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Michael Winslow Michael Leslie Winslow (born September 6, 1958) is an American actor, comedian and beatboxer billed as The Man of 10,000 Sound Effects for his ability to make realistic sounds using only his voice. He is best known for his roles in all seven "Police Academy" films as Larvell Jones. He has also appeared in "Spaceballs", "Cheech and Chong's Next Movie", "The Love Boat" and commercials for Cadbury and GEICO. Winslow was born in Spokane, Washington, the son of Verdie and Robert Winslow. He attended the Lisa Maile School of Acting, Modeling and Imaging. Winslow grew up at Fairchild
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entitled "Wizard Ops Chapter 1", providing all the sound effects for the game. He also lent his voice on "Wizard Ops Tactics", a turn-based tactical game and spiritual successor to the previous game. He was also featured in a commercial for GEICO Insurance during their "we hired a celebrity" ad campaign. Michael Winslow Michael Leslie Winslow (born September 6, 1958) is an American actor, comedian and beatboxer billed as The Man of 10,000 Sound Effects for his ability to make realistic sounds using only his voice. He is best known for his roles in all seven "Police Academy" films as
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Michael Winslow Michael Leslie Winslow (born September 6, 1958) is an American actor, comedian and beatboxer billed as The Man of 10,000 Sound Effects for his ability to make realistic sounds using only his voice. He is best known for his roles in all seven "Police Academy" films as Larvell Jones. He has also appeared in "Spaceballs", "Cheech and Chong's Next Movie", "The Love Boat" and commercials for Cadbury and GEICO. Winslow was born in Spokane, Washington, the son of Verdie and Robert Winslow. He attended the Lisa Maile School of Acting, Modeling and Imaging. Winslow grew up at Fairchild
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The show is soon replaced by one featuring Cleveland and Quagmire, entitled "Dark Chocolate and the Rod". The episode was written by series regular Tom Devanney, and directed by James Purdum. During the "Weenie and the Butt" scene, several sound effects can be heard. Each of these were recorded individually by people who have sung at such venues as the Academy Awards, and other high publicity events. "Family Guy" creator Seth MacFarlane has commented that these sound effect recordings took much longer than expected, as they did not sound professional enough. The episode featured guest performances by actress Phyllis Diller,
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the other cadets to quit. Mahoney tries several schemes to get thrown out, but all fail. In Lassard's office, he reveals to Mahoney his deal with Capt. Reed to keep him at the police academy for the next 24 weeks. Eventually he has a change of heart and decides to stay for good, having fallen in love with another cadet, Karen Thompson (Kim Cattrall). While in the academy, Mahoney becomes friends with fellow cadets Larvell Jones (Michael Winslow), a human beatbox and sound effects man who was arrested with Mahoney before they came to the academy (Mahoney pulled some strings
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Clarke), Best Production Design (Philip Ivey, Guy Potgieter), Best Sound (Brent Burge, Chris Ward, Dave Whitehead, Michael Hedges, Ken Saville), Best Special Visual Effects (Dan Kaufman, Peter Muyzers, Robert Habros, Matt Aitken), Best Director (Neill Blomkamp); five Broadcast Film Critics Association nominations: Best Makeup (Won), Best Screenplay, Adapted (Neill Blomkamp, Terri Tatchell), Best Sound, Best Visual Effects, Best Action Movie; and one Golden Globe nomination: Best Screenplay – Motion Picture (Neill Blomkamp, Terri Tatchell). It is the fifth TriStar Pictures film ever nominated for Best Picture at the Academy Awards (the previous four were "As Good as It Gets", "Jerry
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an 'aerial honeymoon' with his bride, formerly Ann Cunningham, also of the studio staff." The couple had two sons, Mark and Stephen. Later he married Avice Curry. Shearer died in Culver City, California, in 1971. Scientific and Technical Academy Award Academy Award for Sound (Wins): Academy Award for Best Visual Effects (Wins): Academy Award for Sound (Nominations): Academy Award for Best Special Effects (Nominations): Douglas Shearer Douglas G. Shearer (November 17, 1899 – January 5, 1971) was a Canadian American pioneering sound designer and recording director who played a key role in the advancement of sound technology for motion pictures.
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Police Academy 2: Their First Assignment Police Academy 2: Their First Assignment is a 1985 comedy film directed by Jerry Paris. It is the first of six sequels in the "Police Academy" series. Many actors return from the first film to respectively reprise their roles. Steve Guttenberg reprises his role as Mahoney, the class clown; former American football player Bubba Smith returns as the man-mountain Hightower; Marion Ramsey is featured again as Laverne Hooks; David Graf returns as gun-crazy Officer Eugene Tackleberry; Michael Winslow returns as sound effects wizard Officer Larvell Jones, and veteran actor George Gaynes returns as Commandant
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starring role alongside John Unicomb in the serial "Becket". Another factor working in Meikle's favour was his ability and desire to perform his own sound effects. Grace Gibson Productions' budget did not cover a professional sound effects person and as such actors who could do effects themselves were highly sought after. Reg James noted Meikle would often compete for rights to do sound effects with his co-stars Ron Roberts and James Condon. Meikle played London-based spy Guy Marriott. 1966 produced several roles for Meikle. He was used in the dual role of actor and announcer in "The Shame of Sefton
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same name from the film "Avatar" (2009), a film noted for its similar use of 3-D imagery. The 3-D graphics used in "Law and Oracle" may or may not work, depending on the type of 3-D eyeglasses used by the viewer. The title of the episode is a parody of the long-running NBC legal drama television franchise "Law & Order". The sequences involving Fry's police academy training are references to the "Police Academy" series of films. One of the robots in Fry's class, the "Sound Effects 5000", is a direct parody of the "Police Academy" character Sgt. Larvelle Jones (Michael
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Erskine. During production of the anime adaptation, members of the staff made several trips to Chicago to scout locations, including visits to a Gun Shop and a Police Academy. During these trips the staff were able to handle and fire real guns for research, something not possible in gun controlled Japan. A Shelby Cobra GT-500 was recorded in Hollywood for sound effects purposes, and almost all of the sound effects for other items were recorded using the real object. The anime adaptation was broadcast on the Encore "Action Channel" in September 2000. The series was nominated in the "Best American
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Sound Effects Choir The Hollywood Film Chorale Sound Effects Choir, also popularly known as the Honda Choir, is an ensemble that can physically produce human sound effects without electronic means. They are well known for two performances in a Honda advertisement and at the Academy Awards. It is conducted by Steve Sidwell, who is also the composer of their repertoire. Sound effects are produced primarily by means of using the mouth; the arms, fingers, and hands are also sometimes used. For example, the performers would tap their fingernails against their teeth to simulate rain falling on a car's windshield. To
