SOUND EXPERTS AT WORK.
There probably are no keener ears or imaginations anywhere than those of the sound experts in an animated movie studio. These gentlemen can , listen to the soft whir of a humming bird's wings, and "hear" the booming beat of an African ionvtom. They can put the half-silent vibration of the bird's wings on a sound track and play it back for you, and you feel sure you are hearing Zulu drums. The men who accomplish things of this sort have had a marvellous time with the new film fantasy, "Gulliver's Travels." They have been, outdoing the natural sounds of Nature in the "dubbing" rooms at Paramount Studio,. where they placed "Gulliver's Travels" in shape to fly to all corners of the world. The sound men' started the first reel of "Gulliver's Travels" by putting in their sound effects first, and then leaving it to the artists and animators to illustrate their noises. Inasmuch as this particular sounds record ' presented the shriek and crash of a tropical hurricane at sea, with the winds whistling, the' waves thundering, the ship's timbers straining and cracking, and the wreckage grinding together, the task which the sound men left to the artists can be imagined.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXIX, Issue 97, 24 April 1940, Page 18
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