It’s just as well we’ve never had these in England. I doubt even the Timelords would be able to fit inside one of these, and there’s no room for the coffee machine. I assume they are for contacting the campus police, rather than the LAPD directly. I haven’t noticed these boxes outside the campus.The USC librarian gave me a present today – an original blank timing sheet from MGM studios. My very own piece of Hollywood history to take home. I’ve already promised not to go into details about my work, but I’m going to anyway. The timing sheet was the cartoon composer’s starting point. It is a printed chart with space at the top for descriptions of the action, a line or two in the middle to mark where sound effects are going to fall, and three empty staves for the composer to write the music on. The composer and director would mark out the action beat by beat, second by second. Very few timing sheets survive, because they weren’t considered worth keeping. I am really quite thrilled to have my own.
It’s amazing how exciting a blank piece of paper can be.
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