Maybe Patrick Feaster will be able to scan and "play" that film snippet.

-- Tom Fine

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From: "Randy A. Riddle" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Sunday, March 15, 2015 9:18 AM
Subject: [ARSCLIST] "Sound" of the end of WWI


> This graphic has been making the rounds at several websites and forums
> recently. It's from the book "America's Munitions 1917-18" by Benedict
> Crowell and apparently shows the sound of the end of WWI:
>
> http://life.time.com/history/world-war-i-ceasefire-november-11-1918-graphic/#1
>
> From my limited Googling around, this appears to have been created by a
> military sound ranging system using low frequency microphones that was in
> development during the War.
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sound_ranging#World_War_I
>
> Are there any more original examples of these recordings that survive in
> their original form and not as reproductions in books? Patrick Feaster
> know about this?
>
> rand
>
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