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Re: possibly OT? bird song in movies

Subject: Re: possibly OT? bird song in movies
From: "Ed Anson" ed_anson
Date: Wed Mar 28, 2007 7:03 pm ((PDT))
I don't know what's up with the server. I'm seeing several messages 
repeated, some several times. But I count 7 copies of krnodil's 
message.

Ed

On Mar 28, 2007, at 6:55 PM, Martyn Stewart wrote:

> You only have to apologize once :-)
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> Subject: [Nature Recordists] possibly OT? bird song in movies
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> Hello all,
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> I apologize if this is too OT for the list - you're the only ones out
> there that I thought might appreciate the observation I wanted to
> make. :)
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> Just finished watching the recent movie "Blood Diamond" as was
> continually distracted by the frequent use of what I think was a
> Black-Throated Green Warbler, and a couple of times I thought I heard
> a Hairy Woodpecker to boot. All heard within the African jungle,
> which if my guides are accurate, really isn't possible?
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> I supposed it's not news that movies often use bird song for
> environmental "color", song that is not realistically possible in the
> location in which the movie is set. But I just had to vent. :)
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> Thanks for humoring me,
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> Karen
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> "Microphones are not ears,
> Loudspeakers are not birds,
> A listening room is not nature."
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