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instead. This is a list of films that have won or been nominated for an Academy Award for Best Sound Effects (1963–1967, 1975), Sound Effects Editing (1977, 1981–1999), or Sound Editing (1979, 2000–present). See Academy Award for Best Sound Mixing for a corresponding list of winners for Best Sound. Note: Ben Burtt and Stephen Hunter Flick both have Special Achievement wins in addition to their competitive wins. These have been included with their win and nomination count. The only sound editor to date who has a Special Achievement win and has an Oscar nomination but not a competitive win is
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bike tricks involved him wearing a wireless microphone in order to pick up his comedic sound effects. Unknown to the production crew, the frequency used by the microphone was the same as that used by the military, resulting in officials descending upon the film crew (though the incident ended on friendly terms, says Paul Maslansky). "Mission to Moscow" was barely released to theaters. Unlike all the other "Police Academy" films, Warner Bros. only released the picture in a token, limited run, grossing a scant $126,247 in the U.S., making it the least successful movie in the series. Its luck with
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for the Grand Prix during this event. Sound Effects Choir The Hollywood Film Chorale Sound Effects Choir, also popularly known as the Honda Choir, is an ensemble that can physically produce human sound effects without electronic means. They are well known for two performances in a Honda advertisement and at the Academy Awards. It is conducted by Steve Sidwell, who is also the composer of their repertoire. Sound effects are produced primarily by means of using the mouth; the arms, fingers, and hands are also sometimes used. For example, the performers would tap their fingernails against their teeth to simulate
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by layering sounds from birds, hyenas, and Kamper's wife doing impressions of a dolphin. The audio team spent a great deal of time on immersing the player in their role of a Big Daddy through the audio—everything from the sound of the footsteps to the sounds for impacts and water drips on the player's armor was used to sell the player on who their character was. Audio programmer Guy Somberg created a background sound system that allowed the team to layer stereo sounds together depending on the player's location, combined with mono sound effects for certain areas. "This allowed us
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up "Warrior" magazine in 1982 and asked Lloyd to create a new pulp character. Lloyd and writer Alan Moore, who had previously collaborated on several "Doctor Who" stories at Marvel UK, created "V for Vendetta", a dystopian adventure featuring a flamboyant anarchist terrorist fighting against a future fascist government. Lloyd, who illustrated in cinematic chiaroscuro, devised V's Guy Fawkes-inspired appearance and suggested that Moore avoid captions, sound effects and thought balloons. Lloyd stated in a 2005 interview that "I don't know why I thought of Guy Fawkes, because it was during the summer. I thought that would be great if
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and Waldemar Sorychta, who acted as a keyboardist and producer. Edlund later stated that on "Wildhoney" that he "really did what I wanted to do on "Clouds"". The bird songs on the album were from a sound effects album Edlund had. The album was recorded at Woodhouse Studio. "Wildhoney" was a move away from the death metal sound that was previously heard on their last album "Clouds". "Wildhoney" has been described as their first album where the "psychedelic/progressive influences were more widespread". Edlund looked back on the album later, stating that he was "just a very young guy [who] wanted
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animated series takes place chronologically between the and films of the series of films. Twelve characters are re-created for this animated version, including a team of Academy graduates led by Carey Mahoney, a likeable rogue bachelor boy, who unconsciously—and consistently—does his best to make life miserable for Captain Harris and his knucklehead assistant Sgt. Proctor. Mahoney's friends include the aptly named Moses Hightower, walking sound effects machine Larvell Jones, trigger-happy Eugene Tackleberry, sweet and timid Laverne Hooks, tough-as-nails Debbie Callahan, larger-than-life House, and the bread-&-butter duo of reformed gang member Zed McGlunk and his best buddy, Carl Sweetchuck. Eric Lassard
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won six competitive Academy Awards at the 50th Academy Awards: Best Art Direction, Best Costume Design, Best Film Editing, Best Original Score, Best Sound and Best Visual Effects. A Special Achievement for Sound Effects Editing went to sound designer Ben Burtt and a Scientific and Engineering Award went to John Dykstra for the development of the Dykstraflex Camera (shared with Alvah J. Miller and Jerry Jeffress, who were both granted for the engineering of the Electronic Motion Control System). Additional nominations included Alec Guinness for Best Actor in a Supporting Role, which went to Jason Robards for "Julia" and George
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is named the "Tregoweth Brown Building". Treg Brown Tregoweth Edmond "Treg" Brown (November 4, 1899 in Gilbert, Minnesota, USA – April 28, 1984) was a motion picture sound editor who was responsible for the sound effects in Warner Bros.' "Looney Tunes" and "Merrie Melodies" cartoons from 1936. Before that, he worked with Cecil B. DeMille. Adding to this, he also gave Warner voice actor Mel Blanc his big break. He also won the 1965 Academy Award for Sound Effects for his work on the film "The Great Race". In the Warner Bros. cartoon "One Froggy Evening" (1955), the skyscraper into
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Treg Brown Tregoweth Edmond "Treg" Brown (November 4, 1899 in Gilbert, Minnesota, USA – April 28, 1984) was a motion picture sound editor who was responsible for the sound effects in Warner Bros.' "Looney Tunes" and "Merrie Melodies" cartoons from 1936. Before that, he worked with Cecil B. DeMille. Adding to this, he also gave Warner voice actor Mel Blanc his big break. He also won the 1965 Academy Award for Sound Effects for his work on the film "The Great Race". In the Warner Bros. cartoon "One Froggy Evening" (1955), the skyscraper into which Michigan J. Frog is entombed
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BBC Sound Effects No. 19: Doctor Who Sound Effects BBC Sound Effects No. 19: Doctor Who Sound Effects is a 1978 compilation of sound effects by the BBC Radiophonic Workshop from the BBC science fiction series "Doctor Who". It was the first album in the "BBC Sound Effects" series to feature solely Radiophonic Workshop output and also the first commercial release of an album of the "Doctor Who" sound effects and atmospheres. The effects included came from throughout the show's history, covering both Brian Hodgson and Dick Mills' time recording effects for the programme. Effects that did not appear on
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The back of the vinyl slipcover list the incorrect or misspelt titles for the episodes in which the sound effects come from. Can be seen here on Zaranyzerak's Multimedia Chronicles. BBC Sound Effects No. 19: Doctor Who Sound Effects BBC Sound Effects No. 19: Doctor Who Sound Effects is a 1978 compilation of sound effects by the BBC Radiophonic Workshop from the BBC science fiction series "Doctor Who". It was the first album in the "BBC Sound Effects" series to feature solely Radiophonic Workshop output and also the first commercial release of an album of the "Doctor Who" sound effects
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Sgt. Larvelle "Motor Mouth" Jones in the "Police Academy" series of movies and TV shows. In 1985, Island Records released a 12" of Michael Winslow entitled "I Am My Own Walkman". He also appeared as a radar operator in the movie "Spaceballs", in which he performs all the sound effects during his scene himself. Mel Brooks (who wrote, directed, produced, and co-starred in the film), stated that by doing so, Winslow saved the film money. Winslow is also a motivational speaker. Since the fall of 2008, Winslow has hosted the motion-picture television series called "Way Back Wednesday with Winslow" on
