r/otr • u/PuffGetsSideB • Feb 13 '25
the attack on pearl harbor announced in the middle of an episode of the great gildersleeve
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u/aNewFaceInHell Feb 13 '25
I love this. There’s an episode of Inner Sanctum that breaks for what I guess is a Dec 7th news flash. Not directly about Pearl Harbor but attacks on the Philippines. I could easily have the date wrong though.
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u/RealChelseaCharms Feb 14 '25
i think you are right, yes; (I have heard a few Dec. 7th interruptions) I know The Shadow on that day had Pearl Harbor news, (but the episode is lost) & I think on Jack Benny too? (too busy to check)
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u/stanpinkowski31 Feb 14 '25
This is why I love OTR. You sometimes get history
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u/TheranMurktea Feb 14 '25
I agree! Just recently I had this with Bob Hope's Show during 47-49. It started with jokes on the news/fact(?) in 47 that soviets banned chewing gum in their sector of Berlin. There were a few references to Berlin Iin later months. However in December 48 Hope, Irving Berlin and a few other US entertainers went to Berlin to give a Christmas show for the US troops (the show was recorded but in poor quality - because it was live). "Operation Vittles" aka Berlin Airlift was mentioned there.
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u/Eastern-Musician4533 Feb 14 '25
Was listening to a random episode the other day that aired later that night. They had a message at the beginning acknowledging it and then the show ran.
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Feb 14 '25
That's a fine how do you do. "We're in war with Japan now cause Japan attacked Hawaii. And now, back to our show!"
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u/RealChelseaCharms Feb 14 '25
It was also announced on The Shadow, Sun. 12.7.1941) but that episode is missing from circulation.
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u/manlybrian Feb 14 '25
Hah, I just listened to this the other night, because I've been listening to episodes as I drift off to sleep. I was very surprised! What a wild piece of history.
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u/MittlerPfalz Feb 14 '25
The reporter sounds as calm and chipper as if he’s reading a Bromoseltzer ad. Interesting. Also, is it me or does it sound like he’s saying Hawaii with a v sound instead of a w?
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u/Drone30389 Feb 15 '25
Good catch (it's hard to tell because of the quality of the recording and because of the depth/vibration of his voice).
Apparently Hawaii can be pronounced with a 'v' sound in the native Hawaiian language:
Hawaii (/həˈwaɪ.i/ ⓘ hə-WY-ee; Hawaiian: Hawaiʻi [həˈvɐjʔi, həˈwɐjʔi])
And the original sound isn't quite exactly an English 'w' or 'v':
The W rule in Hawaiian states that the letter W is pronounced differently based on its position in a word. When W starts a word or follows a vowel, it can be pronounced either as the English [w] sound or as the English [v] sound. After the vowels O and U, W is pronounced as [w], while after the vowels E and I, it is pronounced as [v].
You may wonder why Hawaiians pronounce W as V. Linguists explain that the pronunciation of W in Hawaiian is not exactly the same as the English “V” sound. Rather, the letter V is used as a close approximation to represent the unique sound in the Hawaiian language. It is important to note that every language pronounces letters slightly differently, and the pronunciation of W in Hawaii is just one such example.
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u/corben2001 Feb 18 '25
Somewhat related is when the BBC announced that Hitler was dead, a moment of history and significance. There's also the time during a classical music concert related that JFK was killed during the show and they played I believe a Beethoven requiem immediately.
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u/Keltik Feb 13 '25
This is interesting b/c the announcer has to explain where/what PH is.
In most old movies someone will say "Pearl Harbor's been bombed!" & everyone knows what he's talking about.
An exception: Pride Of The Marines (1945) where someone responds, "Where's Pearl Harbor?"