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This was one of the better remotes I've seen in a while. Letting Conan play with gee-whiz technology is a proven formula, and the fact that the person showing him the car was an attractive woman added the dynamic of Conan overcompensating for his masculine insecurity (e.g., the flexing-while-revving-the-engine part).
Anyway, I thought I'd break this newsgroup's radio silence to point out something odd I noticed in the closed captions for this segment. Apparently, a few seconds of footage were cut from the segment after it had been captioned but before it aired, yet the captions were left in, so some "bonus" captions aired despite the lack of video to match up with them.
Here are the extra captions, which come about 2 1/2 minutes into the segment, after Amy shows Conan the touchscreen and Conan asks whether cars are getting too "smart":
Amy: You don't want to take too much control away from the driver.
Conan: Right.
Amy: The driver needs to be in control. But you want to help the driver.
Conan: Actually, there are drivers, like my father, for example -- the car should take over for my father. We just keep pulling mailboxes out of the grill. And once, a mailman.
Amy: That's not good.
Conan: He's going to be fine. I mean, when he wakes up.
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Drew <dre...@verizonSPAMBEGONE.net> wrote: > Anyway, I thought I'd break this newsgroup's radio silence to point out > something odd I noticed in the closed captions for this segment. > Apparently, a few seconds of footage were cut from the segment after it had > been captioned but before it aired, yet the captions were left in, so some > "bonus" captions aired despite the lack of video to match up with them.
Assuming they're still captioning "The Tonight Show" the same way they were back when I was involved with it in 1999 (and I don't see why they wouldn't be), a caption file is prepared in advance from an audio feed of the taping, and then someone is sending out that caption file live as the show airs. A producer is supposed to call the captioners between tape and air to say if anything was edited out, but that may not have happened in this case (wonder if it's an issue with Conan's staff still not having the procedure down 100% -- they used to have about 6 hours to call with the cuts in the "Late Night," but now that's down to about 2).
It's possible to "skip over" lines in the caption file as it's being sent out, as well as doing quick emergency edits. However, it's also possible that the person sending out the file "zoned out" and just kept sending. Unfortunately, I don't have my recording anymore, or I might be able to tell the story based on the speed at which the captions were scrolling -- there would probably be a noticeable pause if there was an actual "oh, shit" moment.
-- Jim Ellwanger <use...@ellwanger.tv> <http://www.ellwanger.tv> welcomes you daily. "The days turn into nights; at night, you hear the trains."
On Nov 1, 11:14 am, Drew <dre...@verizonSPAMBEGONE.net> wrote:
> This was one of the better remotes I've seen in a while. Letting Conan play > with gee-whiz technology is a proven formula, and the fact that the person > showing him the car was an attractive woman added the dynamic of Conan > overcompensating for his masculine insecurity (e.g., the > flexing-while-revving-the-engine part).
Too much of a blatant Ford Ad for me, this and the electric Focus Leno uses for races. When Fox News local on UHF does a Wal-Mart puff piece, I'm not surprised. At least Conan is spending production money and doing bits, Letterman is coasting in the studio.
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