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Rob wrote:
> While Thunderbirds are in the air (sorry<g>), I caught part of the one
> about the "Crab-logger?" last Saturday on UK's BBC2, and couldn't quite
> believe my ears when the scene of Parker using some sort of hypnotic ray
> weapon ("truth gun"?) on a "baddie" came on; I'm pretty sure that the
> sound used for the gun was a speeded-up version of the sound a UFO
> makes! (Which, chronologically, means that the UFO sound is actually a
> slowed-down version of the Thunderbirds "truth gun".)
Hi Rob,
I checked this out tonight, it's the "Path of Destruction"
episode on volume 7 of the DVDs.
Not a baddie, just a security guard who wouldn't let Lady P have
a look at the personnel records, and the gun just put him in
a trance while she nosed through the file.
It _does_ sound a bit like a high-pitched spinner, but Gerry
Anderson made a lot of use of this kind of sound effect in
Thunderbirds, and I don't think it would sound quite the same
when slowed to the same pitch.
> Unfortunately Parker didn't use it again, so that diving across the room
> to hit "instant-record" was a bit of a wasted effort, really!
> If anyone has this ep, and can capture that sound and post it to the
> SHADO files area, I'd appreciate it (then you'll be able to hear what I
> mean).
Sorry, can't capture the sound as my laptop's DVD drive doesn't
do region 2 :( I'm not sure if I have the software to do it
in any case, but maybe someone will be able to help.
By the way I picked up a paper in a coffee shop on the Strand
this morning, I think it was the Telegraph - or possibly the
Times - and there was a photo of Gerry Anderson with some toy
Thunderbird people (miniature Scott, Virgil & co). The story
was that Tracy Island is one of the most sought after Christmas
presents in the UK this year. I flipped the page, and the
next headline was "Skydiver crashes into roof at 150 mph and
survives"! I'm not making this up, honest ..
Cheers all
James
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