The Right Sound But The Wrong Picture Aka Right Sound On Wrong Picture (1932)
Clips from Pathe stories are shown with the wrong soundtrack. Full titles read: The right sound but the wrong picture. Editor s Note. In preparing pictures for the screen, mistakes occasionally occur in the privacy of the projection room, which are sometimes startling (and amusing). For instance, on the opening of Uncle Sam s Congress, the sound was right, but the picture was wrong or was it On the soundtrack we hear a man introducing the opening of the 64th Congress of the United States of America, while the visuals show hundreds of horses in a corral. Intertitle reads: Sorry, that wasn t quite right, but lets have Judge Lindsay on the Double Morality Standard and please don t get the sound on backward M, S of Judge Lindsay sitting at a desk, making a speech. The soundtrack is (intentionally) running backwards. We then see the sequence again, with the sound running correctly. Next we see at tracking shot moving along a line of girls in a Miss America beauty contest while the soundt
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