i notice that first guy is toootally talkin' on a carrotphone..

boop booby dooby doop

>> ^rougy:

Funny you should ask....
Betty Boop was modeled on (ripped off from) the actress Helen Kane.
At one point, Helen sued the studio for stealing from her, but by the time she did it, her fame had dwindled and the fame of the cartoon character had soared.
She lost the lawsuit.


-Mae Questel also did the voices for Betty Boop and Olive Oyl-from the looks at dates, they switched off regularly-Helen Kane was a popular singer in the 20s who did a handful of films, her popularity began as a vocalist-

Funny you should ask....

Betty Boop was modeled on (ripped off from) the actress Helen Kane.

At one point, Helen sued the studio for stealing from her, but by the time she did it, her fame had dwindled and the fame of the cartoon character had soared.

She lost the lawsuit.

>> ^rebuilder:
I have to say, I wonder where the PC beeper / tandy examples came from. Of all these I actually kind of prefer those versions, but I also think it sounds way better in this video than it ever did from my beeper back in the day... Where's all that bass coming from, for one?


He probably just recorded the signal directly using an emulator like DOSBox. Some PCs had some pretty decent speakers but most used a tiny piezo.
The PC can generate a square wave anywhere between 18.2Hz and way into the ultrasound range, if the physical loudspeaker can play it is another question.

Speaking of PC sounds, I remember the first time I played Pinball Fantasies on a PC without a sound card... I couldn't believe my ears! Back in those days all you got from the speaker was some "beeps" and "boops" but using PWM and a lot of wizardry the guys at Digital Illusions made it sound like a proper sound card and were playing MODs on it straight from the Amiga version.

*boop*

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Wait 'til they get a load of me. Boop. Boop. Boop.

Wow! Look at that! It went "beep, beep, boop, beep", and then the screen went all flashy-like! Cool!

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I love speedruns for their sheer subversion of anything majestic that gaming can evoke.

Click-click-boop.

You ruuuuule the greatest emmmmpire in the galaxyyyyy...

This is very similar to what I mentioned here... Only I remember it being more boops and bleeps, but that may have just been disc 1.

More info on the CDs.



>> ^dag:
What causes all the radio signals from gas giants?


Due to the immense pressure of gravity, atoms bounce around and knock into each other and cause bursts of energy to be released in the form of photons. The energy in question can lie anywhere along the spectroscopic band depending on the frequency in which the wave is generated; visible light, gamma, microwave, radio, etc. In this case, it's radio.


How are they translated from radio into sound? Is it kind of an arbitrary sampling where they pick a range?


I'm going to assume that if you take the energy wave or "signature" and transpose it higher up on the band, to the realm of audible sound (by pushing that wave through a medium of air, rather than radio waves through the vacuum of space), you get the sound. The CD's I have really don't give an adequate explanation as to how they create the sound, but I have to assume it's the same principle which powers radio on Earth; the energy wave is broadcast out, and receivers/speakers translate the signal to a different medium.

boop boop boop ._.

Here's a page with some interesting background about Betty Boop. The woman who Betty was based on, and the woman who did her original voice, looked very much like the Betty Boop character.

Much better! No but really, it is. I left a comment on your video on why colorized cartoons in particular are crappy.

In reply to this comment by swampgirl:
black and white: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QUp_yg_-QG8

In reply to this comment by Sarzy:
Big thumbs up to classic Fleischer animation. Big thumbs down to colorization.