for Japan Airlines and supplied audio/visual ideas to Bank of America's marketing division. Jacobs's approach to sound manipulation greatly interested Walter Murch and George Lucas, and he was tapped to provide some improvised soundtrack material and background dialogue for Lucas's film THX 1138. Jacobs was godfather to sound designer Ren Klyce. In 1972, Jacobs collaborated with Bob McClay and Chris Koch on a series of half-hour television programs for San Francisco public television station KQED. "The Fine Art of Goofing Off" was a sort of philosophical Sesame Street; each program would develop an open-ended theme, like "time" or "work" in an unpredictable collage of brief episodes in a variety of different styles of animation. Alan Watts, improv troop The Committee, artist Victor Moscoso, musicians Mark Unobsky and Pete Sears, Woody Leafer, and Jordan Belson all contributed to the series. The CD/DVD set by this name has been described as " a kaleidescopic array of sound bites that are alternately funny, charmingly nostalgic, bizarre, psychedelic or inexplicable." Jacobs was joined by David Grieve on a 1973 film, Essential Alan Watts: Man in Nature, Work as Play, which also described Watts' connections to the Beat movement. Some of Jacobs' work is back in print through Locust Music and Important Records. The bulk of his master tapes were destroyed by fire in 1995, though 63 reel-to-reel tapes were rediscovered by Jack Dangers who released a portion of the material in collaboration with Jacobs in 2005. Henry Jacobs co-stars, together with architect Daniel B-H Liebermann, in Frederik Carbon's documentary feature Sunnyside (2017). Personal life Jacobs resided to the north of San Francisco, where he could avoid "electricity and cars." He had three children, practiced Qigong, and was a fervent appreciator of ping-pong and Afro-Cuban music. Discography The following is a partial discography: Interview with Dr. Sholem Stein on the Origins of Calypso, KPFA Shorty Petterstein Interview, KPFA Radio Programme No 1 Audio Collage: Henry Jacobs’ Music and Folklore (Folkways, 1955) Two Interviews (Fantasy, 1955) Interviews of Our Times (Fantasy, 1955) "Sonata For Loudspeakers (Tape Loops Demo)" (1953-4). On album: "Sounds of New Music" (Folkways, 1957) The Weird Wide World of Shorty Petterstein (World Pacific, 1957) Highlights of Vortex (Folkways, 1959) Sounds of New Music (Folkways, 1962) The Laughing String (MEA, 1963) The Wide Weird World of Henry Jacobs/The Fine Art of Goofing Off (Important Records, 2005) Around the World with Henry Jacobs (Important) References