scott <sco### [at] scottcom> wrote:
> >  So why are movie makers so afraid of putting a realistic pause between
> > the lightning and the thunder?

> Maybe because then the viewer might not realise it's lightning?  Sometimes 
> IRL I can't tell whether it's thunder or someone wheeling out their bin :-) 
> so on TV I guess there's even more scope for confusion.  Better to make 
> things overly obvious I guess.

  I suppose that could be one possible rationale. It just seems very common.
I wonder if movie makers have some kind of instruction book on how to do
these things "correctly".

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                                                          - Warp

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