What I saw on the hour-long Discovery channel program was about 30 minutes
worth of commercials, a lot of salt flat sound bites with no real context,
and maybe ten minutes of actual footage most of which was repeated before
and after each commercial break.
Lance
----- Original Message -----
From: "John Szalay" <jpszalay01@insightbb.com>
To: "LSR" <land-speed@autox.team.net>
Sent: Wednesday, December 17, 2008 3:06 PM
Subject: Re: [Land-speed] [Fwd: land speed racing on Discovery this
Tuesday!!!]
>> As the Associate Producer of the show it would be a true gift if you were
>> send me your comments - good or ill -- about the show.
>> >
>> *Speedy Regards,*
>> > *"LandSpeed" Louise Ann Noeth*
>>
>
> FWIW:
> I was glad to see the presentation, however I'm not impressed with the
> "Hollywood" and NASCAR type treatment. IE:
>
> the crashs, (we saw the bike crash several times, as well as the flip
> and
> streamliner roll, (come on, once is enough) the subject is racing and
> Bonneville's place in LSR.
>
> the summarization (or catch up) at the start of each segment after
> a commercial break,
> the quick change of shots ( its very disturbing and nauseating)
> ( and I REALLY hate when they do a steady-cam walk around )
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