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Walter Elliott (November 19, 1903 – August 10, 1984) [1] was an American sound editor who won Best Sound Editing at the 1963 Academy Awards making him the first person to ever win the award. He won it for his work in the 1963 Stanley Kramer film It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World .
Sound Recordings Fund Musical Works Fund; Record Labels (sound recording copyright holders) 38.4% Music Publishers 16.65% Featured Artists 25.6% Songwriters 16.65% Non-featured Instrumentalists and Vocalists 2.7% Percentage of Total Fund 66.7% Percentage of Total Fund 33.3%
Ring-and-spring microphones, such as this Western Electric microphone, were common during the electrical age of sound recording c. 1925–45.. The second wave of sound recording history was ushered in by the introduction of Western Electric's integrated system of electrical microphones, electronic signal amplifiers and electromechanical recorders, which was adopted by major US record labels in ...
A sound editor is a creative professional responsible for selecting and assembling sound recordings in preparation for the final sound mixing or mastering of a television program, motion picture, video game, or any production involving recorded or synthetic sound. The sound editor works with the supervising sound editor. The supervising sound ...
The sound film had four double-width optical soundtracks, three for left, center, and right audio—and a fourth as a control track with three recorded tones that controlled the playback volume of the three audio channels. Because of the complex equipment this system required, Disney exhibited the movie as a roadshow, and only in the United States.
James M. Falkinburg was born in California on September 25, 1932. He grew up in a show business family; his grandparents were stage actors and his father was Sam Nelson, a silent movie actor (The Circus Kid) who later became a film director (Mandrake the Magician; Sagebrush Law) and assistant director (The Lady from Shanghai; Some Like It Hot).
Internet star Jack Doherty, who recently crashed his $200,000 McLaren, leading to a ban from Kick, renewed controversy. Following his accident prompted by dangerously texting and driving while in ...
Tony Schwartz (August 19, 1923 – June 15, 2008) was an American sound archivist, sound designer, pioneering media theorist, and advertising creator. Known as the "wizard of sound", he is perhaps best known for his role in creating the controversial "Daisy" television advertisement for the 1964 Lyndon B. Johnson campaign.