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Skriven 2012-09-08 16:34:46 av Roy Witt (1:387/22)
   Kommentar till text 3547 av Richard Webb (1:116/901.0)
Ärende: Pecos Bill and Slue-Foot Sue too!   was: Ward's Z1 node number
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01 Jan 70 00:00, Richard Webb wrote to Roy Witt:

 RW> <snip>

 RW>> DOn't think I ever heard those, but for blind folks who read them on
 RW>> 16 2/3 rpm lp records under the library of Congress program they
 RW>> were narrated by Burt Blackwell, and any old blind person who grew
 RW>> up post ww ii when the LIbrary of COngress talking book program
 RW>> really took off can remember Burt, an excellent reader who really
 RW>> got into what he was reading.  NOt the best for nonfiction, but burt
 RW>> could bring stories alive.

 Roy>> At the time I wasn't really into who was doing the narrating, but
 Roy>> really into the stories as the recordings came in an album that had
 Roy>> pictures to follow along with the story. You should certainly be
 Roy>> aware of 'Fantasia', one of the earliest Mickey Mouse animated
 Roy>> feature films of the late 1930s.

 RW> YEah think I heard of it, don't think I ever was able to sit through
 RW> it though even if it was playing somewhere I was.

One has to have an appreciation for classical music to enjoy Fantasia.

 RW>  The talking book program used to get some fairly well known names as
 RW> readers back in those days. QST came on open reel tape at first, then
 RW> cassette, 4 track mono, half speed, read by Vic CLark, w4kfc, who
 RW> actually understood the blind man's method of describing schematic
 RW> diagrams, unlike modern qst readers who are just any old person they
 RW> can seem to grab.

Perhaps he had personal experience with a blind person in his life. Having
a 'manic depressive' in my life certainly gave me some insight into the
so-called mentally ill problems that some familys go thru.

 RW> I think arrl had Vic doing it somewhere else than American Printing
 RW> house for the blind's studios in Louisville though, and they took
 RW> some time and care with it. But, that also meant your qst came
 RW> to you months late.

Since you couldn't read it in its published format, you didn't know what
it said anyway.

 Roy>> Dancing brooms and flooded basement brought about by the apprentice
 Roy>> magician, Mickey Mouse.

 RW> YEp, was a take off of the old sorcerer's apprentice story.

Meanwhile, the more recent Nick Cage film version doesn't.

 RW> <snip>

 RW>> I actually liked Pecos Bill better
 RW>> than Paul Bunyon and some of the other legends of that type.

 Roy>> I had to live with legends of Paul Bunyan, since my grandfather
 Roy>> lived with his family at the turn of the 20th century on a lake in
 Roy>> Minnesota. Paul Bunyan was a 'must visit' feature when we went
 Roy>> there to visit. No one ever believes me when I say that you can
 Roy>> step across the Mississippi river head where it comes out of the
 Roy>> ground as a spring near the Paul Bunyan 'real sized' statues of him
 Roy>> and Babe, the Blue Ox...

 RW> Yeup, been there, adn stepped across the river there <grin>. The Paul
 RW> legends were fun, but pb was a bit wilder imho, and a bit more
 RW> irreverent too, which was right up this wild pre-teen's alley.  YOu
 RW> gotta remember, I was essentially raised in a zoo about that time
 RW> period, a dormitory with 30-40 boys and adult supervision that
 RW> couldn't keep up even if it was provided by superman.

LOL! My friend Andrew (47yo) came  over for a visit last night and I had
chosen a movie on TV to watch, which was about teenagers in the 1950s. He
has a habit of commenting on trivial things in films and kept telling me
that this or that was fake or non-compliant with the 1950s. I finally had
to ask if he 'lived the 50s', because what I was seeing was damned close
to what I experienced in that era. This last one was about long hair and
nobody in the 50s had hair that long. Needless to say that I did! So I
jumped on his shit and asked him where he got his 1950s living experience.
His reply was that he saw pictures of his mom and uncle, both teens at the
time. Neither of them had hair or clothes to match the 50s in those
photos. I told him that his mom and uncle grew up in Minnesota, more like
squaresville in that era. Which is what real teens of the time would
consider farmers, aka clod hoppers...he finally shut up.

                R\%/itt


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