Here's a technical difficulties moment that plagued a Monstrous Movie presentation of "Dracula's Daughter" [1936] on WFLD Channel 32. Includes:
. . . innocently enough, the opening title sequence and moderately scary voiceover (by Jim Barton) introducing the film
"A Universal Picture" opening (with airplane flying around globe as used before 1936)
We are about 27 seconds into the opening titles and credits for the film when the technical staff realizes the sound is off, so the Monstrous Movie bumper is put up and the voiceover (by Jim Barton, sadly not in his menacing voice) - no doubt trying to head off the usual bunch of mobs with torches and pitchforks as seen in so many of those horror movies - does his "We are having some difficulty . . . please stand by" blurb, before about 3 seconds with sound but with galloping picture (incorrectly threaded film) leads to the Monstrous Movie bumper put back up for another minute and a half (and Barton's script repeated about a minute into the bumper on the screen) . . . until finally, the rest of the movie is shown with nary an incident, other than the regular ghoulish affairs which are present in the film.
This aired on local Chicago TV on Saturday, June 11th 1983 at 1:30pm.
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