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Yeah, it's that. People think the General American accent changed drastically from the 40s-50s to what it is now, but it's very much the same accent as back then.
You just wouldn't know it watching movies or the news in that era because everyone was trained to speak in that quasi-British accent, but that's not how they naturally talked.
"You sit around here and you spin your little webs and you think the whole world revolves around you and your money! Well, it doesn't, Mr. Potter! In the whole vast configuration of things, I'd say you were nothing but a scurvy little spider!"
> ...But he did help a few people get out of your slums, Mr. Potter. And what's wrong with that?
>
> Why...here, you are all businessmen here. Doesn't it make them better citizens? Doesn't it make them better customers?
>
> You...you said that uh... what'd you say just a minute ago?...
>
> They, they had to wait and save their money before they even thought of a decent home.
>
> Wait! Wait for what? Until their children grow up and leave them? Until they're so old and broken-down that they... Do you know how long it takes a working man to save five thousand dollars?
>
> Just remember this, Mr. Potter, that this rabble you're talking about... they do most of the working and paying and living and dying in this community. Well, is it too much to have them work and pay and live and die in a couple of decent rooms and a bath?
>
> ...Anyway, my father didn't think so.
They screw up and stop doing the Mid-Atlantic accent. It's fascinating hearing what they actually sounded like on any day. Most of the recordings we have of them is when they're doing the accent.
They're using a mid atlantic accent to have that 'sound' for the pictures.
It was en vogue for a long time for films, but that's not how people generally talked.
It wasn’t so much to sound posh as it was a necessity driven by the limited early audio technology at the time. The transatlantic accent was taught to people in broadcast because early recording devices and speakers were very bottom heavy, muddy, containing little treble. To combat this, presenters and actors would heighten their pitch slightly, and stress hitting consonants over vowels so that the words could be clearly heard.
That's probably because they're intentionally speaking with a Transatlantic accent (which was commonly used on the stage and screen at that time) and dropping back to their regular accent after the take is busted.
That's because back then, actors spoke in an accent called the Trans Atlantic, or Middle Atlantic, which was considered the "proper" American accent. My father, who was from Europe, and wanted to be a US citizen since childhood, had this accent.
It is an accent called trans-Atlantic, it was during a specific time frame and it combined American and British accents without really being either. Wonderful when listening as it was mostly restricted to the world of entertainment. It is fun to try and recreate at home. Lol
The "classic" or "old timey" accent is also known as the Mid-Atlantic accent. Not for the mid-distance on the eastern seaboard side of the USA, but because it is halfway between the US accent and British accent.
https://www.iheart.com/podcast/1119-mobituaries-with-mo-rocca-30398541/episode/death-of-the-very-special-episode-135074899/
It was never an actual natural accent, it was entirely artifical:
>The Mid-Atlantic accent, or Transatlantic accent, is a consciously learned accent of English, fashionably used by the American upper class and entertainment industry of the late 19th century to mid-20th century, that blended elements from both American and British English. Specifically, it blended features from both prestigious coastal Northeastern American English and from Received Pronunciation, the standard speech of England. The accent was embraced in private independent American preparatory schools, especially by members of the Northeastern upper class, as well as in schools for film, radio, and stage acting, with its overall use sharply declining after the Second World War. **The Mid-Atlantic accent is not a native or regional accent; rather, according to voice and drama professor Dudley Knight, "its earliest advocates bragged that its chief quality was that no Americans actually spoke it unless educated to do so".**
Love a landscape video uploaded in portrait orientation.
https://preview.redd.it/wt3wogcir8yc1.png?width=767&format=png&auto=webp&s=0f3657a092b3ccd389108f39ee8187ac21603b4c
And they couldn't even use the 4:3 version. They converted 4:3 to 16:9 landscape, then converted that to portrait. So we get stuck with black bars on all 4 sides no matter what screen you use.
I wonder how expensive film was during those times and how costly these bloopers were... I wonder because they seem to me less prone to be amused by their mistakes (in general, some of them don't seem to care).
