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November 14, 2011
Harry Houdini speaks — October 29, 1914
From Audioboo: "The great Harry Houdini speaks about his 'Water Torture Cell' — a trick that saw him escape from a water-filled box — on October 29th, 1914. The audio was recorded on an Edison wax cylinder, one of six used that day by Houdini and now the only known recordings of his voice."
[via Richard Kashdan]
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When I hear early sound recording speech like Houdini's it always makes me think of the talking picture demonstration from Singin' In the Rain
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ygin1mdgHz4&feature=related
which leaves me limp from laughter every time I see it, way out of proportion to its mildly amusing qualities.
But I gotta say, that Houdini had one hell of a built on him.
http://mimg.ugo.com/201105/9/0/4/196409/houdini01.jpg
Posted by: Flautist | Nov 14, 2011 10:56:02 PM
So they really did talk like that ;-)
Posted by: Joe Peach | Nov 14, 2011 10:25:29 PM
Those recordings are still struggling to escape.
Posted by: 6.02*10^23 | Nov 14, 2011 2:18:38 PM
The other recordings vanished???
Posted by: Eric Merle | Nov 14, 2011 1:07:17 PM
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