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Richard Hymns Richard Hymns (born July 18, 1947) is a sound editor. He had won 3 Academy Awards in his work on "Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade", "Jurassic Park" and "Saving Private Ryan". On January 24, 2012, he was nominated for an Academy Award for the film "War Horse". He has 9 nominations for Best Sound Editing, making him the most nominated sound editor. https://web.archive.org/web/20090208011732/http://awardsdatabase.oscars.org/ampas_awards/BasicSearchInput.jsp SOUND EDITING FACTS MOST NOMINATIONS AND AWARDS [Note: Special Achievement (Sound Effects Editing) Awards count as both a nomination and award. Prior to the 1963 (36th) Academy Awards, sound editing was honored along with
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members began recording the film's vocal tracks in October 2012 at the Sunset Sound recording studio in Hollywood "before" the songs had been orchestrated, meaning they heard only Lopez's demo piano track in their headphones as they sang. Most of the dialogue was recorded at the Roy E. Disney Animation Building in Burbank under the supervision of original dialogue mixer Gabriel Guy, who also mixed the film's sound effects. Some dialogue was recorded after recording songs at both Sunset Sound and Capitol Studios; for scenes involving Anna and Elsa, both studios offered vocal isolation booths where Menzel and Bell could
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secure the film's $100 million in advertising expenditure. "Inception"s première was held in London on July 8, 2010; it was released in both conventional and IMAX theaters beginning on July 16, 2010. "Inception" grossed over $828 million worldwide, becoming the fourth highest-grossing film of 2010. The home video market also had strong results, with $68 million in DVD and Blu-ray sales. "Inception" opened to acclaim from critics, who praised its screenplay, visual effects, score, and ensemble cast. It won four Academy Awards for Best Cinematography, Best Sound Editing, Best Sound Mixing, and Best Visual Effects, and was nominated for four
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the Academy Award for Best Visual Effects at the 57th Academy Awards. Soundtrack composer John Williams was, as he had been for his work on "Raiders of the Lost Ark", again nominated for Original Music Score. The visual effects crew won the same category at the 38th British Academy Film Awards. Cinematographer Douglas Slocombe, editor Michael Kahn, Ben Burtt and other sound designers at Skywalker Sound received nominations. Spielberg, the writers, Harrison Ford, Jonathan Ke Quan, Anthony Powell and makeup designer Tom Smith were nominated for their work at the Saturn Awards. "Temple of Doom" was nominated for Best Fantasy
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Richard L. Anderson. † = includes special achievement wins. Academy Award for Best Sound Editing The Academy Award for Best Sound Editing is an Academy Award granted yearly to a film exhibiting the finest or most aesthetic sound design or sound editing. Sound editing is the creation of sound effects (such as foley). The award is usually received by the Supervising Sound Editors of the film, sometimes accompanied by the Sound Designers. The nominations process previously took place in two phases. The sound branch of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences shortlisted seven films during the early 1980s
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Academy Award for Best Sound Editing The Academy Award for Best Sound Editing is an Academy Award granted yearly to a film exhibiting the finest or most aesthetic sound design or sound editing. Sound editing is the creation of sound effects (such as foley). The award is usually received by the Supervising Sound Editors of the film, sometimes accompanied by the Sound Designers. The nominations process previously took place in two phases. The sound branch of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences shortlisted seven films during the early 1980s until 2006. Clips were screened at a "bake-off" and
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album was recorded over four days at Trident Studios, London, from 11 to 14 December 1969 with producer John Anthony. Stratton-Smith kept a "hands-off" approach to recording, allowing the band artistic freedom. Drummer Guy Evans recalled that Anthony was "a very good organiser" who recognised Hammill's intelligence and artistic capabilities. Trident had some of the most advanced studio equipment at the time; most of the album was recorded on an 8-track reel-to-reel machine, except for "After the Flood", which used a 16-track. Anthony added sound effects from the BBC sound library at the start of "Darkness" and fed Hammill's voice
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Engineering as well as two Academy Awards for Technical Achievement. Ferren was also nominated for an Oscar for Best Visual Effects for "Little Shop of Horrors", and received a British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA) nomination for special visual effects. He is a voting member of both the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (Oscars), and the Television Academy of Arts and Sciences (Emmys). His entertainment industry projects at Associates & Ferren include: Film Visual Effects, Lighting, Design Film direction Network television Concert Visual Effects Broadway Visual Effects, Projection, Sound Design Ferren led the Disney Imagineering R&D
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unlikely ally in Coyne's strange and mysterious character, a "Martian that lands, but the Martian isn't really perceived as a Martian. People just sort of think he's another crazy guy who's flipped and turned himself green. They can't find a quick replacement for Santa so they just use this Martian guy. So the Martian guy becomes the Martian and Santa Claus at the same time." At the beginning of 2002, over 20 minutes of edited film were ready, with music and preliminary sound effects also completed for these scenes. Most of the movie was shot on 16 mm film, with
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at #15. "Aliens" was nominated for seven Academy Awards including Best Original Score, Best Sound, Best Film Editing, and Best Art Direction. It won two awards for Sound Effects Editing and Visual Effects. Sigourney Weaver received her first Academy Award nomination for Best Actress and although she did not win, it was considered a landmark nomination for an actress to be considered for a science fiction/horror film, a genre which previously was given little recognition. "Aliens" received four BAFTA award nominations and won in the category of Visual Effects. It won eight Saturn Awards in the film categories of actress
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Bazile, Philippe's deputy." In 1999 he was made police chief of Cap-Haïtien. On 15 January 2000, Guy Philippe and his wife had a daughter named Aïsha. Following October 2000 accusations of participation in a coup plot and his subsequent removal from his post as police chief of Cap-Haïtien, Philippe fled to the Dominican Republic. While there he recruited ex-military and others forming a paramilitary organization, which received training from the U.S. Government. The Haitian government accused Philippe of masterminding a deadly attack on the Police Academy in July 2001 and of an attempted coup in December 2001. In July 2003,
