And who can forget the Master’s kerfuffle when cbs surruptitously piped in inappropriate bird sounds that they thought would be aesthetically pleasing during their coverage?
https://nypost.com/2001/04/08/no-more-chirp-tricks-cbs-has-birds-live-in-concert-at-masters/
Josh
> On January 18, 2019 at 2:44 PM Kent McFarland <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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> I actually did a whole thread on this on Twitter some time ago. Check it
> out and see the clip too.
> https://twitter.com/KPMcFarland/status/1082374025354113024
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> On Fri, Jan 18, 2019 at 2:41 PM Teage O'Connor <[log in to unmask]>
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> > My sister's a director and I was always gripe that the bird sounds in
> > movies rarely have any correlation to the birds that might occur on screen,
> > the time of year, or even geographic location. Has any director even heard
> > a bald eagle make a noise? I always offer my consulting services to her
> > director friends. Alas, no one's taken me up on the offer.
> >
> > Teage O'Connor
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> > On Fri, 18 Jan 2019 at 08:26, Ted Levin <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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> > > FYI: For those of you who subscribe to Amazon Prime, there is a very
> > funny,
> > > very Jewish comedy *The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel* about an aspiring female
> > > comedian in the mid- to late-fifties. The show takes place mostly on the
> > > Upper West of Manhattan, with jaunts into coffee houses in the Village
> > and
> > > up to resorts in the Catskills.
> > >
> > > The point of this email is that during several episodes in the second
> > year
> > > (2018) the family spends the summer at Steiner's in the Borscht Belt, one
> > > of many Jewish resorts in the Catskills that were popular in the 40s,
> > 50s,
> > > 60s, and 70s. In one episode, for a mere 15 seconds, there is a clip of a
> > > bird walk; the leader stops everyone, shooshes them, and then points out
> > a
> > > singing Bicknell's thrush, which is *not* singing a thrush song. Of
> > course,
> > > in 1959 there were no Bicknell thrushes; they were all considered
> > > gray-cheeks until Chris Rimmer and company separated them out, forty plus
> > > years later.
> > >
> > > Ted
> > >
> >
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