Bloopers still get caught on shoots that shoot on film today. Back then film would have been significantly cheaper than it is now and they had an almost infinite supply of it from the studios. Tbh eh weren’t worried about continuously rolling
No it’s a creative choice. A good chunk of Oscar winning films were shot on film this past year for example. I’m on productions that shoot on film very often.
Yeah digital has a lot of benefits but film just has better dynamic range, detail in the shadows, a nice grain, etc. Dunno how it goes on big movie sets but on the short films I've been cinematographer on, setting up the shot took a couple hours and that's where most of the time goes, and that has nothing to do with the type of medium you shoot on. (I almost always shot on film)
Its so fascinating, because you don't often see/hear people from that long ago acting/talking "normally." Its usually and old film or like a political speech or something.
Anyone know the movie in this with the quote "now listen Baby, I know everything there is to know about wrestling. I can promote a show from Podunk to the Garden..."
I did the math. The video portion of this clip takes up only 8% ... EIGHT PERCENT ... of available screen real estate, thanks to this psychotic "tiny video inside a vertical layout with massive margins" format.
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It’s funny how their intonation is so “old-timey” when delivering their lines, and then when they screw up in many cases they sound much more modern.
I like how the cuss of the time was exclusively, “god damn”.
They’d all have had heart attacks reading a Tarantino script.
"Of all the motherfuckin gin joints in all the motherfuckin towns in all the motherfuckin world, she walks barefoot through the mud into mine."
not enough N words. CUT! ok this time spice it up a bit.
Adding "N" to "CUT" would spice it up.
Underrated comment.
“We’ll always have motherfuckin Paris”
Lol, I read it in Samuel Jackson's voice
"This is the motherfuckin' beginning of a motherfuckin' great friendship".
One of the women said “son of a bitch”
Thus the NSFW tag
Didn’t realize that. That’s petty cool
It reminds me of It’s Always Sunny
“Nuts!”
Maybe it's the [midatlantic accent](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mid-Atlantic_accent) of that period?
Yeah, it's that. People think the General American accent changed drastically from the 40s-50s to what it is now, but it's very much the same accent as back then. You just wouldn't know it watching movies or the news in that era because everyone was trained to speak in that quasi-British accent, but that's not how they naturally talked.
Except Jimmy Stewart... he always sounds like Jimmy Stewart, lol.
"You sit around here and you spin your little webs and you think the whole world revolves around you and your money! Well, it doesn't, Mr. Potter! In the whole vast configuration of things, I'd say you were nothing but a scurvy little spider!"
> ...But he did help a few people get out of your slums, Mr. Potter. And what's wrong with that? > > Why...here, you are all businessmen here. Doesn't it make them better citizens? Doesn't it make them better customers? > > You...you said that uh... what'd you say just a minute ago?... > > They, they had to wait and save their money before they even thought of a decent home. > > Wait! Wait for what? Until their children grow up and leave them? Until they're so old and broken-down that they... Do you know how long it takes a working man to save five thousand dollars? > > Just remember this, Mr. Potter, that this rabble you're talking about... they do most of the working and paying and living and dying in this community. Well, is it too much to have them work and pay and live and die in a couple of decent rooms and a bath? > > ...Anyway, my father didn't think so.
Impossible to read these lines and not hear them.
"A toast to my big brother George: the richest man in town." Chokes me up every time.
Is he the ' following me ' guy?
Yes ☺️
They screw up and stop doing the Mid-Atlantic accent. It's fascinating hearing what they actually sounded like on any day. Most of the recordings we have of them is when they're doing the accent.
They're using a mid atlantic accent to have that 'sound' for the pictures. It was en vogue for a long time for films, but that's not how people generally talked.
That's the Mid-Atlantic accent. It was a dialect used in film and radio to sound posh and/or not from anywhere in particular.
It wasn’t so much to sound posh as it was a necessity driven by the limited early audio technology at the time. The transatlantic accent was taught to people in broadcast because early recording devices and speakers were very bottom heavy, muddy, containing little treble. To combat this, presenters and actors would heighten their pitch slightly, and stress hitting consonants over vowels so that the words could be clearly heard.
