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Is he holding a Luger?
That's what I thought it was, looks like a Luger.
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This is the first time Turbo Encabulator was recorded with picture. I shot this in the late 70's at Regan Studios in Detroit on 16mm film. The narrator and writer is Bud Haggert. He was the top voice-over talent on technical films. He wrote the script because he rarely understood the technical copy he was asked to read and felt he shouldn't be alone. We had just finished a production for GMC Trucks and Bud asked since this was the perfect setting could we film his Turbo Encabulator script. He was using an audio prompter referred to as "the ear". He was actually the pioneer of the ear. He was to deliver a live speech without a prompter. After struggling in his hotel room trying to commit to memory he went to plan B. He recorded it to a large Wollensak reel to reel recorder and placed it in the bottom of the podium. With a wired earplug he used it for the speech and the "ear" was invented. Today every on-camera spokesperson uses a variation of Bud's innovation. Dave Rondot (me) was the director and John Choate was the DP on this production. The first laugh at the end is mine. My hat's off to Bud a true talent.
This is the first time Turbo Encabulator was recorded with picture. I shot this in the late 70's at Regan Studios in Detroit on 16mm film. The narrator and writer is Bud Haggert. He was the top voice-over talent on technical films. He wrote the script because he rarely understood the technical copy he was asked to read and felt he shouldn't be alone. We had just finished a production for GMC Trucks and Bud asked since this was the perfect setting could we film his Turbo Encabulator script. He was using an audio prompter referred to as "the ear". He was actually the pioneer of the ear. He was to deliver a live speech without a prompter. After struggling in his hotel room trying to commit to memory he went to plan B. He recorded it to a large Wollensak reel to reel recorder and placed it in the bottom of the podium. With a wired earplug he used it for the speech and the "ear" was invented. Today every on-camera spokesperson uses a variation of Bud's innovation. Dave Rondot (me) was the director and John Choate was the DP on this production. The first laugh at the end is mine. My hat's off to Bud a true talent.
Just so you should know, we technicians worshiped the "Turbo Encabulator" film for decades.
We would often downshift to fake terms when describing the work we did, to a customer in order to fix their machine.
I can tell you, it is really hard not to bust out laughing when your buddy goes into a precise description of the difficulty we had, using complete fiction.
It always started with the "framus coil" as a tipoff to each other.
In the end the customer was always delighted he got a 'miracle' performed for only $800
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This reminds me so much of "Jabberwocky."
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I'm quite certain this is how my kid reacts on the other end of the phone when I call for tech support.
last years but still funny...
Thanks, now I have that gross image in my headIf Ellen and Rocky had a baby.
Jim
Thanks, now I have that gross image in my head
Another need for EYE BLEACH
We found one of those in a drawer after Grandma died. It was really old but dad took it in to be developed. The pictures came out but nobody knew who the people were. Some old folk from the senior center was the best guess.
My nephew handed those out at his wedding to all the guests. They were some really weird pictures and a few that had shots up some skirts. It turned out a small girl had taken the pictures and she was so short it just happened and nobody realized it at the time.
The bride confiscated and destroyed all those pictures.
I put the lights on the tree as the wife asked me to.
