We use Optical Character Recognition (OCR) during our scanning and processing workflow to make the content of each page searchable. You can view the automatically generated text below as well as copy and paste individual pieces of text to quote in your own work.
Text recognition is never 100% accurate. Many parts of the scanned page may not be reflected in the OCR text output, including: images, page layout, certain fonts or handwriting.
This one at Elmshurst survived and is still rung every Sunday. The inscription invokes the protection of St. Augustine and dates from the casting of the bell in 1523."
When you try this with the film, you find that the bell is stationary while you are talking about its being rung. Later it is chiming while you discuss the inscription. You might, of course, rearrange the shots to get over this. But then you find it unsatisfactory to see the bell at rest after it has been chiming.
It is much better to revise the commentary to get over this difficulty. At the same time, you can improve it in several other respects. For example, it is illogical to leave the casting of the bell till the end. After a while you can arrive at this:
Shot Commentary
LS Church, from higher up valley. Just above Elmshurst
MLS Church. Two people enter stands the church of
churchyard. St. Augustine.
MS Bell-cot over roof. The bell-cot over the
chancel gable holds one of the few Sanctus bells
CS Bell in England to survive
the Reformation. Ever since it was cast in
CS Part of inscription 1523, it has called on St.
Augustine, "Protect thy bell and keep it sound". He has protected it well and it chimes on Sun
MCS Two people looking up days as it has done for
four hundred years.
CS Bell chiming (Fade-in sound of bell
chiming.)
This provides a far better combination. The commentary reads smoothly and logically, yet fits the film all along.
Choice of Words
Before attempting to record your commentary, try reading it aloud, and if possible recording it completely by itself on a tape recorder, and you will probably discover several minor defects. For example, in the passage above,
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