On Tue, Jun 10, 2014 at 10:50 AM, Karen Owen <[email protected]> wrote:
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>
> As a viewer I'm having trouble with everything being too dark
> to see clearly (yes I understand they didn't have electric lights
> in 1776 but other historically set movies and TV shows manage
> to make the lighting workable for clear viewing).
I used to watch all the PBS reality shows set in period times ("Colonial
House," "Frontier House," etc) and one of them, "1900s House" had a
behind-the-scenes prequel showing how everything in the house worked or was
made to work as it did in those times. The gas lanterns were probably the
most interesting because until they started using them, historians had no
idea how little light they actually produced, or how much smoke and
blackness they sent sailing into the air. For dramatic purposes, a lot of
TV and movies set in olden times include scenes at night, but it would seem
about all we could do before the electric light bulb was go home and sleep
when the sun went down.
> Also the accents
> are all over the place from modern American to Canadian to
> standard British TV to Irish to Scottish so it's hard to understand
> all the dialogue even with captioning on.
>
Reminds me of the old Richard Jeni joke about why all the Romans spoke with
English accents in the gladiator movies.
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