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Must have been an HDTV that allowed a viewer to read the letter.
"I was watching an episode of "Leave It to Beaver" tonight when I got to the part where Ward reads a note from Beaver's principal, Mrs. Rayburn...."
"My Dear Mr. Cleaver:
This paragraph has absolutely nothing to do with anything.
It is here merely to fill up space. Still, it is words,
rather than repeated letters, since the latter might not
give the proper appearance, namely, that of an actual note...."
Years ago, I used to watch the soap opera One Life to Live. I was watching one day and a scene had a family sitting around the kitchen table eating breakfast. One person was reading a newspaper. During the scene, the camera panned around and I could see a script taped to the inside of the paper the actor was reading.
There is a scene in a Doctor Who episode with Tom Baker in "The Pyramids of Mars" where a stagehand's hand can be seen creeping in behing the doctor and removing a microphone from a throne.
There is an early I love Lucy episode where you can see Fred and Ethel step over a huge cable in the hallway when they are leaving the Ricardo's apartment.
Years ago, one of the daytime soaps: Husband/wife having a drink in Living Room. Commercial Break. Scene resumes and She reaches down and picks up drink from coffee table - He says, "I think that's my drink" and She says, with complete aplomb, "No it isn't, you left yours in the kitchen". Actually, the drink in question was His - he had placed it on the coffee table before the break and She had still had hers in her hand.
I like some of the rest of the note " My typing is lousy, but the typewriter isn’t so hot either." "This is the last line of the filler material of the note. No, my mistake, that was only the next to last. This is last."
Neat pick-up. I'd imagine that before *VHS they didn't need to think too much about stuff that might only be seen for a brief period. I know in the animated film "The Rescuers" there's even briefly a photo of a topless woman in the window. (Although that was reportedly tampering rather than an animators joke)
I think it would be more amazing if they caught lucy on camera acting normal.
I think it would be more amazing if they caught Lucy on camera acting .
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I was watching a favorite movie of mine on a new HDTV a few years ago, The Time Machine (1960).
Anyone remember the scene where Rod Taylor was perusing the ancient, crumbling books in the Eloi's library?
For the hell of it, I googled one of the chapter headings and some electronic library website identified it as:
"The Life Story of Theodore Roosevelt" (1910)
By Charles Morris
(with some pages mixed up from different chapters)
Notice the color of that page ... looks like they had removed it from the book and treated it with something [or cooked it up somehow] to age it.
Then, when he slams the cover and the whole book disintegrates, you can see parts of photographs and (look quick) for part of a crossword puzzle, going frame-by-frame. That old book was a mock-up made of aged, crumbly newspaper.
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