Subject: Re: The "backwards" speech & other effects From: geiser@heron.cis.ohio-state.edu (paul d geiser) Date: 1990-04-27, 10:53 Newsgroups: alt.tv.twin-peaks Reply-to: Dan Geiser In article <9280002@hp-ptp.HP.COM> you write: > > > > My theory for the "backwards" speech is the actors spoke their lines > > backwards pronouncing the sound of each word backwards. Then when > > editing, they reversed it. You got the sound of backwards speech but > > could understand what they said. > > > > just a theory, > > > > John C. I agree very much with John C.'s theory with a minor difference. And I have read about instances of people doing this before. The actors speak their lines like normal. Then these lines are played backwards and the actors listen to them trying to discern patterns and then they speak these phonetic patterns and they are recorded. Finally these patterns are reversed giving a backwards sounding effect but the sounds sound like words so we recognize them. I think David Lynch would opt for this more brute force method rather than using a digitizer of any sort. Dan -=- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "Of course, I'm a, I'm an excellent Caped Crusader..." - Bat-Rain-Man Dan Geiser