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in both the top ten and No.1 lists only behind "The Social Network" and was one of the most critically acclaimed films of 2010, alongside the former, "Toy Story 3", "The King's Speech", and "Black Swan". The film won many awards in technical categories, such as Academy Awards for Best Cinematography, Best Sound Editing, Best Sound Mixing, and Best Visual Effects, and the British Academy Film Awards for Best Production Design, Best Special Visual Effects and Best Sound. In most of its artistic nominations, such as Film, Director, and Screenplay at the Oscars, BAFTAs and Golden Globes, the film was
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the first "Star Wars" (now known as "Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope") in 1977, science-fiction films tended to use electronic-sounding effects for futuristic devices. Burtt sought a more natural sound, blending in "found sounds" to create the effects. The lightsaber hum, for instance, was derived from a film projector idling combined with feedback from a broken television set, and the blaster effect started with the sound acquired from hitting a guy-wire on a radio tower with a hammer. He is personally responsible for some of the sounds heard in films. In the "Star Wars" series, part of R2-D2's
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and 10 in total. It was the highest-grossing film of 2006 in Australia, Bulgaria, Germany, Japan, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Spain, Sweden and Thailand. At the 79th Academy Awards, visual effects supervisors John Knoll, Hal Hickel, Charles Gibson, and Allen Hall won an Oscar for Best Visual Effects, which was also the first time since 1994's "Forrest Gump" that Industrial Light & Magic had received that particular Academy Award. The film was also nominated for Best Art Direction, Sound Editing, and Sound Mixing. The film also won a BAFTA and Satellite award for Best Visual Effects, and six awards from
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BBC Sound Effects No. 26: Sci-Fi Sound Effects BBC Sound Effects No. 26: Sci-Fi Sound Effects is a 1981 compilation of sound effects and atmospheres created by the BBC Radiophonic Workshop. It was the second in the BBC Sound Effects series to be credited to the Workshop. It featured sounds from popular television series "Doctor Who" (all from Season 18) and "Blake's 7", as well as effects for the first series of the radio versions of Douglas Adams' "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" and James Follett's "Earthsearch". In 1991 it was re-released on CD as "Essential Science Fiction Sound
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the New Jersey Hall of Fame. The Golden Door Film Festival gives an award named in her honor. In 2017, the documentary film "Be Natural", by Pamela B. Green, dealt with Guy-Blaché's life. Alice Guy-Blaché Alice Guy-Blaché (July 1, 1873 – March 24, 1968) was a pioneer filmmaker, active from the late 19th century, and one of the first to make a narrative fiction film. From 1896 to 1906 she was probably the only female filmmaker in the world. She experimented with Gaumont's Chronophone sound syncing system, color tinting, interracial casting, and special effects. She was a founder and artistic
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more difficult for Lord. It was just "G-Men" that used only FBI cases and was subject to Hoover's whims and restrictions. "Gang Busters" featured interesting and dramatic crimes from the files of law enforcement organizations all over the country. "G-Men" was on NBC Radio from July 20 to October 12, 1935, sponsored by Chevrolet. The "sequel," "Gang Busters", debuted in mid-January, 1936. If anything, the opening sound effects became even more elaborate and aggressive. The show opened with a barrage of blaring sound effects – a shrill police whistle, convicts marching in formation, police siren wailing, machine guns firing, and
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called it 'Stupid Guy,' but we thought another song about a strident female dissing a guy would be tedious." Garbage wanted to write a song that incorporated a very thumpy and repetitive bass line; this would act as a hook. Continuing to develop the demo throughout the recording process for what would eventually become the band's debut album, the group decided to add textures, guitars, and keys to make "Stupid Girl" dynamic rather than built on complicated chord changes. Marker and Vig then added in elements of ambient sound effects throughout the audio mix; including the "glitchy" sound of a
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for listeners to "absorb the beats and focus in on Aaron Hall". He felt that the band "sound[s] like almost arrogantly anonymous light funksters" and found Riley and Hall underwhelming as soul singers, but stated, "where Bobby Brown and Al B. Sure! play the love man falsetto straight, Hall adds depth by straying toward the manly emotionalism of the church. And unlike most light funksters, Riley doesn't aspire to slow ones." John Leland of "Spin" viewed "Guy" as exemplary of contemporary new jack swing albums, which he felt all sound "low-budget, without effects or orchestra, but yet they're very sophisticated".
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iteration of the Evolution Fighting Game Tournament with Floe playing. I Wanna Be the Guy I Wanna Be the Guy: The Movie: The Game (IWBTG) is a 2D platform indie freeware video game, created by Michael "Kayin" O'Reilly for Microsoft Windows using Multimedia Fusion 2. First released on October 5, 2007, the game is no longer in active development, though the game's source code was released by Kayin in 2011. "IWBTG" is mostly known for its unusually difficult platforming elements, unorthodox level design, and its utilization of sound effects, characters and music from many other games. The player controls "The
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I Wanna Be the Guy I Wanna Be the Guy: The Movie: The Game (IWBTG) is a 2D platform indie freeware video game, created by Michael "Kayin" O'Reilly for Microsoft Windows using Multimedia Fusion 2. First released on October 5, 2007, the game is no longer in active development, though the game's source code was released by Kayin in 2011. "IWBTG" is mostly known for its unusually difficult platforming elements, unorthodox level design, and its utilization of sound effects, characters and music from many other games. The player controls "The Kid". The controls are limited to left/right movement, jumping, double-jumping
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for Best Sound Effects Editing (Charles L. Campbell and Louis Edemann), Best Visual Effects and Best Film Editing. Other nominations included Best Art Direction (Art Direction: Elliot Scott; Set Decoration: Peter Howitt), Best Cinematography and Best Sound (Robert Knudson, John Boyd, Don Digirolamo and Tony Dawe). Richard Williams received a Special Achievement Academy Award "for animation direction and creation of the cartoon characters". "Roger Rabbit" won the Saturn Award for Best Fantasy Film, as well as Best Direction for Zemeckis and Special Visual Effects. Hoskins, Lloyd, and Cassidy were nominated for their performances, while Alan Silvestri and the screenwriters received
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SoundStorm (company) SoundStorm was an independent audio post-production and sound editorial company based in Burbank, California. It provided post-production sound design, sound editing and ADR in Hollywood. The editors recorded their sound effect library from 1984 to 2004, worked on more than eighty feature films, and earned a number of awards and nominations from the Academy Awards, Emmy Awards, British Academy Film Awards and Golden Reel Awards. In 2004, the company was dissolved and sold its assets; Soundogs.com Inc. acquired the trademark and complete archive of the SoundStorm sound effects library. SoundStorm was founded in 1984 by Gordon Ecker as
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Doom", he went on to do sound design for the comedy "Spaceballs". The sound design for "Backdraft", prepared from scratch, would become the precursor for his sound for "". The original sound effects from "Backdraft" are constantly referenced and have been used for numerous other films including "The Lord of the Rings" film trilogy and "Shrek". Gary won an Academy Award for his work on "Terminator 2: Judgment Day", for which he pioneered techniques still used today for creating realistic sound effects. Rydstrom also worked with "Terminator 2" director James Cameron on a new 5.1 surround mix for the original
