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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...
...Catered Affair (MGM) is another Bronx cheer, more affectionate than derisive, for the marital problems of the lower middle class. Like the Oscar-winning Marty (TIME, April 18, 1955), the film was originally a TV play by Paddy Chayefsky, the troubadour of the tenements, and it has much the same shirtsleeved intimacy and gamy humor...
...Tribute to a Bad Man (MGM...
...Meet Me in Las Vegas (MGM...