Avocet wrote:=0D
"When I was a Film Recordist, engine noise was the worst single=0D
problem. The Production team seemed to send out deaf folk=0D
to choose period locations. A favourite for Victorian dramas was Syon=0D
House which is beautiful with sweeping parkland and in the=0D
London area. Unfortunately it is also in line with one of the Heathrow=0D
runways and they alternated these on a two hourly basis. You could=0D
just cope with the other runway but not with an easterly wind and=0D
planes taking off over you once a minute."=0D
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That's interesting. It was while watching a Victorian drama (The Pallisers,=
c1980?) that I suddenly became aware of background noise. The scene was a =
quiet room, but I could hear distant road noise. I recognised it as the sou=
nd I had previously associated with silence at home.=0D
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I don't remember any aircraft noises though.=0D
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Peter Shute=0D
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