Is that a new cat playing Hilda?

Vicky <vicky.ayech@gmail.com> wrote:
> Is that a new cat playing Hilda?
>

Having worked with sound FX for many many years, I tend to recognise many
tracks when used in programmes I hear or see. It’s quite surprising how the
bells of Merton College move around the country in various scenes! I hired
equipment to Auntie back in the late 80’s when portable digital recording
equipment was just becoming affordable and more freely available. Aunty had
quite a few systems but they were all bolted down in studios with very few
truly portable battery powered systems available for engineers on location.
Auntie hired a Sony PCMF1 system from me along with a Binaural microphone
kit that I had assembled having made careful notes of the design when
working with a Beeb owned Binaural kit some time before. (I was recording a
series of historical dramas for broadcast and publication to schools and as
most of the recordings were being made on-location, I was using a Nagra
recorder and Binaural mic kit belonging to Auntie). If you ever hear any of
the baby sounds in plays etc. the chances are they are from recordings made
with my kit that the Beeb hired. There were many other tracks as well of
course but this was the very first fully digitally recorded and edited FX
CD that the Beeb produced and I was given a pre-release copy of it too.

Just thought you might be interested to know that, Michael Cane probably
doesn’t.

--
Toodle Pip, Mike McMillan

In message <uoefru$38ome$1@dont-email.me> at Fri, 19 Jan 2024 18:43:10,
Mike McMillan <toodle.pip1@virginmedia.com> writes
>Vicky <vicky.ayech@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Is that a new cat playing Hilda?
>>
>
>Having worked with sound FX for many many years, I tend to recognise many
>tracks when used in programmes I hear or see. It’s quite surprising how the
[]
>Just thought you might be interested to know that, Michael Cane probably
>doesn’t.
>
(That's not how he spells it. [Not his real name anyway - I forget what
is.])

There's a famous scream that crops up in the film, TV (and I think
radio) worlds, known by name. Maybe baby sounds can become the McMillan
gurgle or whatever!
--
J. P. Gilliver. UMRA: 1960/<1985 MB++G()AL-IS-Ch++(p)Ar@T+H+Sh0!:`)DNAf

.... the greatest musical festival in the world that doesn't involve mud.
- Eddie Mair, RT 2014/8/16-22

"J. P. Gilliver" <G6JPG@255soft.uk> writes:

> In message <uoefru$38ome$1@dont-email.me> at Fri, 19 Jan 2024
> 18:43:10, Mike McMillan <toodle.pip1@virginmedia.com> writes
>>Vicky <vicky.ayech@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> Is that a new cat playing Hilda?
>>>
>>
>>Having worked with sound FX for many many years, I tend to recognise many
>>tracks when used in programmes I hear or see. It’s quite surprising how the
> []
>>Just thought you might be interested to know that, Michael Cane probably
>>doesn’t.
>>
> (That's not how he spells it. [Not his real name anyway - I forget
> what is.])

Maurice Micklewright. Fine actor, but I have little time for him otherwise.

Rosie

On 19.1.24 18:43, Mike McMillan wrote:
> Vicky <vicky.ayech@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Is that a new cat playing Hilda?
>>
>
> Having worked with sound FX for many many years, I tend to recognise many
> tracks when used in programmes I hear or see. It’s quite surprising how the
> bells of Merton College move around the country in various scenes! I hired
> equipment to Auntie back in the late 80’s when portable digital recording
> equipment was just becoming affordable and more freely available. Aunty had
> quite a few systems but they were all bolted down in studios with very few
> truly portable battery powered systems available for engineers on location.
> Auntie hired a Sony PCMF1 system from me along with a Binaural microphone
> kit that I had assembled having made careful notes of the design when
> working with a Beeb owned Binaural kit some time before. (I was recording a
> series of historical dramas for broadcast and publication to schools and as
> most of the recordings were being made on-location, I was using a Nagra
> recorder and Binaural mic kit belonging to Auntie). If you ever hear any of
> the baby sounds in plays etc. the chances are they are from recordings made
> with my kit that the Beeb hired. There were many other tracks as well of
> course but this was the very first fully digitally recorded and edited FX
> CD that the Beeb produced and I was given a pre-release copy of it too.
>
> Just thought you might be interested to know that, Michael Cane probably
> doesn’t.
>

Wow Knickers showing.

--
Kosmo Richard W
www.travelswmw.whitnet.uk
https://tinyurl.com/KRWpics

J. P. Gilliver <G6JPG@255soft.uk> wrote:
> In message <uoefru$38ome$1@dont-email.me> at Fri, 19 Jan 2024 18:43:10,
> Mike McMillan <toodle.pip1@virginmedia.com> writes
>> Vicky <vicky.ayech@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> Is that a new cat playing Hilda?
>>>
>>
>> Having worked with sound FX for many many years, I tend to recognise many
>> tracks when used in programmes I hear or see. It’s quite surprising how the
> []
>> Just thought you might be interested to know that, Michael Cane probably
>> doesn’t.
>>
> (That's not how he spells it. [Not his real name anyway - I forget what
> is.])
>
> There's a famous scream that crops up in the film, TV (and I think
> radio) worlds, known by name. Maybe baby sounds can become the McMillan
> gurgle or whatever!

