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We watched "Late Night with the Devil" (2023) tonight. I posted a #5SecondMovieReview of it earlier. We enjoyed it.

However... one little thing about it is nagging at me, like a splinter in the mind's eye.

It's a period piece, set in the #1970s. The major thread of the story includes a psychologist and her sessions with a patient, which are #recorded. Part of one is played back as part of a #television show, and onscreen during that #playback is an open-reel (aka reel-to-reel) #tape #deck playing a tape.

1970s, open-reel recording - it's #retro, it's #cool, it's period-authentic, right?

I can't shake the feeling that whoever put the visual together has never actually seen an open-reel tape recorder in operation. This picture is lousy, because it's a screencap from the movie, which is supposed to be showing a television broadcast in good old analog SD - but it gets the point across.

See anything wrong?

The takeup #reel, on the right, turns clockwise, the opposite direction of the (normal) direction of the supply reel. So the tape wraps onto the inner side of the takeup reel, and ends up "inside out".

There's also no tension arm on the supply side, and an apparent #tension arm on the takeup side, but it's not actually in the tape path.

I don't think any machines were actually made like this, but I'm not an #expert. Can anyone identify the deck they butchered or digi-simmed to create this #sin against nature? 😉

A screen capture from a fictional television documentary featured in the movie "Late Night with the Devil" (2023). It shows an open-reel tape recorder (aka reel-to-reel) with a tape loaded on it. The scene this is taken from shows the playback of the tape. The tape unspools from the left-hand supply reel counter-clockwise normally, but the takeup reel on the right-hand side turns clockwise, with the tape passing to the left of the center axis of the reel. I'm not aware of any decks that actually work this way. There are other oddities too, like no tension arm on the supply side, an apparent tension arm on the takeup side but which is not actually in the tape path, and various other weirdnesses.
#OpenReel#ReelToReel#audio
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RationizedInsanity🏳️‍🌈🇺🇦🇨🇦🇬🇱🇵🇸

Huh, we may live in the Boondocks of the Universe.

I found it really interesting, but we may be in the middle of the largest known super void in the universe.

Recent discovery. It's called the KBC void, and is about a billion light-years across or so.

It's the best explanation #astronomy has come up with for the discrepancy in the #CosmologicalConstant and is probably a good thing. Cuz we are less likely to have extreme events happen to us.

#science#randomthoughts#cool
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Mathieu

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David Dufrene de @auposte visionne et commente la sorte de #biographie réalisée par un #media #extreme_droite à son propos. C'est un sujet grave: sous des airs de sérieux et de professionnalisme, on désinforme et attise la haine. Pourtant l'attitude de Dufrene est tellement #cool et modèle! De plus il y a un extrait des Béruriers Noirs #BxN (mais pas de #Nirvana).

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