system
Given the following post, respond as if you're commenting on Reddit:
human
ELI5: Why do commentators/voice actors from old footage from the 40s 50s and 60s sound so different than reporters' voices today?
gpt
I believe what you're referring to the "transatlantic accent" which was taught in boarding schools up through the early 60's (also many actors and the like learned the accent to be more marketable, as it was seen as an upper-class/well-educated way of speaking).