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- From: csh@ulysses.att.com (Charles S. Harris)
- Subject: Re: Where was this special effect used?
- Message-ID: <1992Nov8.085037.10842@ulysses.att.com>
- Date: Sun, 8 Nov 1992 08:50:37 GMT
- References: <1992Nov4.205023.44405@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu>
- Organization: Creative Thinking & Diversity, Middletown, NJ 07748-3208
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- > I'm going to describe a special effect that I "invented"...
- > I used to do this as a kid; the idea is to produce the effect of an
- > alien speaking English.
- > (a) write out the lines you want the alien to speak;
- > (b) transcribe the lines phonetically;
- > (c) reverse the results of (b), so that you have a reverse
- > transcription;
- > (d) make a tape recording of the results of (c);
- > (e) play the tape backwards.
-
- Ken-- I'd hate to undermine your claim to priority, but I suspect
- that I was doing this as a kid before you were. To give you some
- idea of the timeframe, my recorder used WIRE instead of tape.
- It took quite a lot of trial and error to get it to sound
- halfway decent. I was surprised to find that I had to insert a
- Y or W in front of so many of the backwards vowels.
- --Charlie Harris
-