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The television audio at one major racetrack is giving me flashbacks to the 1970s.
I feel like I’m back watching Lou Richards and the panel on World of Sport.
In those days, there were six VFL matches on a Saturday afternoon and HSV-7 lacked the resources to send multiple cameras and a commentary team to all six.
World of Sport on the Sunday morning would show highlights of the minor games shot on what looked like Super 8 film, accompanied by a canned crowd soundtrack.
At least I think it was canned. I suppose it’s possible that the same kid went around to every ground and screamed “whooooo!” at the exact same point of every highlighted piece of play.
A similar principle applied to situation comedies like Joanie Loves Chachi, where canned laughter would let the audience at home know which lines were supposed to be funny.
It’s the same at this particular city racetrack.
Has anyone else noticed that the crowd only seems to scream for the last 20 yards, and then all of a sudden, as the field crosses the line, it goes dead silent?
What do the young ’uns call this type of behaviour these days? Photoshopping?
Camberwell (Vic)