Talk:Braingames (1983 TV series)

Would it be worth noting that Tales of Wrongovia provided wrong information? The best example is the segment involving Sarah Bernhardt. Brain Games claims that Sarah Bernhardt could not have done one of these things: appeared in a silent film, made a film with sound, made a hit recording, or be heard on the radio. We are told that she could not have made a film with sound because "talking pictures did not come on the scene until 1927".

The misinformation here is two fold.

1) Edison's Kinetophone allowed films to have sound from 1893 and a 1912 demo reel still exists.

2) Sarah Bernhardt starred in Le duel d'Hamlet a 1900 picture that used the Kinetophone though sources are a little muddled about if the (now lost) wax cylinder had actual dialogue or just sound effects.

Even if Le duel d'Hamlet was just sound effects it was still "a film with sound" and there were many other "films with sound" made before Sarah Bernhardt died. So should could have made a talking picture--2606:A000:7D44:100:CDB9:6266:408F:6AB0 (talk) 12:46, 7 March 2017 (UTC)

No, that is not worth mentioning. 2600:6C55:6780:35:7D1F:B2B6:7D37:7C13 (talk) 05:04, 20 September 2017 (UTC)

If "season 1" consisted of one episode, and the other episodes came a year later, then don't we really have a standalone special which was later brought back as a series, rather than two seasons? 2600:6C55:6780:35:7D1F:B2B6:7D37:7C13 (talk) 05:08, 20 September 2017 (UTC)

Why does one or a few things in the show have anything to do with why the article should be removed? As for the talking pictures thing, yes, there have been many attempts at "talkies" before 1927, but that was the year it was finally perfected enough to bring to the masses. Also, the fact there was a standalone episode, then 5 extra ones 2 years later isn't worth a deletion of the whole article.