Visualizing the Hounds

[KARAF]

Hey All,

I remember that as a kid I had read The Hound of the Baskervilles, and fell in love with Sherlock Holmes stories. But... at the time it was hard to visualize the moors etc. (Being in sunny So. Cal.) Then, I remember hearing this story on RMT and being able to 'see' the story as it was being told. It cleared up all my confusion, the foggy countryside just kind of appeared. I remember laying in bed, eyes closed, and 'watching' the radio show.

Anyone else ever have that kind of experience with an RMT episode, that layed out a very 'visual' experience?

Or maybe y'all think I'm nuts and the guys with the white coats by my side are actually correct in their diagnosis... oh good, they're here with my medicines, I'll check back later...

KARAF

[Charlie]

I understand what you are saying and I think that probably we all do. I don't think that at any time we are listening without a visual picture in our heads of what we think is happening, where it is happening, what the people look like, etc.

I think that is a lot of the appeal that draws people like us to these programs. We would rather get the picture from inside our heads than the television screen. Maybe that's the unrealized appeal.

Would we be collecting CBSRMT if it had been on TV instead of the radio? I doubt it. There were certainly a lot of mystery programs on television.

If the we believe from the sound effects and the dialogue in the program that the scene is taking place in a dark alley and it is raining then we can all picture that in our heads instantly. If the scene takes place on the African desert, we may not have been there but we picture it as we listen based on what we think it looks like.

At least that is my experience and opinion.

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[KARAF]

Charlie,

I agree with you completely on your basic premise, but I may have been too simple in my original post. I'm trying to describe a 'visualization' whereby you go beyond the normal radio show, almost projecting yourself into the place along with the actors. Where you find yourself shivering in that cold rainy alley, or straining to see through the fog on the moors.

Not many shows impart that strong an impact on me, but that night, Hound of the Baskervilles did.

KARAF

[Texas]

KARAF...I've been there.

I don't know why, but on listening to "The Great White Shark" I felt like I was right alongside the passengers and crew on a boat, headed toward the great barrier reef for a deep sea fishing trip. I love radio moments like that, and as Charlie says, it's "theatre of the mind" that lets you visualize all sorts of things.

[brian1984_2001]

Being the veteran of dozens of viewings of those Roger Corman films from the early and mid-sixties, the image of the haunted castle is not hard for me to conjur up. The haunted castle stories are my favorites.

It was a visual of the guy hauling the dead body out of the lake in "A Long Way from Home" that has stuck in my mind for almost 25 years. That was powerful for my 12 year old mind.