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Halls of Mirrors and Mirror Mazes in Movies
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These are movies with scenes that show multiple reflections. Many have scenes in carnival attractions in a room with lots of mirrors called a Hall of Mirrors, a House of Mirrors, a Mirror Maze, or a Mirror Labyrinth, but some just have scenes with two or more mirrors or other reflective surfaces that create multiple reflections. A chase scene in a mirror maze has become a cliché in horror movies and thrillers, but directors seem to love them.
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Weird, Dark, 1930s Movies
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Face-Change Surgery in Movies
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In movies you can easily have plastic surgery on your face to completely change your identity.
These are movies with facial surgery or permanent masks used to change someone's identity.
In movies you can easily have plastic surgery on your face to completely change your identity.
These are movies with facial surgery or permanent masks used to change someone's identity.
People Inside Carcasses and Corpses in Movies
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Movies in which someone climbs into a large animal carcass or a human corpse for shelter or to hide.
Fictional Drugs in Movies
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Pacific Treefrog Calling Sounds Used Incorrectly In Movies
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Every kind of frog and toad makes its own unique calling sound during its breeding season. The sound made by the Pacific Treefrog, which can only be heard in western North America, has been used as the background frog calling sound for night scenes or scenes near water since sound was first added to movies, in movies set all around the world.
We also frequently hear the sound of the Pacific Treefrog when we see another kind of frog on screen that should be making a completely different sound.
(You can hear a small chorus of Pacific Treefrogs here: http://www.californiaherps.com/sounds/ptfrogsimdb.mp3)
Most sounds in movies are recorded then added to the movie soundtrack. Pacific Treefrogs are the frogs most often heard at night in southern California where most movies used to be made, so when Hollywood sound recordists went outside the studios at night to record nocturnal sounds to add to movies, they often recorded the calls of Pacific Treefrogs. Those sounds were added later to the soundtracks of many films. Pacific Treefrog sounds also ended up in pre-recorded sound effects tapes, LPs, and CDs used by film sound designers when they needed nighttime background frog sounds.
Pacific Treefrog sounds became what filmmakers and audiences expected to hear outdoors at night when they watched a movie. Since most film sound design is concerned with what the audience expects to hear, not with what they would actually hear at a location in a movie, and since the precedent was already set, the mistake was repeated throughout the 20th century and into the 21st century. If the audience heard the sounds of the frogs that really called in a location outside of the West, they would be confused. Nevertheless, hearing Pacific Treefrog sounds in a movie that is set anywhere outside of the western part of North America is a mistake.
We also frequently hear the sound of the Pacific Treefrog when we see another kind of frog on screen that should be making a completely different sound.
(You can hear a small chorus of Pacific Treefrogs here: http://www.californiaherps.com/sounds/ptfrogsimdb.mp3)
Most sounds in movies are recorded then added to the movie soundtrack. Pacific Treefrogs are the frogs most often heard at night in southern California where most movies used to be made, so when Hollywood sound recordists went outside the studios at night to record nocturnal sounds to add to movies, they often recorded the calls of Pacific Treefrogs. Those sounds were added later to the soundtracks of many films. Pacific Treefrog sounds also ended up in pre-recorded sound effects tapes, LPs, and CDs used by film sound designers when they needed nighttime background frog sounds.
Pacific Treefrog sounds became what filmmakers and audiences expected to hear outdoors at night when they watched a movie. Since most film sound design is concerned with what the audience expects to hear, not with what they would actually hear at a location in a movie, and since the precedent was already set, the mistake was repeated throughout the 20th century and into the 21st century. If the audience heard the sounds of the frogs that really called in a location outside of the West, they would be confused. Nevertheless, hearing Pacific Treefrog sounds in a movie that is set anywhere outside of the western part of North America is a mistake.
Bald-Headed Women In Movies
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... and TV. Women with shaved heads, buzz cuts, skinheads, suede heads, even bald wigs are OK here, but none of those manic pixie dream girl haircuts. They should have a list of their own.
... and TV. Women with shaved heads, buzz cuts, skinheads, suede heads, even bald wigs are OK here, but none of those manic pixie dream girl haircuts. They should have a list of their own.
Characters With Missing Arms
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These are movies with a character who has lost one or two of their arms.
These are movies with a character who has lost one or two of their arms.
Sound Recording in Movies
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These are examples of movies that show sound recording and playback on any kind of recorder and medium - cylinder recorders, disc recorders, wire recorders, digital recorders, magnetic tape reel-to-reels, cassettes, telephone answering machines, voice mail recordings, office memo recorders, surveillance recording systems, smart phones and smart watches, if they are important to the plot.
Music studio recording sessions are not included here because that would be a very long list on its own, nor do examples of someone playing back pre-recorded sound that we did not see them record.
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Music studio recording sessions are not included here because that would be a very long list on its own, nor do examples of someone playing back pre-recorded sound that we did not see them record.
Warning - comments may include spoilers.
Snakes Used as a Weapon in Movies
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In these films, snakes or their venom are intentionally used as weapons to guard a space or to attack, punish, threaten, or kill someone, including when they are used as a weapon against oneself in suicide.
In these films, snakes or their venom are intentionally used as weapons to guard a space or to attack, punish, threaten, or kill someone, including when they are used as a weapon against oneself in suicide.
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