# What is a "Loop Group" **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [August 15, 2007, 12:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-a-loop-group/415640 "2007-08-15T00:31:25Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 14\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![ernesto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/c2a13f/32.png) [@ernesto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ernesto)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2007, 12:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-a-loop-group/415640/1 "2007-08-15T00:31:25Z")
I am reading a book by the name “Loop Group,” I’m pretty far along the book but the author has yet to explain what it really is. I know it has something to do with making movies but what? ---
**Author:** ![Miller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/miller/32/481_2.png) [@Miller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miller)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2007, 12:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-a-loop-group/415640/2 "2007-08-15T00:40:25Z")
Might be a play on “loup garou,” which is French for werewolf. ---
**Author:** ![Giles](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/giles/32/60_2.png) [@Giles](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Giles)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2007, 12:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-a-loop-group/415640/3 "2007-08-15T00:50:25Z")
Could it be [this kind of loop group](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loop_group)? Not that it has anything to do with movies or wolves. ---
**Author:** ![Thudlow\_Boink](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thudlow_boink/32/320_2.png) [@Thudlow\_Boink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thudlow_Boink)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2007, 1:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-a-loop-group/415640/4 "2007-08-15T01:04:28Z")
[QUOTE=Giles] Could it be [this kind of loop group](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loop_group)? Not that it has anything to do with movies or wolves. [/QUOTE] Heh. When I saw the thread title, I said to myself, “That sounds like something out of algebraic topology.” ---
**Author:** ![Khadaji](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Khadaji](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Khadaji)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2007, 10:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-a-loop-group/415640/5 "2007-08-15T10:44:09Z")
Perhaps you could give us more information. What is the book about so far? Is there a link in Amazon? ---
**Author:** ![mobo85](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b19c9b/32.png) [@mobo85](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mobo85)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2007, 1:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-a-loop-group/415640/6 "2007-08-15T13:31:51Z")
A “loop group” is a slang term often seen in movie credits for the advanced dialogue replacement, or ADR, team. These folks go in after the movie has been recorded and redub dialogue. (Sometimes, the dialogue is drowned out by ambient noise, etc. when the film is shot, so the actors have to go back and redo the dialogue in a studio.) The film is looped back and forth so that the new dialogue matches the previously-filmed lip movements of the actors- hence, “looping.” ---
**Author:** ![Liberal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/848f3c/32.png) [@Liberal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Liberal)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2007, 1:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-a-loop-group/415640/7 "2007-08-15T13:58:11Z")
Some technicians are a lot better at it than others. There are lots of instances in reality shows like Top Design where the judges are talking to the contestants, when suddenly there is a cut-away, the back of a judge’s head, and his/her crystal clear booming voice making some comment that the producers wanted to insert for clarity or continuity. John, your work concentrated too much on function. In the end, this was a contest about aesthetics, not function. Please pack your shit and go. ---
**Author:** ![gotpasswords](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/c57346/32.png) [@gotpasswords](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gotpasswords)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2007, 6:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-a-loop-group/415640/8 "2007-08-15T18:57:48Z")
“The Loop Group” is described as Los Angeles’ premiere loop group, (how’s that for not really explaining it?) and they’ve been doing it for the past 20 years or so. Oddly enough, they don’t seem to have a website, but since they’ve been doing [ADR](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dubbing_(filmmaking)) for so long, the people who need to know who they are already do. ---
**Author:** ![ernesto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/c2a13f/32.png) [@ernesto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ernesto)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2007, 5:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-a-loop-group/415640/9 "2007-08-17T17:57:46Z")
mobo85 had the right answer, that is definately what this novel is about. ---
**Author:** ![GuanoLad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guanolad/32/42_2.png) [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2007, 2:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-a-loop-group/415640/10 "2007-08-18T02:28:41Z")
Rhubarb banana rhubarb banana… ---
**Author:** ![Contrapuntal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e274bd/32.png) [@Contrapuntal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Contrapuntal)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2007, 2:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-a-loop-group/415640/11 "2007-08-18T02:34:27Z")
[QUOTE=Miller] Might be a play on “loup garou,” which is French for werewolf. [/QUOTE] [Loup Garou.](http://www.amazon.com/Loup-Garou-Willy-DeVille/dp/B0000256MC/ref=sr_1_2/102-3771707-1209705?ie=UTF8&s=music&qid=1187404292&sr=1-2) Great record. ---
**Author:** ![Snooooopy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ee7513/32.png) [@Snooooopy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snooooopy)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2007, 2:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-a-loop-group/415640/12 "2007-08-18T02:44:18Z")
By sheer coincidence, werewolves are among some of the best ADR teams in the biz. Their keen werewolf hearing gives them an edge. Also, they can coax moving performances out of actors by threatening to eat them. ---
**Author:** ![mobo85](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b19c9b/32.png) [@mobo85](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mobo85)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2007, 3:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-a-loop-group/415640/13 "2007-08-18T03:08:46Z")
In his book _Questions for the Movie Answer Man_, we can see it took three tries for Roger Ebert to get the correct identity of Barbara Harris, founder of the Looping Group. The reason? She’s a werewolf! Which is also the reason why the group has no website: it’s impossible for werewolves to use keyboards. ---
**Author:** ![mobo85](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b19c9b/32.png) [@mobo85](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mobo85)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2007, 3:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-a-loop-group/415640/14 "2007-08-18T03:28:27Z")
My mistake- the Looping Group does [indeed](http://www.theloopinggroup.com/main.html) have a website. However, if you look at Ms. Harris’s [IMDb listing](http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0364456/), you will she that she is indeed the queen of ADR, so her lycantropic qualities are obvious ipso facto her skills.