Contents

Foreword

Preface

Acknowledgments

Introduction

How to Use this Book

Reel 1 Short Subjects (Glossary, Trivia, Scoreboard)

Sc. 1 Introduction to Short Subjects

Sc. 2 Welcome to It

Sc. 3 Bits of Glossary

Sc. 4 Trims and Trivia

Sc. 5 Music Scoreboard

Sc. 6 Postscript for the Scoreboard

Reel 2 Exhibitionists (The Theater Beat)

Sc. 1 Theater Beat Short Notices

Sc. 2 Theater Beat Articles

Reel 3 Sound Reports (Notices, News Articles, and Big News)

Sc. 1 Notices

Sc. 2 News Articles

Sc. 3 Big News

Reel 4 Rewinding (Articles, Historical)

Sc. 1 Setting the Context for Historical Articles

Sc. 2 Articles of Historical Note

Sc. 3 Understanding SFX and Libraries

Sc. 4 Rick Mitchell Research

Reel 5 Talking Pictures (Interviews)

Sc. 1 Introduction

Sc. 2 Patching Up Lawrence (Richard L. Anderson)

Sc. 3 Jammin’ with the Cosmos (Mark Mangini)

Sc. 4 Ben Burtt Sounds Off! (Ben Burtt)

Sc. 5 Thoughts from E.T. (Elliot Tyson)

Sc. 6 Sound Director Runs TV Academy (Leo Chaloukian)

Sc. 7 The Washing Machine (Tim Hoggatt, Deborah Dobb, and Jim Cavaretta)

Sc. 8 We Chat with DTS’s Jeff Levison (Jeff Levison)

Reel 6 Active Listening (Reviews at the Movies)

Sc. 1 Introduction

Sc. 2 “He Bugged Me” (The Fly II)

Sc. 3 Dead Calm

Sc. 4 Classic Comic (Robert Altman’s Popeye )

Sc. 5 Lethal Effects! (Lethal Weapon 2)

Sc. 6 Bear With Us (L’ours , a.k.a. The Bear)

Sc. 7 The Hunt for Red October

Sc. 8 Ben-Hur

Sc. 9 Doors of Pretension (The Doors)

Sc. 10 Digital, Schmigital! (Final Approach)

Sc. 11 Gump Sounds Great (Forrest Gump)

Sc. 12 When Dinosaurs Ruled The Box Office (Jurassic Park)

Reel 7 Critical Listening (Reviews at Home)

Sc. 1 Introduction to George Simpson

Sc. 2 Laser Discs and the Reviewer

Sc. 3 Picks Disc Pix

Sc. 4 1989 Great Vintage for Laser Sound

Sc. 5 Golden Reels on Disc

Sc. 6 And the Competition is Fierce Dep’t.

Sc. 7 The West Side Kids

Sc. 8 Laserblast: Surround Yourself

Sc. 9 LaseReviews

Sc. 10 LaserViews: Marketing Wars Continued

Sc. 11 Laserblasts: Dep’t. of Suspicious Restorations

Sc. 12 Laser Louie Looks at Musicals and Other Happy Type Stuff

Sc. 13 Trekkers in Heaven

Sc. 14 Pardon Me, But Your Fangs are in My Wallet

Sc. 15 Sounds Your Father Never Heard

Sc. 16 Home Video in Identity Crisis

Reel 8 Sound Thinking (Thoughts and Analysis)

Sc. 1 Introduction

Sc. 2 Indy Splits

Sc. 3 Holy Split-Surrounds, Batman!

Sc. 4 What’s Q-Sound ?

Sc. 5 Cinema Digital Sound Introduced

Sc. 6 Cinema Digital Sound Falters

Sc. 7 Digital Editing Meets Mag- Dracula

Reel 9 Sturm und Drang (Editorial and Opinion)

Sc. 1 Introduction

Sc. 2 Editorial Notices

Sc. 3 Opinion: Going to the Movies

Sc. 4 Opinion: Colorizing, Restoration Standards

Sc. 5 Editorial: The Colorization of Sound

Sc. 6 Restorations and Re-Releases

Sc. 7 Opinion: Labor Relations, Personal Standards

Sc. 8 Busman’s Holiday

Sc. 9 On the Abuse

Sc. 10 Editorial: Aby… Abbeh… Abbbah… Abbuh…

Sc. 11 Opinion: Credit for Movie Sound Workers

Sc. 12 Editorial: Eighty-One Out!

Sc. 13 Thoughts from the Foley Stage

Sc. 14 Editorial: The Foley Grail

Reel 10 Unsound Thinking (Humor)

Sc. 1 Introduction

Sc. 2 Humor Pieces

Sc. 3 April Fool’s Issue

Sc. 4 In Appreciation of John P.

Sc. 5 New Equipment Roundup (Not Really)

Reel 11 Reader Participation (Bag of Snail-Mail)

Sc. 1 Introduction: Life before the World Wide Web

Sc. 2 On the Bylines

Sc. 3 The Mail (1989–1994)

Sc. 4 Call and Response: The Johnson Letter

Sc. 5 Concluding Thoughts

Reel 12 Time and Tide (Concerns and Obituaries)

Sc. 1 Recovering

Sc. 2 Jimmy Macdonald: The Sound of a Spider Web

Sc. 3 Ken Berger

Sc. 4 Remembering Alan Splet

Sc. 5 Murray Spivack Tribute

Sc. 6 Three Lively Spirits

Sc. 7 To the Trained Ear

Afterword and Further Reading

Appendix 1 Moviesound Newsletter’s Guide to Reading Materials

Appendix 2 Extended Note: A Case of Blackmail

Appendix 3 Personal Note: In Combat with E.T.

Appendix 4 Extended Note: Auteur or Hauteur?

Appendix 5 The Whole SFX Catalogue

Appendix 6 Laser Discs as Transition and The Couch Potato’s Guide to Laser Sound

About the Authors

Index