Often you can find a statement according to which in many comedies, including modern ones, we hear the laughter of long-dead people, since it was recorded back in the 1950s. We decided to check if this is so.
Most often, the assertion that the sunsid laughter that we hear in the sitcoms belongs to dead people can be found in collections of entertaining facts in social networks and on entertainment sites. For example, in one of the records for Pikabu It is said that this fact refers, for example, to the series "Friends". In one more entry on Pikabu It is argued that there was no clear refutation of the fact that the sitcoms abandoned the “mothballed laughter” recorded in the 1950s. Also, this statement is found in "VKontakte"And on popular demotivators.
It is believed that the idea to use in comedies the recorded sunbeam belongs to the sound engineer of the CBS television company Charlie Douglas, who began to do this in 1953. But the recorded laughter has been used as the artistic method since 1950, when the television series "came out"Show Hank McCun". Douglas, however, improved this method. He is first I tried it The recorded laughter as a “sweetener” (Sweetener) for the show, which were recorded with a living audience.
Douglas noted that many viewers laugh either loud enough, or, conversely, too loudly, others do it out of place or cannot calm down after a particularly successful joke. Therefore, he put a record directly for the audience in the studio, and the audience involuntarily adjusted to the recorded laughter. Douglas designed a special “Laughter Machine” - a device on which it was necessary to press the keys that launch one or another type of laughter: restrained, general, with prevailing male or female laughter.
By the second half of the 1950s, the recorded laughter of the audience was used in most sitcomes and comedic shows.
Douglas created an extensive base of sounds, basically he took fragments from "Show Red Skeleton", Which was recorded with the participation of a living audience.
And in fact, until the 1980s, the audience heard the laughter of the same people who once watched the classic comedic shows. This is what made aphorism about the laughter of long -dead people. Often it bring As a standard joke of American television workers: "Mostly dead are laughing at modern sitcoms." But the most famous wording is borrowed from the novel Chuck Palanika "Lullaby”(2002):“ The muffled rumble of dialogue passes even through the walls, then - an explosion of laughter. Then - again the dialogue. Most tracks with a laugh on television were recorded in the early fifties. That is, almost all the people whose laughter you hear are now dead. ”
But this statement does not apply to modern series. For them, a new laughter is most often recorded or the series are removed right in front of a living audience. In the film dedicated to the filming of the series "Friends", in detail tellsHow to do it. The scenery are mounted right in front of the auditorium, a special person starts the audience, and then the audience laugh at what is happening on the stage. In turn, the scriptwriters helps to understand what jokes are especially successful. However, in some cases, laughter even interferes - for example, in this scene he sometimes drowns out the remarks of the heroes:
From television works of recent times, it is worth highlighting "Wanda / Vizhn", The series included in the expanded Universe of Marvel. His first episodes, stylized as classic sitcoms with a ordered laugh, were shot with a living audience.
Thus, the assertion that long -dead people laugh behind the scenes, just for old series. Now laughter is often recorded again, and laughing people are our contemporaries.
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