It's amazing to me and also beyond frustrating that this low effort video is getting more views per hour than the long form content that I actually spend weeks researching/writing/editing. I hate it here. Anyway, If you're a fan of classic Hollywood and like thoughtful well researched content check out my channel. www.youtube.com/@CinemaCities1978/videos The transatlantic is like a funky mashup of American and British English, used mostly in classic Hollywood films of the 1930s and 1940s. You can hear this accent in all sorts of films from the era, like romantic comedies, dramas, and big-budget musicals. It was the signature sound of Hollywood's Golden Age, used to give characters a fancy-schmancy, well-educated or upper-crusty vibe. Katherine Hepburn was upper-crusty and that accent came to her naturally 😂 Transatlantic accent movie clips: THE PHILADEPLHIA STORY (1940) FEMALE (1933) STAGE DOOR (1937) OUR BETTERS (1933) LADY OF SCANDAL (1930)
People have the attention span of a dog seeing a squirrel these days. I had a mechanical engineering professor (15 years ago) who recognized that 6 minutes was the point where people lose focus, so he'd have us stand up and stretch for about 30 seconds. With snapchat and tiktok, that 6 minutes is now 12 seconds, unfortunately.
A lot of long form content drags on and on without getting to the point. Plus, a lot of people will scroll through shorts while waiting on something and won't watch anything long unless they think they have the time.
Im American i have 2 British buddies and they sound somewhat similar im not british but i can say from hearing the accent for 3 years this doesn't sound British it sounds like an American putting on a fake accent
F. Scott Fitzgerald, in his short story 'The Rich Boy' (that's the one with his famous line "the rich are different from you and me.") talks about the peculiar accent of some upper-class Easterners, which he traces to them having been educated by English governesses. In later years this was called "Locust Valley lockjaw" after an area in, I think, upstate New York. The best example that many may remember is the character of Miss Hathaway, the secretary in "The Beverly Hillbillies," played by Nancy Kulp. It's a genuine accent. I went to college with someone from upstate NY and he spoke exactly that way.
When I read this I went down a rabbit hole and realized that this accent is also utilized by Frances Conroy in a lot of her American Horror Story characters.
I've heard "Larchmont lockjaw," also...from Larchmont Village in Westchester County, New York. Mr. Howell from Gilligan's Island being a notable example.
I love the way of talking in the old films, it is clear that the actors have gone to diction lessons, so even those who, like me, do not "chews" american english too well can enjoy the film in the original language
Watching from New Orleans, Louisiana. Ahhh, I adore Modern English. More business can get done, punchlines could be understood, cigarettes could be smoked.,
@@aleksandramakari my previous comment was clearly an observational bit of humour, nothing to do with advocating violence towards anyone. I was 'making fun of the past'. I don't advocate any of the things that they did do in the past - (drinking in the day, driving without seatbelts, slapping women) - those things are in the past because we made progress.
This was an easy way for movie goers to understand the actors. I like the fast talkers like Gable and others that could spout out pages of dialogue in a few seconds. AND you knew exactly what they were saying. Tom Hanks in his early days could do that.
This is also known as the "Mid Atlantic" accent ( half way between American and English) For a good example of a male with this accent, you can't get anymore perfect Mid Atlantic than Cary Grant, who was actually Cockney English but in trying to rid himself of that accent to work in Hollywood and to refine his speech, he ended up with the perfect Mid Atlantic which is really noticeable in his early films.
I’ve been trying this accent for months and I’m quite really proud of it but my family and everyone think I’m talking funny and say that I should stop I wanna cry
@@t-swizzylover3752 compare how you sound like with actual recordings of transatlantic accents and see where you can improve on. Keep trying and don’t quit. Don’t beat yourself up over it. After all this is nothing to stress over it’s just a little gimmick to make yourself proud.
Listen, you don't try to mimic a transatlantic accent. First you must perfect the upper-class British accent by listening to recordings of the likes of British royalty instead of these make believe actors. Once you've perfected that then you'll be able to seamlessly accentuate words with a little British flare when appropriate. If you can't do a perfect British accent then it will just sound like you're pretending with your transatlantic. An easy way to pick up British if you can't manage studying is to simply watch British TV like Doctor Who which is fine enough these days.
That's why I love the pre-code Gold Diggers of 1933, Ladies of Leisure (1930), Man's Castle (1933), etc.. The didn't do the Mid Atlantic accent. "somewhere midway between England and New England".
I heart the mid atlantic accent "Amemmericaah"😅 bit high educated american accent , bit RP Brit accent with Hint of The poshest words in Brit english ! Awesome but I cannot immitate it though ! "I Doooh" at the end , Golly Gosh😅
No, this is the american dialect of modern stationary areas, main hub talk. The Mid Atlantic accent was extremely obvious, and was spoken by british speakers. This is a very American accent at the time, don't forget that we were speaking english, dutch, and irish in the 17th century.
Lol the last clip is wild : She sounds really English in the first sentence, and then she says I do with a harsh stop. Sounds so jarring because of the way she stretches out every word until then ! English to American Is it just her voice that turns the trans Atlantic accent into sounding more British or what ? She sounds almost exactly ( to the untrained ear anyway ) to someone who speaks In a British accent all her life… then that harsh “I do” sounds brutal !
Some people say this is a natural accent, but I still question that claim. Perhaps it is natural in those cases where people grew up listening to their parents speak this way, but in others, it seems more an affectation in an attempt to sound more affluent. Then there are those who's accent has been said to be transatlantic but who came by it from the other direction such as actor John Houseman, who was born in Romania to an English mother and was educated in Great Britain where he spent some years of his life before emigrating to the United States. You can hear his accent in this classic old TV ad - ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-gl9Cyn266Lo.html
@@justmey Exactly. It's an affectation. Even Kate Hepburn's slipped in her old age. Watch her in interviews when she got old and she sounds like what she was an upper east-er. No British twang.
@@CinemaCities1978 To keep it simple, the microphone back then couldn't process the normal accent. So they mixed British and American accents which made birth to the transatlantic accent.
American’s doing British accents always sound way off- I don’t think many actors have managed to nail it. Its like Americans tend to overcompensate on certain syllables because they are so different to how an American would say them. Perhaps its less familiarity with British voices either idk. That being said, totally not Patricia’s fault and actually think she does a good job for Zelda- she gives a performance that makes Zelda sound intelligent and wise beyond her years, yet also deeply insecure and vulnerable inside.