Need a Really Technical Description?
#1
Need a Really Technical Description?
Before watching the video clip, read the background below .
Several years ago, Rockwell International decided to get into the heavy duty
transmission business.
They were getting ready to tape their first introductory video. As a warm
up, the professional narrator began what has become a legend within the
training industry.
This man should have won an academy award for his stellar performance.
Now remember this is strictly off the cuff, nothing is written down.
I think you will enjoy this once in a lifetime performance from this
gentleman.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oIS5n9Oyzsc
Several years ago, Rockwell International decided to get into the heavy duty
transmission business.
They were getting ready to tape their first introductory video. As a warm
up, the professional narrator began what has become a legend within the
training industry.
This man should have won an academy award for his stellar performance.
Now remember this is strictly off the cuff, nothing is written down.
I think you will enjoy this once in a lifetime performance from this
gentleman.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oIS5n9Oyzsc
#2
Holy cr@p! I just burst out laughing while watching it on my tiny phone screen at work (streaming is blocked by the network).
That guy is brilliant. Effing hysterical!
I just wonder whether it was all off the cuff, or whether he wrote it down first...
- Eric
That guy is brilliant. Effing hysterical!
I just wonder whether it was all off the cuff, or whether he wrote it down first...
- Eric
#3
If it was me, it could have been written down, and I still wouldn't be able to read it.
#4
Ha! I didn't know of the version in the original post...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ac7G7xOG2Ag
I always thought this was the original...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MXW0bx_Ooq4
Rockwell copied it years later ....
Ah yes....pre-famulated amulite...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ac7G7xOG2Ag
This is the first time Turbo Encabulator was recorded with picture. I shot this in the late 70's at Regan Studios in Detroit on 16mm film. The narrator and writer is Bud Haggert. He was the top voice-over talent on technical films. He wrote the script because he rarely understood the technical copy he was asked to read and felt he shouldn't be alone. We had just finished a production for GMC Trucks and Bud asked since this was the perfect setting could we film his Turbo Encabulator script. He was using an audio prompter referred to as "the ear". He was actually the pioneer of the ear. He was to deliver a live speech without a prompter. After struggling in his hotel room trying to commit to memory he went to plan B. He recorded it to a large Wollensak reel to reel recorder and placed it in the bottom of the podium. With a wired earplug he used it for the speech and the "ear" was invented. Today every on-camera spokesperson uses a variation of Bud's innovation. Dave Rondot (me) was the director and John Choate was the DP on this production. The first laugh at the end is mine. My hat's off to Bud a true talent.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MXW0bx_Ooq4
Rockwell copied it years later ....
Ah yes....pre-famulated amulite...
#5
I remember seeing the 1st 1 years ago. Thinking it was real, I'm going wth? Looking at some of the later ones, it's cool how he still used some of the original terms i.e. "sperm bearings and dinglearm". Think of Leslie Neilsen using that techno-babble and what could have been.
#6
I remember seeing the 1st 1 years ago. Thinking it was real, I'm going wth? Looking at some of the later ones, it's cool how he still used some of the original terms i.e. "sperm bearings and dinglearm". Think of Leslie Neilsen using that techno-babble and what could have been.
That skit would have been perfect for Leslie Neilsen.
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