Machine Made Voices! (1939)

Titles read: "MACHINE MADE VOICES!"
Hollywood, California, United States of America.
In a Hollywood CBS recording studio we see American film star actress Lucille Ball telling us she has just travelled cross-country by train. She holds two small amplifiers against her throat and mouths some words. The amplifiers transform the sound of a steam train coming from a record into 'steam train words' picked up by Lucille's larynx. I cannot make out all of them - the last are "Hello everybody".
Three technician men sit at a table wearing headphones and making notes. Lucille does another demonstration - this one seems to be 'cow words' - very difficult to decipher. I guess it was still in the early stages!
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[@DisneyGary93]

Hey! The voice of Casey Junior!!!! 😊 (from: Dumbo and The reluctant dragon

[@Bargerland]

Great trivia quesiton... What do Lucille Ball, the band Rufus, Peter Frampton, and Bruno Mars have in common? Love it!

[@ChrisMezzolesta]

Lucy you got some splainin to do!!!!

[@rnbsteenstar]

That's the sonovox for you! The talk box does the same thing except it uses a tube inserted into the mouth rather than having to hold two specialized speakers next to the larynx.

[@3ertin]

It's coming right for us

[@WindowsGG]

Lucille Ball's Early Appearance
also nice lol :D

[@exoticcar5482]

This is a device known as the Sonovox

[@jukesjointOG]

And Lucy was a device known as a Fox.

[@brianphillips579]

"Ferdinand! Come to Mama!" was a reference to a Disney cartoon. In "The Story of Ferdinand", he was not interesting in charging, like other bulls. He preferred sniffing flowers. The short won an Academy Award.

[@RoseRelisnot]

Is nobody gonna talk about how the machine voice sounds terrifying?

[@drummergirl4239]

So this is like the first talkbox hahaha

[@rnbsteenstar]

@@HVDG yes. Even though this is still sometimes used occasionally, it has largely been replaced by the talk box due to its easier configuration of inserting a tube into the mouth rather than having to hold those two speakers against the larynx.

[@user-rp8qp1yi3s]

Hey it’s Casey Jr!

[@kevinnsevinn799]

Do it while eating chocolates

[@rager1969]

I always thought she was pretty, but damn!