(5:01) 17 seconds of background from an
Untouchables episode, looped for 5 minutes, portraying a busy gin dive in the 30's. In other words, looking back 30 years, in a show that was made over 50 years ago. But 1961 is more ancient than even that. Those folks on the right are real people from that era-- not your blow-dry Happy Days clones. Real people who probably also smell a little odd.
Plus, for us soundheads, the crowd itself has a nice blurry quality; it doesn't sound like real people in a cafe. Some anonymous sound tinkerer, much like you or me, working for Desilu Studios crafted a singularly amorphous bed of pure crowd whitenoise, as pure as a vista by Eno.
Crowded Cafe Loop
