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Mr. Travolta is recording an accident...

Discussion in 'Sightings in TV/Film/Print' started by soluna, Sep 7, 2026 at 9:06 PM.

  1. soluna

    soluna Well-Known Member

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    with his NAGRA III in the movie " Blow Out " from 1981, and after reconstructing the scene to a film sequence from a frame-per-frame-picture-story, adding the own-recorded sound, he`s able to prove an assassination attempt.

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    recording with NAGRA and a special mic

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    the NAGRA III

    https://www.nagraaudio.com/de/product/nagra-iii/

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    checking his record

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    cutting the sound

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    the picture story

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    reconstructing the picture sequence

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    his studio

    In the film there still are some other monitoring tools, for example from his previous job as a surveillance specialist ...

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    ?
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    ...and from a method to monitoring his telefon conversations :
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    The film's title alludes to Antonioni's *Blow-Up* starring David Hemmings, in which the protagonist discovers a murder by repeatedly enlarging ( called Blow Up ) a photograph taken in a park.
    In both movies the way to discover the crime is shown very nuanced, precisly accomplished.
    Movie is recommended to all, which like analog record stuff, precise jobs, and may be - John Travolta ;-)
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    Sorry for quality of the picture stuff - movie, i have, doesn`t allow higher resolution - anyway - have fun.
     
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  2. Mister X

    Mister X Moderator Staff Member

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    I love that movie and those first scenes of him taping sounds definately gave me a lust for field recorders. Brian DePalma was on a hot role, although Siskel and Ebert thought he was copying Hitchcock, I couldn't get enough of his movies. We had four - six TV channels and then 24 hours of HBO which would rotate this movie heavily, along with many more, and they pretty much got burned in my brain.
     
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