Word: soundmen
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...eight days of tough practice and preparation. Sets representing scenes in an upstate New York home, in Manhattan and in London were ranged in a circle around a cluster of cameras, microphone booms and cables. Overhead glared a battery of lights. In and around the sets moved actors, cameramen, soundmen, stagehands, assistant directors and a stage manager in a reasonable facsimile of confusion. From the control booth, Director Seymour Kulik barked commands to his headset-wearing assistants as the actors, electricians and cameramen annoyingly muffed their cues. The play was To Each His Own, adapted from the 1946 movie that...
...Formosa Strait. Through the choppy waters, the U.S.S. Higbee, a 2,425-ton radar-picket destroyer, steamed cautiously on patrol. Her skipper, Commander Verner J. Soballe, dozed fitfully in his sea cabin. But the Higbee was alert. Men on watch stood by the five-inch guns, and down below soundmen listened intently for signs of prowling enemy submarines...
...Jack Benny keeps three soundmen hopping every time he enters the mythical safe-deposit vault beneath his house. The soundmen squeak doors, blow sirens, ring bells and toot horns to further the legend of Benny's penny-pinching. Studio audiences find it sidesplitting...
...includes metal shells to which actors repair when they are supposed to be below earth or water's surface, echo chambers, noise-making devices ranging from kettledrums to sheets of steel. Latitude Zero has a few new ones. When man-eating trees run amok in the script, the soundmen drag a real tree into the studio, grapple with it to give the proper effect. If the script calls for voices in a tunnel, the cast joins the soundmen in building one of chairs, tables, blankets, etc. In order to make a character, reduced in size by a magic ring...
...changed his habit of breakfasting at noon. A better comedian on stage than off, Connolly once amused himself, while ailing in a Chicago hospital, by calling up all the Shelleys in the telephone directory, asking each if Percy was at home. In Hollywood the work of photographers, soundmen and set mechanics interests him so much that he finds it hard to keep his mind on acting. His next picture will be Broadway Belle...