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on film stock, expanding to venues using digital projectors. The film had a worldwide gross of over $677 million, making it the tenth-highest-grossing film of 2014. "Interstellar" received critical praise for its themes, visual effects, musical score, and acting. At the 87th Academy Awards, the film won the Academy Award for Best Visual Effects, and was nominated for Best Original Score, Best Sound Mixing, Best Sound Editing and Best Production Design. In the mid-21st century, crop blights and dust storms threaten humanity's survival. Joseph Cooper, a widowed engineer and former NASA pilot, runs a farm with his father-in-law Donald, son
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is what happened in that situation. So why are so many people dying in police custody? And why are they all black? And why are all the police killing them white? What is that? The police have always said, 'I feared for my safety.' Well, now we know. OK. You feared for your safety while a guy was running away from you, right?" Morgan Freeman has been nominated for an Academy Award "and" the Golden Globe Award five different times, each time for the same film for each award. He won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor on "Million
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sound effects to a collection of different film clips in a piece called "Elements and Motion". A video of these movie clips was shown behind the forty person choir, as they performed in Kodak Theater. Although much praise was given to this particular performance, it has received some criticism of not reaching the high expectations set in any Academy Award festival. The Honda Civic television advertisement that the Sound Effects choir was featured in won the Gold Lion award in the Cannes Lions International Advertising Festival, generally regarded as the most prestigious international advertising festival. The advertisement was a contender
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to his technical know-how, he managed to bring to the position new methods of recording sound effects quicker than before. Besides his sound effects on "Doctor Who", he also produced and compiled the first of the programme's music compilations, "Doctor Who - The Music" and "Doctor Who - The Music II". Over the years, many of his own sound effects have also appeared on various compilations. Other sound effects he provided included material for the cult series "Moonbase 3", produced in 1973 by then-"Doctor Who" producer Barry Letts, and also occasionally sounds for "The Two Ronnies". Mills' work was acknowledged
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with the Academy Award for Best Sound Editing. There are primarily three divisions of sound that are combined to create a final mix, these being dialogue, effects, and music. In larger markets such as New York and Los Angeles, sound editors often specialize in only one of these areas, thus a show will have separate dialogue, effects, and music editors. In smaller markets, sound editors are expected to know how to handle it all, often crossing over into the mixing realm as well. Editing effects is likened to creating the sonic world from scratch, while dialogue editing is likened to
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2016. The film is scored by Chris Wright, who also composed the score for Drummond's debut feature, Dinosaur Island (2014). Sound mix was completed by the Academy Award winning Peter Purcell, known for . Visual effects were completed by Hive Studios International, with Drummond acting as Visual effects supervisor. The theatrical trailer was released exclusively via Hollywood Reporter on 13 January 2017 to positive reviews, with commentary from Dread Central stating, My Pet Dinosaur was "...The best movie Spielberg never made..." and HR billing it as, "E.T. meets Pixar." The film was distributed widely in Australian cinemas on 22 April
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by the Walt Disney Studios for nearly four years until it was surpassed by "Toy Story 3" (2010). The film received Academy Award nominations for Best Art Direction, Sound Editing, Sound Mixing, and won the Academy Award for Best Visual Effects. Its sequel, "At World's End", was released the following year. The wedding of Will Turner and Elizabeth Swann is halted when Lord Cutler Beckett, chairman of the East India Trading Company, arrives with arrest warrants for them, and also for Commodore James Norrington, who allowed Captain Jack Sparrow to escape. Norrington has resigned and disappeared after losing the Navy's
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nominated for an Academy Award for Best Documentary Short Subject, but lost to "". Special Effects: Anything Can Happen Special Effects: Anything Can Happen is an American documentary film directed by Academy Award-winning sound designer Ben Burtt and narrated by John Lithgow. It was released to IMAX theaters in 1996. This documentary film is an exploration of special effects techniques used in motion pictures, including traditional special effects up to modern computer generated effects. It is also notable for featuring the making of the new digital effects created for the special edition version of "Star Wars Episode IV: A New
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50th Academy Awards The 50th Academy Awards were held at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion in Los Angeles, California on April 3, 1978. The ceremonies were presided over by Bob Hope, who hosted the awards for the nineteenth and last time. Two of the year's biggest winners were "Star Wars", which swept the technical categories by winning 6 out of its 10 nominations and a Special Achievement for Sound Effects Editing, and "Annie Hall", winning 4 out of 5 nominations, including Best Picture, Best Actress and Best Director. The awards show was also notable for a very politically charged acceptance speech
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the murder and informs the police. Guy catches up to Bruno and they fight on the park's carousel. Thinking Guy is trying to escape, a police officer shoots at him, but misses and kills the carousel operator, causing the carousel to spin out of control. Eventually a carnival worker crawls under the fast-moving carousel and stops it, causing it to crash and mortally injure Bruno. The worker who recognized Bruno tells the police chief that he has never seen Guy before. Guy tells the police that Bruno was attempting to plant his lighter at the murder scene. As Bruno dies,
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received five nominations at the 90th Academy Awards, winning Best Cinematography and Best Visual Effects. It received eight nominations at the 71st British Academy Film Awards, including Best Director, winning Best Cinematography and Best Special Visual Effects. In 2049, replicants (described as "bioengineered humans") are slaves. K, a replicant, works for the Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) as a "blade runner", an officer who hunts and "retires" (kills) rogue replicants. At a protein farm, he retires Sapper Morton and finds a box buried under a tree. The box contains the remains of a female replicant who died during a caesarean
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me to shut the fuck up, so that was the end of that talk." The film received four Academy Award nominations at the 71st Academy Awards, for Best Sound (Kevin O'Connell, Greg P. Russell and Keith A. Wester), Best Visual Effects, Best Sound Effects Editing, and Best Original Song ("I Don't Want to Miss a Thing" performed by Aerosmith). The film received the Saturn Awards for Best Direction and Best Science Fiction Film (where it tied with "Dark City"). It was also nominated for seven Razzie Awards including: Worst Actor (Bruce Willis), Worst Picture, Worst Director, Worst Screenplay, Worst Supporting
