Re: [IRCA] The King's Speech

[Ira Elbert New III <ien3@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

You're right about the echo, but it was a neat shot. If only I had a studio like that back in the day...

Bert New
Watkinsville, Georgia
Proudly Serving You Since 1964!




> Date: Sat, 15 Jan 2011 13:56:51 -0500
> From: scott@xxxxxxxxxx
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> Subject: Re: [IRCA] The King's Speech
> 
> Mike Sanburn wrote:
> > I want to see The Kings Speech badly. It's still at my local theater
> > thankfully. 'Can't wait to see the old radios. ms
> 
> It's an excellent movie - the acting is splendid and the story is 
> fascinating.
> 
> I'm told that the scenes that feature what appears to be a BBC 
> transmitting station, with long rows of racks full of meters and such, 
> each topped with the name of an area of the British empire, is actually 
> the historic Battersea power-generating station, and I rather doubt that 
> the scene near the very beginning that purports to be inside a BBC 
> studio looks much like a real studio - it's all marble walls, which 
> would have made for one echoey broadcast.
> 
> But that's just nitpicking; there are indeed lots of nice vintage radios 
> to be seen!
> 
> s
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