Friday, May 30, 2025

AudioMo 2025 and Peplum Movies

It is that time again. A bunch of folks get together and for June 2024 create audio recordings sharing who they are, what they are hearing or what they want to talk about.

My topic this year is the Peplum movies between 1958 to 1969. 

Simply, a Peplum movie is set in old Greece or Rome, has a hero or demi-god who saves people from the bad people. But not always. There are a couple of films set in Egypt. 

There is a lot of interesting things about how that genre of movies came to be created. There are connections from multiple directions and most do not involve oil or a tunic. A very important director of Spaghettis westerns got his start in Peplum movies.

Fifteen years ago, Ernmander started AudioMo as a way to have community and conversation. This is the ultimate diversity project. Blind folks, sighted folks, storytellers and the bashful all try to have a piece of audio to share with other. Mainly participants from the UK, Europe and a handful from the U.S.

I wanted to contribute but I noticed something. Audio isn't accessible to deaf, hard of hearing or new speakers of English. 



It isn't easy to embed text into the audio unless you are using a specific service to create the SRT text file and upload for display..

And to my knowledge, there aren't audio specific embedded captioning that you can click a button and display captions. There could be, I don't know of any at this time.

Yes there are audio players that can display transcripts. But not in real time as the audio.

So what I do is use PowerPoint to hold one photo, record audio and then use video editing software to have it transcribe and display open captions on the screen. 

You can also combine the audio, video into Microsoft ClipChamp to add captions. That rascal is finicky. But it works. I then post the video on YouTube.

I can share the video via Mastodon, Bluesky and other social media portals. It use to be on Twitter. There are still a few folks that participate there but many people chose not to visit that site anymore.

Anyway, I have a few challenges this year but I hope to make it to the end of the month.

As I mentioned, Ernmander is the ringleader of this and you can check out his blog posts on it at

https://write.as/audiomo/


Sunday, June 30, 2024

AudioMo - Just One More Thing...

A few more words about detective resources:

The Thrilling Detective - excellent for all things sleuthing in literary or media form.

Murder, She Watched - deep in the whozit and whatsit for Jessica Flecture fans and also has a lot of info about television detectives.

The Columbophile Blog - lots of folks hugging their inner raincoated detective. 

 

AudioMo Day 21 - The Thin Man Media Connections

The book Thin Man by Dashiell Hammitt was the inspiration of the classic movie series about Nick and Nora Charles. 

In this detective husband and wife trope, Nora is rich and Nick does not mind it a bit. 

Nick is a former private detective with friends on both sides of the law. In this recording, a very brief timeline from the book, the movie series and the television show.

   

 This is #AudioMo, an 30-day international challenge of sound and community. This is my captioned audio about the TV detectives before Columbo. 

 For more info about AudioMo, please visit https://audiomo.vivaldi.net/2024/03/11/what-is-audiomo/

AudioMo Day 30 - Columbo

Last day of AudioMo 2024. Have to talk about the inspiration for the challenge, Columbo.





This is #AudioMo, an 30-day international challenge of sound and community. This is my captioned audio about the TV detectives before Columbo. 

 For more info about AudioMo, please visit https://audiomo.vivaldi.net/2024/03/11/what-is-audiomo/

AudioMo Day 22 - McMillian and Wife

The book Thin Man had a lot of influence on TV writers and producers. 

One of those examples is McMillian and Wife, which was a part of the NBC Mystery Movie. 

This show aired in rotation with McCloud and Columbo.

This is #AudioMo, an 30-day international challenge of sound and community. This is my captioned audio about the TV detectives before Columbo. 

 For more info about AudioMo, please visit https://audiomo.vivaldi.net/2024/03/11/what-is-audiomo/

Saturday, June 29, 2024

AudioMo Day 29 - 77 Sunset Strip

77 Sunset Strip was the most successful of the Warner Brothers clone detectives.

 

This is #AudioMo, an 30-day international challenge of sound and community. This is my captioned audio about the TV detectives before Columbo. 


 For more info about AudioMo, please visit https://audiomo.vivaldi.net/2024/03/11/what-is-audiomo/

Friday, June 28, 2024

AudioMo Day 28 - Peter Gunn

Peter Gunn was stylish, always in trouble and yet had a stable relationship with those that were close to him. 

This makes him unusual as a detective.

   

This is #AudioMo, an 30-day international challenge of sound and community. This is my captioned audio about the TV detectives before Columbo. 

 For more info about AudioMo, please visit https://audiomo.vivaldi.net/2024/03/11/what-is-audiomo/

Thursday, June 27, 2024

AudioMo Day 27 McCloud

Continuing on the theme of a detective out of his or her element, 

McCloud was part of the NBC Mystery Movie of the Week along with McMillian and Wife and Columbo.


   

 This is #AudioMo, an 30-day international challenge of sound and community. This is my captioned audio about the TV detectives before Columbo. 

 For more info about AudioMo, please visit https://audiomo.vivaldi.net/2024/03/11/what-is-audiomo/

Wednesday, June 26, 2024

AudioMo Day 26 The Two Mark Sabers

There is a bit of transatlantic confusion. There is the Mark Saber from the UK that work with a U.S. police department. 

Then there is the Mark Saber from London who is an independent private investigator who takes on hard to solve cases. 

In this version, he has a Canadian fellow doing a lot of the leg work. 

   

 This is #AudioMo, an 30-day international challenge of sound and community. This is my captioned audio about the TV detectives before Columbo. 

 For more info about AudioMo, please visit https://audiomo.vivaldi.net/2024/03/11/what-is-audiomo/

Tuesday, June 25, 2024

AudioMo Day 25 Dial 999

It has been a hectic week but I'll catch up on the weekend. What happens to an RCMP detective (Royal Canadian Mounted Police for the yanks) when he goes to work for Scotland Yard? 

Seems Mike does a lot of footwork and a views of what the city looked like in the olden days.

   

 This is #AudioMo, an 30-day international challenge of sound and community. 

This is my captioned audio about the TV detectives before Columbo. 

 For more info about AudioMo, please visit https://audiomo.vivaldi.net/2024/03/11/what-is-audiomo/