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Alice Guy-Blaché Alice Guy-Blaché (July 1, 1873 – March 24, 1968) was a pioneer filmmaker, active from the late 19th century, and one of the first to make a narrative fiction film. From 1896 to 1906 she was probably the only female filmmaker in the world. She experimented with Gaumont's Chronophone sound syncing system, color tinting, interracial casting, and special effects. She was a founder and artistic director of the Solax Studios in Flushing, New York, in 1908. In 1912 Solax invested $100,000 for a new studio in Fort Lee, New Jersey, the center of American filmmaking prior to the
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innovative use of stereo and sound effects, was handled by Terry Jones and Michael Palin and proved a technical challenge. According to Jones: "We had this horrendous time because we were recording in this rather hippy recording studio which fortunately I can't remember the name of. ... We were very keen to use the stereo and everything, but what we hadn't realised was that the guy who was doing the recording, who I think was out of his head most of the time, had not been making any notes. We'd end up with tapes and tapes of material with no
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for three Academy Awards, including Visual Effects (Pablo Helman), Sound Mixing (Andy Nelson, Anna Behlmer and Ron Judkins), and Sound Editing, losing all to "King Kong". The film was nominated for six Saturn Awards, and won Best Performance by a Younger Actor (Dakota Fanning). The film won a Golden Reel Award for Sound Effects & Foley, a World Soundtrack Award for Best Original Soundtrack, and three VES Awards for its special effects, and was nominated for three Empire Awards, three Satellite Awards, and an MTV Movie Award. War of the Worlds (2005 film) War of the Worlds is a 2005
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although the Academy honored the film's sound effects editing with a Special Achievement Award (Frank Warner). At the 32nd British Academy Film Awards, "Close Encounters" won Best Production Design, and was nominated for Best Film, Direction, Screenplay, Actor in a Supporting Role (François Truffaut), Music, Cinematography, Editing, and Sound. "Close Encounters" lost the Hugo Award for Best Dramatic Presentation to "Star Wars", but was successful at the Saturn Awards. There, the film tied with "Star Wars" for Direction and Music. Spielberg's screenplay, Richard Dreyfuss, Melinda Dillon and the visual effects department received nominations. "Close Encounters" was nominated for Best Science
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Technicolor feature with sound (including a synchronized score and sound effects, but no spoken dialogue). With the arrival of talkies, MGM moved slowly and reluctantly into sound, releasing features like "White Shadows in the South Seas" with music and sound effects, and "Alias Jimmy Valentine" with limited dialogue sequences. Their first full-fledged talkie, the musical "The Broadway Melody" in 1929, however, was both a box-office success and won the Academy Award as Best Picture of the Year; and brought MGM into the sound era. MGM, however, was the very last studio to convert to "talkies" with its first all-color, "all-talking"
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clocking in at just under 30 minutes could require up to 300 effects. Accuracy was underlined: The exact number of footsteps from one room to another at Los Angeles police headquarters were mimicked, and when a telephone rang at Friday's desk, the listener heard the same ring as the telephones in Los Angeles police headquarters. A single minute of ".22 Rifle for Christmas" is a representative example of the evocative sound effects featured on "Dragnet". While Friday and others investigate bloodstains in a suburban backyard, the listener hears a series of overlapping effects: a squeaking gate hinge, footsteps, a technician
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"naturalism" relying on natural sounds that would be heard by the characters. "One of Our Aircraft is Missing" was cut by 20 minutes for its original American release. "One of Our Aircraft is Missing" received two Academy Award nominations, Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger for Best Writing, Original Screenplay, and Ronald Neame (photography) and C. C. Stevens (sound) for Best Effects, Special Effects. Powell's nomination was the only Academy Award nomination he ever received in his career – Pressburger won an Academy Award for "49th Parallel" and was nominated for "The Red Shoes" as well. "One of Our Aircraft Is
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The film was met with a mixed critical reception. It currently holds a 52% rating on Rotten Tomatoes based on 21 reviews. "Black Rain" was nominated for the Academy Awards for Best Sound (Donald O. Mitchell, Kevin O'Connell, Greg P. Russell and Keith A. Wester) and Best Sound Effects Editing. (Milton Burrow and William Manger) Black Rain (1989 American film) Black Rain is a 1989 American action thriller film directed by Ridley Scott, starring Michael Douglas, Andy García, Ken Takakura, and Kate Capshaw. The story centers on two NYPD officers who arrest a member of the Yakuza and must escort
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Bernard B. Brown Bernard B. Brown (July 24, 1898 – February 20, 1981) was an American sound engineer and composer, who wrote the scores for many early animated cartoons produced by Leon Schlesinger Productions for distribution by Warner Bros. Pictures. He won an Academy Award in the category Sound Recording and was nominated for seven more in the same category. He was also nominated three times in the category Best Visual Effects. He worked on more than 520 films between 1930 and 1958. In 1933, animation producer Leon Schlesinger set up his new animation studio: Leon Schlesinger Productions. The company
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for a 2013 Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature. Christopher Barnett (Sound Designer at Skywalker Sound) won the 2014 Golden Reel Award for Best Sound Editing: Sound Effects, Foley, Dialogue, ADR and Music in a Feature Documentary, given by the Motion Picture Sound Editors society. Dirty Wars Dirty Wars is a 2013 American documentary film, which accompanies the book "Dirty Wars: The World Is a Battlefield" by Jeremy Scahill. The film is directed by Richard Rowley, and written by Scahill and David Riker. Production for the film began in 2010 when Scahill, who worked as a reporter for "The Nation"
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scene had included the doctor on the film undoing his zipper after discussing the patient's health problems. The edited version cut away before the doctor could undo his zipper, but the sound can still be heard when it cuts back to Chris and his friends watching the porno. Another scene edited was a naked Peter shown crouched on top of Lois's head (attempting ear sex) (even though it was shown on Adult Swim every time the episode repeats). On the TV version, Peter is still naked, but it is implied (through sound effects) that Lois forcibly pushed him to the
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Technology Management. In 2000, Jamias was the subject of a film, "Barako ng Maynila", (fearless / tough guy of Manila) inspired by his law enforcement career; Jamias was portrayed by Jinggoy Estrada, son of former Philippine president Joseph Estrada, and the film was directed by Toto Natividad. Elmer Jamias Elmer Mejorada Jamias (b. 1961) also known as Barako ng Maynila (fearless / tough guy of Manila), is a Filipino police officer. As of June 14, 2017, he is Deputy Director of the Directorate of Information and Communication Technology Management. Jamias graduated with the Philippine National Police Academy Class of 1986.
