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| rdfs:comment | - "Follow the Bouncing Ball" is the first half of the sixth episode in the fourteenth season of Arthur.
- Follow the Bouncing Ball is a silent episode in Duncan Takes the City.
- It's time for a singalong! Music! Words! And... Follow the Bouncing Ball, everyone! "Follow the bouncing ball" was a technique of directing singalongs in movie theaters. An animated ball kept the beat as it bounced along the lyrics. Sort of the karaoke of its time, but intended for a mass audience. As the ball bounced, it would light up the words it touched. Trailing dotted line optional. Truly ancient iterations of such videos often had the ball marking every beat in the tempo - musical literacy was a much bigger deal in the early 20th Century. Examples of Follow the Bouncing Ball include:
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| abstract | - "Follow the Bouncing Ball" is the first half of the sixth episode in the fourteenth season of Arthur.
- Follow the Bouncing Ball is a silent episode in Duncan Takes the City.
- It's time for a singalong! Music! Words! And... Follow the Bouncing Ball, everyone! "Follow the bouncing ball" was a technique of directing singalongs in movie theaters. An animated ball kept the beat as it bounced along the lyrics. Sort of the karaoke of its time, but intended for a mass audience. As the ball bounced, it would light up the words it touched. Trailing dotted line optional. Truly ancient iterations of such videos often had the ball marking every beat in the tempo - musical literacy was a much bigger deal in the early 20th Century. According to The Other Wiki, the bouncing ball was named and invented by Max Fleischer, the founder of Fleischer Studios, in 1924. Usually the ball is a big red dot, but sometimes it'll be a different color or a small icon appropriate to the setting. Kids' singalong tapes and DVDs still use this technique. Some karaoke videos use a variant, where the text becomes highlighted at certain parts. Examples of Follow the Bouncing Ball include:
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