You're supposed to be staring at the microphone...

Andrew Everard 21 June 2008 18:22

This just in from Tannoy.

In the new film The Edge Of Love, which tells the story of the two women in the life of writer Dylan Thomas. Keira Knightley, as cabaret artiste Vera Philips, is seen singing into a vintage Tannoy ribbon microphone.

Apparently, ""Produced from 1939 until well after the war and possibly even into the 1950’s, these microphones were available for both stage and desktop use. Its presence in the new movie underlines the long-standing heritage of the Tannoy brand."

The Edge of Love is in cinemas now. Microphone-spotters should form an orderly queue.

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Andrew Everard, Audio Editor of Gramophone since November 1999 and What Hi-Fi? Sound and Vision's Consulting Editor, read English at Queens' College, Cambridge a very long time ago! He started his journalistic career in 1982 on Haymarket's photographic magazines, and subsequently worked on What Hi-Fi?, High Fidelity, Audiophile and Home Cinema magazines, as well as contributing a monthly column to Japanese title HiVi.