This week we had to share a story or our experience when someone speaking, gesturing, or practicing something that they meant to be a hidden transcript, but ended up delivering it as a public transcript. 
          I went back and tried to see if anything comes up from my own experience, but couldn’t think of anything. However, what came across my mind are lots of hilarious situations that we view during live news on TV channels. These weathercasters or news reporters who are put in circumstances of live streaming are obligated to deliver information no matter what. So many stories when someone gets into the frame with them and starts dragging all of the attention, when words are pronounced incorrectly, unexpected loss of objects in the frame or replaced by something not relevant, dropping of the camera, weather conditions that make it difficult to deliver the news, digital errors, and much more. Here is a video of Best TV News Bloopers of the Decade:
         From my point of view, these moments on the video could have been left as hidden transcripts, but instead were exposed as public due to live broadcasting. 
However, there is another interesting angle which I’d like to look from – lines from famous movies that were never meant to be said. Actors sometimes get into characters so deeply that they can start improvising based on their impulses. Often, directors find those choices very interesting, and decide to include them into a final cut. For instance, in The Shining (1980), Jack Nicholson ad-libbed the line "Here's Johnny!" in imitation of announcer Ed McMahon's famous introduction of Johnny Carson on U.S. network NBC-TV's long-running late night television program The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson. Stanley Kubrick, who had been living in England since before Carson took over "The Tonight Show," had no clue what "Here's Johnny!" meant. This line really scared a lot of us but what we don't know is that it was never in the script and editors hesitated of including it into the final version. This is how a hidden transcript became not only a public one, but also a very famous one! I’d like to attach an interesting link with several cases similar to Jack Nicholson’s.



With that all said, I really like humorous situations where a transcript turns from hidden to a public kind. Those unplanned lines and expressions become priceless and in some cases legendary! 

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