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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
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MONDAY, APRIL 2, 1951
Sound Effects Are Entering A New Phase In Radio Field
Hollywood (U.P.)—There is a move afoot to throw out those phony sound effects on radio and boom real ones out of your loudspeaker—but it isn't moving very fast.
An the reason, according to actor Jack Webb, is the network big shots. They seem to think there's something a little wrong with anybody who asks for real rain when the script calls for a downpour.
"Everything else in radio has grown up. It's time the sound effects did, too. It's not the technicians' fault. They're all great. It's just cheaper to use those tired, old hand-made noises—so the stations won't change."
Webb startled everybody when he and actor Barton Yarborough previewed their "Dragnet" show. It's a documentary of how Los Angeles policemen solve crimes and the sound effects are so real you can even hear their Sam Brown belts squeak.
waves, he goes down to the beach and splashes out in the water with his portable recorder.
Everybody else just rolls dried peas around in a screen and boom ocean breakers!
When Webb needs rain, he finds a place where it's raining and makes a recording of same. When he wants
Radio brass thinks Webb's making a big fuss over everything.
Radio critics think it makes "Dragnet" the greatest shot-in-the-arm for radio since Jack Benny first found out what a mike was for
When Webb's two policemen dasl
into a burning building you can be doggone sure there's nobody standing there crackling cellophane in a sock. Those flames you hear are the real thing. Webb took in the U.C.-L.A. bonfire rally last year.
When he chases a crook into an amusement park, the background noise may remind you of the Venice Boardwalk. Webb hopes it will—because it is.
and record just what we'll need"
he says. "We've got two of the greatest men in the business, Brad Tollifson and Wayne Keworthy."
"They've recorded fishing trips on a police boat, street fights, gun shots, golf tournaments, explosions, footsteps, everything. And they make it sound real."
"Dragett" has been going strong for two years now and its copping prizes almost as fast as it rounds up crooks.
University Locksmith Must Be A Skilled Technician
Verle Jones has been University locksmith for several years, and has been called upon to unlock numerous desks and doors for absent-minded professors.
There are thousands of locks at the University and it takes a highly skilled technician to service them.
"It is practically impossible to estimate the number of locks in all of the buildings on the campus." C. G. Bayles, buildings and grounds superintendent said. "There are 42 outside locks on Strong hall alone," he recalled.
It is not an easy job to get a key made, however. Before a key is made, a written permit from the chairman of the department requesting the key must be presented.
The locksmith department occupies one small corner on the second floor of the buildings and grounds building. From this small shop thousands of keys have been issued.
Even if a student accidently acquired a key, it wouldn't do him much good. The locks on the campus are changed often enough to make lost keys useless.
The state architect does not standardize locks and consequently it makes the work of the locksmith more complicated. The locksmith, other than his duties of repairing locks and making keys, must maintain the push bars on many of the doors in the buildings on the campus.
At the end of the school year vari-
ount departments turn their locks
over to the locksmith. Locks left
by students and locks for which
keys have been lost are opened by
the locksmith.
While there is the possibility of someone having a key duplicated by an independent locksmith, it probably wouldn't work. When keys are made from duplicates, they are likely to be unsuccessful, Bayles said.
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