Laugh track
Risas enlatadas
- Date
- c. 1950 · confidence medium
- Place
- Los Angeles, California, United States
- Credited to
- Charles Douglass
- Field
- Communication
What it is
A recorded audio track of laughter inserted into television comedy productions; sound engineer Charles Douglass pioneered canned laughter with his Laff Box machine.
It fell out of use as single-camera sitcoms without a studio audience became common.
What it led to
- Standard sound of US sitcoms from the 1950s to the 1970s
- Development of stereophonic laughter in the 1980s