[ggegan]

Back in the 70's when I was an assistant editor at the documentary department of CTV Television in Toronto, I had to lip sync about 10,000 feet of 16mm dailies that were shot in rural Italy without any clappers or voice slates. Occasionally the sound person would clap her hands in front of the camera at the beginning of the take, but that was a rare occurance. What made it really hard was that the subjects were toothless old peasants, so their lips were caved into their mouths, and since I didn't understand Italian anyway it was very daunting. I did manage to get it all synced up as far as anyone could tell, but I was definitely pulling my hair out. I went back to being a musician for a while after that.