In cinema, they say, the craft is at its best when it cannot be noticed. Weird, but makes sense. Essentially, filmmaking is the medium of replicating life, from real to reel. The less you can spot the ...

As Joanna Fang of New York–based Alchemy Post Sound puts it, Foley art is “basically the human element of a soundtrack.” These are sounds too specific to an individual performance to be pulled from a ...

In 1927, the first talkie, called The Jazz Singer, swept the nation and revolutionized movies. Unfortunately, Universal Studios didn’t get the memo — they’d just completed Show Boat, which was to be a ...