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Electronic music and noises illustrated the work of the computer that deciphers the alien message, the message itself, and the eerie landscape of Venus devastated by the nuclear catastrophe. Markowski, who produced the musical score, was assisted by sound engineer Krzysztof Szlifirski from the Experimental Studio of Polish Radio, with some sound effects added at the laboratory of the Military Academy of Technology in Warsaw and with post-production at DEFA. When first released to European cinemas, the film sold 4,375,094 tickets. In a retrospective on Soviet science fiction film, British director Alex Cox compared "First Spaceship on Venus" to the
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Sound, Ripe, Rob Nokes Horse Racing Collection, Sonic Science, Sound Ideas SFX, Sound HOG, Sound Label, Sonospheres, Sounddogs, Soundminer, The Anarchist Cookbook, The Recordist, Tomahawk Films, Trak Works, Valentino, and Zak Sound. In November 2004, Rob Nokes acquired the sound library and trademark of SoundStorm, a sound editorial company nominated for eight Academy Awards. SoundStorm's corporate predecessor was a company called Walla Works, which had employed the founding partners of Soundelux, another sound editorial company. On November 17, 2014 the Todd-Soundelux Trademarks (Todd AO and Soundelux) and Copyrights (Sound Effects Library) were also acquired in Federal Bankruptcy Court by Rob
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Special Effects: Nathan Levinson Nathan Levinson (July 15, 1888 – October 18, 1952) was an American sound engineer. He won an Oscar in the category Sound Recording for the film "Yankee Doodle Dandy" and was nominated for 16 more in the same category. He was also nominated seven times in the category Best Special Effects. The Oscar statue that Levinson won for "Yankee Doodle Dandy" was sold for nearly $90,000 at an auction in Dallas in July 2011. Levinson won an Academy Award and was nominated for 16 more in the category Best Sound. He was also nominated seven times
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Zeppelin Meets The Wild Bunch". The film is probably too much for young children and possibly too much of the same for cynics. But any 6–13-year-old who sees this may be bitten by the "movie bug" for life." At the Academy Awards, the film was nominated for Sound Effects Editing and Visual Effects, but lost both to "Who Framed Roger Rabbit", which was similarly done by Industrial Light & Magic. It won Best Costume Design at the Saturn Awards, where it was also nominated for Warwick Davis for Best Performance by a Younger Actor (lost to Fred Savage for "Vice
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to positive reviews and was a box office success. It is the forty-fifth highest-grossing film and the fifth highest-grossing film of 2007, grossing approximately $709 million worldwide. The film won four awards from the Visual Effects Society and was nominated for three Academy Awards, for Best Sound Editing, Best Sound Mixing, and Best Visual Effects. The performance of Shia Labeouf was praised by "Empire", and Peter Cullen's reprisal of Optimus Prime from the 1980s was well received by fans. A sequel, "", was released on June 24, 2009. Despite mostly negative reviews, it was a commercial success and grossed more
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Guy W. S. Castle Guy W. S. Castle (February 8, 1879 – August 10, 1919) was an officer of the United States Navy who received the Medal of Honor for his actions during the United States occupation, of Veracruz, Mexico, in 1914. Guy Wilkinson Stuart Castle was born in Portage, Wisconsin, on 8 February 1879 or 8 February 1880. He was appointed a naval cadet at the United States Naval Academy in Annapolis, Maryland, on 20 May 1897. While at the Naval Academy, Castle was nicknamed "Hoot," "Pub," or "Jim," and came to be nicknamed "the Great Stone Face." He
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stages, after which all composition duties of "Crash Bandicoot" and Naughty Dog's subsequent six titles were delegated to Mancell. Mouse on Mars, A Guy Called Gerald, Aphex Twin and Juan Atkins served as influences on Mancell's "simple but kind of off-kilter" melodies. Dave Baggett served as the soundtrack's producer. The sound effects were created by Mike Gollom, Ron Horwitz and Kevin Spears of Universal Sound Studios. The voices in the game were provided by Brendan O'Brien. In a continuing attempt by Universal Interactive to take credit for "Crash Bandicoot", Naughty Dog was told that it was not "allowed" to go
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grossing $709 million worldwide, with an estimated 46 million tickets sold in the US. The film won four awards from the Visual Effects Society and was nominated for three Academy Awards, for Best Sound Editing, Best Sound Mixing, and Best Visual Effects. LaBeouf's performance was praised by "Empire", and Cullen's reprisal of Optimus Prime from the 1980s television series was well received by fans. It was soon followed by four sequels and a prequel: "" (2009), "" (2011), "" (2014), and "" (2017). A sixth installment titled, "Bumblebee", serving as both a spin-off and aforementioned prequel, will be released on
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several banks on a list composed by Pierpont and Makley, and with that money, help finance the escape. On December 29, 1930, Pierpont was among a group of 12 men, led by Joseph Burns, who overpowered guard Guy Burklow and barricaded the doors of their cell block to prevent guards from entering. Pierpont let himself out of his cell with a homemade key. Burklow was able to sound the alarm, and a combined group of city police, fireman and guards were able to force the inmates to surrender. Burns had fashioned a key from a spoon, allowing the inmates to
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While London Sleeps While London Sleeps is a 1926 Warner Bros. film about a police-dog, Rinty, who helps Scotland Yard defeat a dangerous criminal organisation known as the Mediterranean Brotherhood that operates out of the Limehouse district of London. Walter Morosco wrote the screenplay. It was the first of many films directed by Howard Bretherton, and one of several created for Rin Tin Tin, a German Shepherd dog used in films during the 1920s and 1930s. The film was also released with a Vitaphone sound-on-disc soundtrack with a music score and sound effects. Inspector Burke of Scotland Yard concentrates all
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the visual effects and action sequences. The American Film Institute selected the film as one of the ten best of the year. It was also nominated for two Academy Awards for Best Sound Editing and Best Visual Effects. Two sequels, "Iron Man 2" and "Iron Man 3", were released on May 7, 2010, and May 3, 2013, respectively. Genius, billionaire, playboy and philanthropist Tony Stark, who has inherited the defense contractor Stark Industries from his father, is in war-torn Afghanistan with his friend and military liaison Lieutenant Colonel James Rhodes to demonstrate the new "Jericho" missile. After the demonstration, the
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building in the world and firefighters' attempts at rescuing occupants trapped on the top floor. The film was nominated for eight Academy Awards including Best Picture, winning for Best Cinematography, Best Film Editing and Original Song. "Earthquake" was also honored with four Academy Award nominations for its impressive special effects of a massive earthquake leveling the city of Los Angeles, winning for Best Sound and receiving a Special Achievement Award for visual effects. The film was directed by Mark Robson and starred Charlton Heston, Ava Gardner, Geneviève Bujold, George Kennedy and Lorne Greene. It was noted as the first film
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Festival. The film was nominated for three Academy Awards, Best Sound (Michael Minkler, Bob Beemer, and Tim Cooney), Best Sound Effects Editing (Gregg Baxter), and Best Visual Effects all losing to "Jurassic Park". The film received a 65% approval rating on Rotten Tomatoes based on 52 reviews, with an average rating of 6.2/10. The website's critical consensus reads, "While it can't escape comparisons to the movies it borrows from, "Cliffhanger" is a tense, action-packed thriller and a showcase for the talents that made Sylvester Stallone a star." It was nominated for Worst Picture, Worst Supporting Actor (John Lithgow), Worst Supporting
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days a week at the Garden Grove Police Department trying to learn how to be a cop, but he needed a full-time position. During that time, however, Garden Grove P.D. had a hiring freeze. Ladd started applying everywhere. One of his arrest and control tactical officers during his time in the academy was a guy from the Huntington Beach Police Department named Barry Case. Case had started his career at the Compton Police Department and Ladd could tell the man loved his time there from the war stories he told. Case had advised Ladd and others in the academy that