As long as I am not expected to change its’ nappy every time!

--
Toodle Pip, Mike McMillan

In message <uog40k$3k8qh$1@dont-email.me> at Sat, 20 Jan 2024 09:33:08,
Mike McMillan <toodle.pip1@virginmedia.com> writes
>J. P. Gilliver <G6JPG@255soft.uk> wrote:
[]
>> There's a famous scream that crops up in the film, TV (and I think
>> radio) worlds, known by name. Maybe baby sounds can become the McMillan
>> gurgle or whatever!
>
>As long as I am not expected to change its’ nappy every time!
>
Thought I'd look up the scream - not easy, as there's a series of films
and the Munch painting. But I found it:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilhelm_scream
It's rather a fun read, if you're into films and the like.

The McMillan babynoises might not have such a wide reach (-:
--
J. P. Gilliver. UMRA: 1960/<1985 MB++G()AL-IS-Ch++(p)Ar@T+H+Sh0!:`)DNAf

By the very definition of "news," we hear very little about the dominant
threats to our lives, and the most about the rarest, including terror.
"LibertyMcG" alias Brian P. McGlinchey, 2013-7-23

Vicky <vicky.ayech@gmail.com> wrote:
> Is that a new cat playing Hilda?

I read somewhere that Hilda is played by Elgar from Ed Reardon’s Week, but
that can’t be right as Elgar has shuffled off his mortal coil.

On Sun, 21 Jan 2024 11:15:42 -0000 (UTC), Wenlock
<wenlock.house@googlemail.com> wrote:

>Vicky <vicky.ayech@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Is that a new cat playing Hilda?
>
>I read somewhere that Hilda is played by Elgar from Ed Reardon’s Week, but
>that can’t be right as Elgar has shuffled off his mortal coil.

We should get them to audition Harryet Pottercat, except that she's 16
and an old lady with arthritis, like me. She won the tontine of the 4
animals, 2 cats and 2 dogs, we brought from Spain.

She loved Bobby, the 3rd to go, and when he went transferred to B. She
sits on his lap a lot and is very picky about food. If she wants food,
door opened, needs the litter tray cleared as she's just used it or
just wants him to come downstairs so she can sit on him here she
screams non-stop. She is there in the dictionary under caterwauling.
It is not possible to ignore it. She comes and sits near and stares
and screams.

On Sun, 21 Jan 2024 11:15:42 -0000 (UTC), Wenlock
<wenlock.house@googlemail.com> wrote:

>Vicky <vicky.ayech@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Is that a new cat playing Hilda?
>
>I read somewhere that Hilda is played by Elgar from Ed Reardon’s Week, but
>that can’t be right as Elgar has shuffled off his mortal coil.

Might it be of interest to umra to note that as well as an episode of
Tenko, Ed Reardon also wrote "An Englishman Abroad" about the Bodyline
Cricket Tour and I thought it was really quite good. He wrote it under
his nom de plume, of course.

Nick

On Sun, 21 Jan 2024 11:15:42 -0000 (UTC), Wenlock
<wenlock.house@googlemail.com> scrawled in the dust...

>Vicky <vicky.ayech@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Is that a new cat playing Hilda?
>
>I read somewhere that Hilda is played by Elgar from Ed Reardon’s Week, but
>that can’t be right as Elgar has shuffled off his mortal coil.

Oh, I'd assumed he'd been written out, having had a better offer from TA...
--
Penny
Annoyed by The Archers since 1959

In message <uoiucu$5g5n$1@dont-email.me> at Sun, 21 Jan 2024 11:15:42,
Wenlock <wenlock.house@googlemail.com> writes
>Vicky <vicky.ayech@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Is that a new cat playing Hilda?
>
>I read somewhere that Hilda is played by Elgar from Ed Reardon’s Week, but
>that can’t be right as Elgar has shuffled off his mortal coil.
>
I presume in reality, all Ambridge cats are from BBC Cat Sounds XXV - or
have people really noticed a change? (Maybe now using XXVI?) Mike?
--
J. P. Gilliver. UMRA: 1960/<1985 MB++G()AL-IS-Ch++(p)Ar@T+H+Sh0!:`)DNAf

"This situation absolutely requires a really futile and stoopid gesture be done
on somebody's part." "We're just the guys to do it." Eric "Otter" Stratton (Tim
Matheson) and John "Bluto" Blutarsky (John Belushi) - N. L's Animal House
(1978)

Wenlock <wenlock.house@googlemail.com> wrote:
> Vicky <vicky.ayech@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Is that a new cat playing Hilda?
>
> I read somewhere that Hilda is played by Elgar from Ed Reardon’s Week, but
> that can’t be right as Elgar has shuffled off his mortal coil.
>
>

Goodness, no! Definitely two different cats! At least Elgar had more than
one way of miaow-speak!

Mrs McT