an idea for adding word balloons to movies by having the actors blow into inflatable tubes that had the words on them! Think of the noisemakers at children’s birthday parties that unroll a paper tube when you blow in them -yeah, that’s the idea. I’ve seen no evidence that this technique was ever actually tried on the big screen, but I can imagine that it would be way more trouble than it was worth. Read more about the Beauty of Timelessly Bad Ideas at Ptak Science Books. -via Boing Boing
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"Frankly, Scarlet: (puff puff) I don't give (puff) a damn"
“The truth?!" (puff puff) You can't han (puff puff) dle the truth!”
Or Roy Batty's "Tears in Rain" soliloquy.
In the early 90s even I tried to get a job at one, and if I remember correctly, I was told that the commission earned was mostly thru (high pressure) battery sales. Retrospect says my decision to walk away was the correct choice, even before this news. There have been interviews with ex-employees long before this and it painted a pretty grim picture of the environment.
Homer: We'll search out every place a sick twisted solitary misfit might run to.
Lisa: I'll start with Radio Shack.