3 ms·
I am reminded of a particular "Olde Time Radio" episode of 'The Shadow' which involves a trial; a person of [political? judicial?] importance is accused of rece
by drdeadringer 8y ago
I am reminded of a particular "Olde Time Radio" episode of 'The Shadow' which involves a trial; a person of [political? judicial?] importance is accused of receiving or at least being approached with blackmail//bribery. Fatal evidence was reel-to-reel film video with accompanying reel-to-reel audio played in tandem ["high-tech" at the time, remember].
Lamont Cranston & Margo Lane are in the courtroom audience for plot reasons and Lamont has issue with how the voice audio [doesn't quite] sync up with the lips on the video despite potential technology sync issues.
"Believe only half of what you see," Lamont paraphrases//declares to Margo, "and nothing you hear."
I'll let folks enjoy the episode to the end and I realize that the quoted paraphrase is likely a paraphrased quote in and of itself, but many decades after both I've still remembered the phrasing.
-/-/-
I've encountered this myself personally when trying to be a personal witness to someone escaping bounty hunters through a hotel bathroom window. In trying to be A Good Citizen, literally being voluntarily in the face of a cigar-chewing dude with sunglasses, and intellectually knowing what "tricks" might be played on me [e.g. "tall, blond hair?" -- "no, short and curly black!"] I still made rookie mistakes in basic reality-telling. And this was live-and-in-person shortly after the event. "Eye witnesses are unreliable" as sometimes reported, indeed.