Word: mgm
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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American listeners have a chance to feast their ears on their native brand of electronic composition on the sound track of MGM's science-fiction extravaganza, Forbidden Planet (TIME, April 9). Composed and recorded by Manhattan's husband-and-wife team, Louis and Bebe Barron, it could hardly sound more appropriate. Its basic elements are a kind of trickling-water sound; a zipping effect, as if somebody were running his thumbnail along a comb; a high, ominous thrumming, something like the sound telegraph wires make when the pole is struck; a frightful, featureless roaring; and an effect that...
...Then they combined it with others, recorded the resulting series of sounds on tape, and edited it to fit. They refuse to consider their compositions music, partly because they cannot be sure before the tape is finished just what it will sound like. Their sound track was delivered to MGM at approximately the same price the studio would have paid for a composed and recorded symphonic score...
...Tribute to a Bad Man (MGM...
...Meet Me in Las Vegas (MGM...
Invitation to the Dance (MGM) is the first feature-length ballet film that ever came out of Hollywood. It is also one of the few times since the movies found voice that the moviegoer has been offered a picture without dialogue. Indeed, the absence of what passes for human speech in most movie scripts will probably attract more customers to this show than the presence of well-known dancers (Igor Youskevitch, Tamara Toumanova, Claire Sombert, Diana Adams, Belita, Carol Haney, Tommy Rail), who do not get much chance to strut their stuff...