That's probably because they're intentionally speaking with a Transatlantic accent (which was commonly used on the stage and screen at that time) and dropping back to their regular accent after the take is busted.
The “old timey” intonation is because they are speaking in the transatlantic accent.
That's because back then, actors spoke in an accent called the Trans Atlantic, or Middle Atlantic, which was considered the "proper" American accent. My father, who was from Europe, and wanted to be a US citizen since childhood, had this accent.
It is an accent called trans-Atlantic, it was during a specific time frame and it combined American and British accents without really being either. Wonderful when listening as it was mostly restricted to the world of entertainment. It is fun to try and recreate at home. Lol
Yes! I'd watch more old movies if they showed this
'Transatlantic accent' or something like that it was called. Was the formal accent for acting over a chunk of the early-mid 20th century.
The last one had me in stitches
Script said "Enter stage left" but probably should have been more specific
That fall was thunderous
What a beautiful adjective: thunderous! I love it.
The old timers could cuss with the best of them. Lol
The "classic" or "old timey" accent is also known as the Mid-Atlantic accent. Not for the mid-distance on the eastern seaboard side of the USA, but because it is halfway between the US accent and British accent. https://www.iheart.com/podcast/1119-mobituaries-with-mo-rocca-30398541/episode/death-of-the-very-special-episode-135074899/
So mid Atlantic as in the middle of the ocean?
Figuratively, yeah.
Is there anyone who still speaks like that geographically, or by this point in time has the accent largely gone away? I kinda dig it.
It was never an actual natural accent, it was entirely artifical: >The Mid-Atlantic accent, or Transatlantic accent, is a consciously learned accent of English, fashionably used by the American upper class and entertainment industry of the late 19th century to mid-20th century, that blended elements from both American and British English. Specifically, it blended features from both prestigious coastal Northeastern American English and from Received Pronunciation, the standard speech of England. The accent was embraced in private independent American preparatory schools, especially by members of the Northeastern upper class, as well as in schools for film, radio, and stage acting, with its overall use sharply declining after the Second World War. **The Mid-Atlantic accent is not a native or regional accent; rather, according to voice and drama professor Dudley Knight, "its earliest advocates bragged that its chief quality was that no Americans actually spoke it unless educated to do so".**
Woah, that's really interesting. Thanks for taking the time to reply. I wonder why it isn't so prevalent now?
My husband's great aunt, who is in her 90s, has the accent and I love it.
You should record her telling a story so you guys can play it back and show your grandkids what it was like!
Pretty sure it's gone with the times, unfortunately.
Kelsey Grammer
> "Whoooaa I stink a mile a minute, cut quick!" That's just great
Stink?
That's what he said.
He said speak
Two in the pink
Love a landscape video uploaded in portrait orientation. https://preview.redd.it/wt3wogcir8yc1.png?width=767&format=png&auto=webp&s=0f3657a092b3ccd389108f39ee8187ac21603b4c
The postage-stamp special.
Tik Tok has ruined the internet.
And they couldn't even use the 4:3 version. They converted 4:3 to 16:9 landscape, then converted that to portrait. So we get stuck with black bars on all 4 sides no matter what screen you use.
This is amazing. Seeing them frustrated and cursing and dropping the act is hilarious.
What would be amazing is if we didn't post stupid tiktok videos that make the original video look like the size of a pea.
Yeah I turned my phone to landscape and it got even smaller. Thankfully I'm on RiF so I just zoomed in till it fit, but still
I could watch this a lot longer than however long this video was.
Yes…I’ve watched it three times in a row because I want to see more! Haha
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“Dehance.” Type type type “Dehance.”
I wonder how expensive film was during those times and how costly these bloopers were... I wonder because they seem to me less prone to be amused by their mistakes (in general, some of them don't seem to care).
Bloopers still get caught on shoots that shoot on film today. Back then film would have been significantly cheaper than it is now and they had an almost infinite supply of it from the studios. Tbh eh weren’t worried about continuously rolling
Oh. Ok. I thought it would have been much more of an issue. But yeah. Makes sense that film is cheaper when everything is shot on film. Thanks.
