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Date: Mon, 16 Jan 2006 09:24:10 -0600
Subject: Re: [Puptcrit] another note on TV and lip sync


When I first started out, Ollie's lip synch drove me crazy.  But as I have progressed in this Art (and most of what I do involves lip synch), I have really come to appreciate Burr Tillstrom's genius.  After watching KFO videos and also clips on Mark's great site (can't plug the Unofficial KFO site enough; it is terrific!!), the whole lip synch issue falls away.    I guess in anyone else using a moving mouth the issue would remain, but for the Kuklapolitans, it is the voice and the emotion behind these deeply drawn characters that carries them and their story along.

Wayne Krefting

----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Mark M<mailto:marknyc-AT-hotmail.com> 
  To: puptcrit-AT-lists.driftline.org<mailto:puptcrit-AT-lists.driftline.org> 
  Sent: Monday, January 16, 2006 12:00 AM
  Subject: Re: [Puptcrit] another note on TV and lip sync


  Steve wrote:

  It is my "current" understanding that in those early days of
  TV  ( which incorporated some of my early days) the sound
  track and the picture track were not necessarily in sync all
  the time anyway, which would have made it nigh unto
  impossible to achieve "viewer noticable" lip sync

  _______________________________________________________

  Actually, I don't think this is the case.  Video and audio were both going 
  out live, so it would be hard for them to get out of sync.  And in all the 
  kinescopes of KFO I've seen (close to 100) the sync is fine, as judged by 
  Fran's lips.

  I just think it was Burr's idiosyncratic way of puppeteering.  It really 
  bothers a friend of mine; I just ignore it.  Who knows, maybe dragons don't 
  believe in lip sync!

  Mark Milano


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