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[Speechie Gal 18]

My take on the audio

[smartmart]

I think we made the most out of this clip.

It's a recording of a yet unknown man in a store.
Someone recorded the conversation on purpose and saved that clip in mp3 format.
The man possibly asks for a blue can. According to Euchre, it may be an 100 years old brand of peppermints.
If Josh minker is the one looking for his father on STIES, we can assume that the man recorded could be his father. The peppermints fits well in the description of such a character (every grandparents i know have a bowl of peppermints lying somewhere, lol).

So mysterious man is closing in on josh father, or he his already spying on him.

I think that is all we can conclude about this miniature clue.

[kosmopol]

Listening to the sounds, and reading all the transcription notes I had an silly idea: perhaps it's really his father, and he wants to record something on the cam, just he worries about Josh, whether he will be able to playback it?

[booba]

A stretch if "with a line on it" holds up:

"Most automated and semi-automated processing of Super 8mm motion picture film utilizes the removal of the film from the cartridge by withdrawing it from the aperture gate using an aperture pressure plate depresser. This has in the past caused scratching either by inattentiveness on the part of the lab technician and/or cartridge exit burrs and surface abrasions. One notable effect noticed by many is the 'infamous' Kodak "blue line" caused by a deep emulsion scratch. Many other laboratories remove film by cracking open the cartridge and using conventional film lab splicing techniques."

And maybe can be seen a little here???

http://super8.wikibruce.com/images/3/34/STIES_20100621_Printout_Image.jpg

[picknick14]

Fishing line.

[Eleven72]

Re: My take on the audio

[asda]

Audio

[2clix]

I think this is proof for either mysterio or josh, its a recording of somebody looking for something in a store, those beeps could be somebody re-pricing with a price gun? or it could be the store doors, but i believe its a a price gun....this is recorded in current day i believe, cause of the technology im assuming the sound might be, and im thinking like a wal mart??? this is nothing more but a clue for josh I think, some people are after him...but there looking in a wal mart...dopes haha

[FilmEdge]

Some great audio detective work, especially working off such (deliberately) vague source material. Amazing some people hear passengers on a plane, others hear patrons in a store.

I'm leaning toward the latter, given the dialogue — if only because it's far too quiet to be in a plane cabin (which would have a constant drone of engines in the background).

I can buy the premise that someone else is recording this conversation since both voice levels are roughly the same (except for voice pitch, as expected). That would imply the record is at roughly an equal distance from both subjects, which also accounts for the environment noise also creeping in.

I have doubts about the tone being a camcorder turning on since it's an odd place to *start* recording the conversation — that would be bad surveillance work to jump in so late. Also, a camcorder tone would be heard by the subjects — you'd want to start tape rolling long before that so no one noticed it.

I thought the "blue cam, fly in on it" interpretation might be a surveillance director watching via remote, but then why would they be using a home video cam on the scene (obvious to spot) or in the van (which would have professional equipment)?

It certainly does sound like "blue can, lion on it" now, though the conversation wouldn't seem to be important by itself. Maybe the audio file is simply a clue that recording/surveillance is happening, that someone's watching someone.

And with SUPER 8 as the title, just imagine how CLOSE ENCOUNTERS would have played out in the era of digital video!

Again, another clue which isn't a blockbuster by itself, but one more piece of a very incomplete puzzle... with a long time left to solve it. Look at how the TRON ARG has 'stalled' for now... we're lucky we're still getting new clues this far out from S8's release.

[jchiv]

what I heard revisited

[jchiv]

yikes

[6Flavours]

Re: My take on the audio

[Melodyman]

One thing must be true.. This is a surveillance recording.. Someone was recording this for a reason.. Who, and why?

[gotoneshot202]

Re: So tell me this isn't weird

[Xeno Lambrose]

Could we be hearing a clip of Mysterio taping Josh?