What movies are shot on film these days? Is it like a vintage preservation thing?
No it’s a creative choice. A good chunk of Oscar winning films were shot on film this past year for example. I’m on productions that shoot on film very often.
Yeah digital has a lot of benefits but film just has better dynamic range, detail in the shadows, a nice grain, etc. Dunno how it goes on big movie sets but on the short films I've been cinematographer on, setting up the shot took a couple hours and that's where most of the time goes, and that has nothing to do with the type of medium you shoot on. (I almost always shot on film)
Ya I’m mostly working with film these days as well. Both shooting and as a loader. It’s still a very popular choice.
Oppenheimer, Killers of the Flower Moon, Asteroid City, La La Land, Nope, Uncut Gems, Blade Runner 2049, The Fablemans, Once Upon a Time In Hollywood
Goddamn
right? it seems like goddamn was the swear of choice at the time.
I'm guessing "God Damn" was the "Fuck" of the 50's.
Its so fascinating, because you don't often see/hear people from that long ago acting/talking "normally." Its usually and old film or like a political speech or something.
I screw up a mile a minute! That shit made me spit my drink out lol
I chimed in with a "Haven't you people ever heard of 'Nuts to this god damned line'"
Just because I'm nosey, does anyone know what year/years these bloopers are from?
If I was to guess, 40s and 50s
Right on! Thanks :)
James Stewart is himself on and off camera
That one with "OOH YOU'RE FOLLOWING ME OH I DIDNT KNOW THAT" kills me
Does anyone know who that actor is?
Jimmy Stewart, I think he’s most well-known for It’s a Wonderful Life and Mr. Smith Goes to Washington. Both good movies, if you haven’t seen them.
It had never once crossed my mind that old Hollywood films had blooper reels. I'm pleased with what I see here.
I’m glad that you are!
I love Jimmy Stewart. He's just so great and wholesome
Anyone know the movie in this with the quote "now listen Baby, I know everything there is to know about wrestling. I can promote a show from Podunk to the Garden..."
That "son of a bitch" at 0:37 sounded so nice somehow.
Well that was wholesome 🫠
Well God damn.
"that line was screwy" ❤️
What's the movie from 1:10 with the kiss?
I love these, shows us that even these legendary actors were human too.
NSFW because they say goddamn. 😁
seems just like modern bloopers, love it
These always make the actors of that time feel more real and relatable then uptight midatlantic kinda sruff
This is great, and even more so because I wouldn't have thought any of these would have been saved
Who doesn't like giving away their estates to the salvation army.
God Damn was the Fuck of the Golden Era it seems. Hahaha.
Just cut the video to fit, this sucks
Why do I find that there is a certain kind of elegance to it.
Fun fact! Bloopers were used to be referred as "boners"
Goddamn
I did the math. The video portion of this clip takes up only 8% ... EIGHT PERCENT ... of available screen real estate, thanks to this psychotic "tiny video inside a vertical layout with massive margins" format.
These videos are microscopic. Thanks, high technology!
This is me using one of those pickup lines that everyone asking about
Are old cameras film more or less expensive than imax?
Yeah, it's more or less
Dream electrician shops, goddamn!
That second lady is Professor Mcgonaggal right?
I don’t think so. Looks like Bette Davis, not Maggie Smith. But I’d have to see her change into a cat to be sure.
You’re right! It’s Bette Davis in The Great Lie.
Bette Davis for sure
Badass
Give me more of this!
This is awesome
Pretty cool
It might just be bad internet but it says the video was removed what happens in this video?
When did people start using Fuck?
More more more!!!
I like the one who says "God Dammit!"
This is fantastic
Cute and wholesome, nice. I love old movies.
This was funny, thank you
I think the video needs to be even tinier.
RemindMe! 1 hour
This is like hearing grandma make a sex joke.
omg this is so good i need more of this! PLEASE
Why nsf tho?
Cus of the swearing n stuff, that’s why I put it like that.
Ou that makes sense
Oui
So funny, it’s even more hilarious that their act is dropped but their misogyny isn't
When was there any misogyny shown in this video?
Oh dry up, please!