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for survival. The song features some sound effects, including the sound of breaking glass and a police siren. The band were recording "British Steel" at Tittenhurst Park, which was the home of The Beatles's drummer Ringo Starr. For the breaking glass effect, the band used milk bottles that a milkman brought them in the morning, and the police siren was actually guitarist K. K. Downing using the tremolo arm on his Stratocaster. Directed by Julien Temple, the video starts with vocalist Rob Halford singing from the back of a 1974 Cadillac Fleetwood Eldorado convertible travelling along on the Westway section
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in a cupboard and met the other actors only after the first session was complete. Sound and effects were created by Paddy Kingsland, Dick Mills and Harry Parker of the BBC Radiophonic Workshop. Several of the sound effects recorded by Dick Mills for the first series were released on the album "BBC Sound Effects No. 26 – Sci-Fi Sound Effects". Other BBC staff members who worked on the first two radio series included Alick Hale-Munro (chief sound engineer) and Anne Ling (production secretary) and the "Technical Team" is given as: Paul Hawdon, Lisa Braun (studio manager), Colin Duff (studio manager),
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on September 30, 2016. It received generally positive reviews and grossed over $121 million worldwide. The film was nominated for two Oscars at the 89th Academy Awards: Best Sound Editing and Best Visual Effects, and a BAFTA Award for Best Sound at the 70th British Academy Film Awards. On April 20, 2010, "Deepwater Horizon", an oil drilling rig operated by private contractor Transocean, is set to begin drilling off the southern coast of Louisiana on behalf of BP. Chief Electronics Technician Michael "Mike" Williams (Mark Wahlberg) and Offshore Installation Manager James "Mr. Jimmy" Harrell (Kurt Russell) are surprised to learn
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company Bay Films, with a two-picture deal with Disney. In 1998, Bay collaborated with Jerry Bruckheimer again, this time as a co-producer, as well as directing the action-adventure film "Armageddon". The film, about a group of tough oil drillers who are sent by NASA to deflect an asteroid away from a collision course with Earth, starred Bruce Willis, Billy Bob Thornton, Ben Affleck and Liv Tyler. It was nominated for 4 Oscars at the 71st Academy Awards including Best Sound, Best Visual Effects, Best Sound Editing, and Best Original Song. The film earned 9.6 million dollars on its opening day
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becoming 2005's fourth most successful film both domestically and worldwide, with $234 million in North America, and $591 million overall. The film earned three Academy Awards nominations for Best Visual Effects, Best Sound Mixing, and Best Sound Editing. An opening narration based on the opening of Wells' novel explains that humans were unaware that a race of extraterrestrials was making plans to occupy Earth. Ray Ferrier is a charming but self-absorbed crane operator longshoreman who works at a dock in Brooklyn, New York and lives in Bayonne, New Jersey. Ray is estranged from his children. His ex-wife, Mary Ann, later
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Awards for which it was nominated: Best Sound Editing, Best Sound Mixing, and Best Visual Effects (at the same ceremony, Spielberg, editor Michael Kahn, and composer John Williams won Academy Awards for "Schindler's List"). The film won honors outside the U.S. including the 1994 BAFTA for Best Special Effects, as well as the Award for the Public's Favorite Film. It won the 1994 Hugo Award for Best Dramatic Presentation, and the 1993 Saturn Awards for Best Science Fiction Film, Best Direction, Best Writing for Crichton and Koepp and Best Special Effects. The film won the 1993 People's Choice Awards for
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critics, which indicates "generally favorable reviews". Audiences polled by CinemaScore gave the film an average grade of "A+" on an A+ to F scale. Some critics have ranked the film on respective lists of the all-time best Christmas films as the following: The film was nominated for four Academy Awards: Best Sound Effects Editing (Stephen Hunter Flick and Richard Shorr), Best Film Editing, Best Sound (Don J. Bassman, Kevin F. Cleary, Richard Overton and Al Overton, Jr.) and Best Visual Effects (Richard Edlund, Al Di Sarro, Brent Boates and Thaine Morris.) Michael Kamen's score earned him a BMI TV/Film Music
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Overrated". "Gravity" was ranked second on Metacritic's Film Critic Top Ten List scorecard for 2013: it appeared on 93 critic's lists, 22 of whom named it their best film of the year. "Gravity" received ten nominations at the 86th Academy Awards; together with "American Hustle" it received the greatest number of nominations for the 2014 ceremony, including Best Picture, Best Actress for Bullock, and Best Production Design. The film won the most of the night with seven Academy Awards: for Best Director, Best Cinematography, Best Visual Effects, Best Film Editing, Best Original Score, Best Sound Editing, and Best Sound Mixing.
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that "" failed to inspire. "The Matrix" seemed fresh and cool and visually breathtaking; making wonderful, intelligent use of CGI to augment the on-screen action, striking a perfect balance of the real and the hyperreal. It was possibly the coolest film I had ever seen." Quentin Tarantino counted "The Matrix" as one of his twenty favourite movies from 1992 to 2009. "The Matrix" received Academy Awards for film editing, sound effects editing, visual effects, and sound. The filmmakers were competing against other films with established franchises, like "", yet they won all four of their nominations. "The Matrix" also received
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part of its sound effects (in addition to game-generated sound effects), which ran in a continuous loop while the game was played. Contrary to claims on various websites (for example, Killer List of Video Games), this is not actual police chatter, and this becomes more and more apparent as the chatter goes on, as the voices ham it up more and more, as well as directly taunt the player. Similar tape loops were used in some of Pacific Novelty's other games: "NATO Defense" and "Shark Attack". Thief (arcade game) Thief is a 1981 arcade video game that is extremely similar
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spaceship, the TARDIS does remarkably little flying. The ability to travel simply by fading into and out of different locations became one of the trademarks of the show, allowing for a great deal of versatility in setting and storytelling without a large expense in special effects. The distinctive accompanying sound effect – a cyclic wheezing, groaning noise – was originally created in the BBC Radiophonic Workshop by Brian Hodgson. When employed in the series, the sound is usually synchronised with the flashing light on top of the police box, or the fade-in and fade-out effects of a TARDIS (see "Controls"
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Pictures in a number of capacities including character design, storyboards, layouts, voices and sound effects. In 1995, Bertino was nominated for an Academy Award for best achievement in visual effects and received a BAFTA nomination in the same category, for the groundbreaking computer graphics imagery he created in "The Mask". In 2005, Bertino left ILM and became the Director of the Graduate Department of the School of Animation at the Academy of Art University in San Francisco. "HBO First Look" Tom Bertino Tom Bertino is a professional animator, formerly Animation Director and Visual Effects Supervisor at Industrial Light & Magic.
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Sci Fi Channel miniseries "Frank Herbert's Dune". They were awarded an Academy Award in 2006 for achievement in makeup for "". After establishing himself in the special effects arena, Kurtzman turned to directing and producing. His first project was "From Dusk till Dawn", for which he wrote the original story, served as co-producer, and created the special effects. "The Demolitionist" marked Kurtzman’s directorial debut. He went on to direct "Wishmaster", in which he had an uncredited cameo as "piano wire guy". In 2002, Kurtzman left K.N.B. EFX Group. Kurtzman and his wife, Anne, relocated their family to Crestline, Ohio, and
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Connor and prevent him from becoming the leader of the human resistance. A second, less advanced Terminator (Schwarzenegger) is also sent back in time to protect John. "Terminator 2: Judgement Day" was released in the United States on July 3, 1991. Its visual effects saw breakthroughs in computer-generated imagery, including the first use of natural human motion for a computer-generated character and the first partially computer-generated main character. It was a critical and commercial success and influenced popular culture, especially the use of visual effects in films. It received several accolades, including Academy Awards for Best Sound Editing, Best Sound
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