Hall: Wizard Of Oz Never Mumbled

A person watching a movie set in the future would ordinarily expect state-of-the-art sound, most especially including dialogue that is crisp and clear and easy for the audience to understand. Such a movie was pretty much perfected half a century ago. To this day, if you watch a video of “The Wizard of Oz,” every word of every character is as easy to understand as any other sound, song, laugh or witch burp. Not only can you follow every word but you can follow whole sentences uttered by each and every character. The clarity of that movie’s sound lets you follow the yellow brick road to understanding what is happening inside that film in word and song. That movie was made in 1939, two years after I was born and I’m older than a wicked witch. The same degree of easy listening did not apply the other night to what might have been a better-than-average flick were it not for mumbled dialogue/ Bill Hall , Lewiston Tribune. More here.