Tram Town
Monday, October 16, 2006
| Category: Audio DB and I do a bit of SFX work for theatre and, occasionally, film. This item on display ay the Williamstown Historical Society Museum is a sound effects machine used in cinema before the days of fully sychronised sound.  The device would sit up behind the screen and each of the handles could be turned to create an effect hopefully in sync with some on-screen action. Unfortunately, only one of the sounds is currently working; it is labelled twice, "Money" & "Broken Crockery", and is easliy recogisable as either. Image courtesy of the main man over at Diogenes' Lamp who, by the way, is also on display at Williamstown in The George Ridley Room. |
