Jeez, that title sounds confusing, but I couldn’t think of any other way to phrase it at the moment.
I’m thinking of famous soundbites we all hear, then perhaps years later we find out that they actually came from video sources and it sems weird to actually see the person speaking.
Example: We all know Dr. King’s famous “I have a dream” speech. We hear it on the radio all the time, but it was not until I was 20 or so years old that I actually saw the footage of him giving the speech in D. C… The footage seemed, to my mind, to detract from the vocals. I keep looking at the fellow behind him dressed in the Nehru outfit.
It was only a few years ago that I saw footage of FDR actually saying what we’ve often heard: “Yesterday, December 7, 1941, a day that will live in infamy…”
Are there any others that we’ve heard a million times, but perhaps have never seen?
The Hindenburg footage was not directly connected; newsreel cameramen were at the site since the landing was big news, but newsreels were generally shot without sound. I have seen the newsreel footage linked with the radio broadcast, but they were not recorded together.
In a similar vein, you know Eddy Adam’s famous photo of the Vietnamese colonel executing the Viet Cong with a shot to his head? Well, there’s also video footage of the event, a fact I discovered a few years ago.
The first seven notes of “When You Wish Upon a Star” seem to be used all the time for various purposes by Disney. I certainly know that melody as being from Pinocchio, but I wouldn’t be overly surprised to find out that some much younger kids don’t know that. I guess.
Both times, right? I can’t remember if Harding’s was videotaped, but I am pretty sure it was.
Also, as an anecdote, we were all sitting around in Ap Government one day, watching some movie. It was on Civil Rights, which fit right between our 45 minute warm-up conversation and just before our daily US History themed word search. One girl, famous already for her hillarious questions (“What is a Roman ‘num-bral’, and why is it called Amendment ‘ex’?”) decided to see just how famous she was willing to get.
As Martin Luther King Jr. came on, talking about his dream, she questioned enthusiastically,
“Is that really him?!”
“What do you mean?”
“I mean, that can’t be him - they didn’t have cameras back then!”
