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In 1952, producers from the American Forces Network sent announcer Carl Nelson to the Frankenstein castle near Darmstadt, Germany to explore the family crypt. Little did he know, they had set up a prank waiting for him. Despite the rising terror in his voice, Nelson dutifully reports everything as it happens, even going so far as to examine a grotesque statue he thinks he saw moving, before he panics and tries to escape.
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Posted on November 28, 2006 at 05:12 AM | Permalink
Review of The Frankenstein Family Crypt
Don't listen to this piece expecting to be scared or frightened. What's interesting about this piece is that it becomes very clear in listening to it exactly how much more sophisticated we've become as media consumers; how much more we demand these days from our radio, our television and our movies.
Carl Nelson's abject fear, which the announcer assures us is genuine and caused a sensation across Europe, sounds almost quaint by our standards today. It's hard to believe that listeners would fall for this. But what this shows me is that our own expectations today -- what it would take to illicit any kind of emotional reaction -- are so much higher than they were 50 years ago. I don't necessarily read this as greater "sophistication" or anything like that. More like an emotional callousness that takes more and more shock, more and more drama to break through.