The Wire With a Laugh Track
YouTube user linguica took a short scene from The Wire and added a laugh track to it–mining the show, Married With Children for the recorded laughs. The result is pretty disconcerting. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WDIi0dzmvpE
A History of Videotape Editing
This informative article is not directly about sitcoms, but so many of them in the 1970s were videotaped that it seems pertinent. “Video editing pioneers didn’t have the simple pleasures we take for granted today. As you may already know,Read more…
AmericanRadioHistory.Com
Holy crap! AmericanRadioHistory.com has “two million pages of AM, FM & TV Broadcasting history online”! Tons and tons of cool PDFs of both radio and TV trade magazines. A terrific resource for radio/TV scholars. via AmericanRadioHistory.Com – Documenting the HistoryRead more…