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Table of Contents SFX History #3: Giant Apes and Other Cool Stuff A PML Market Report: Nashville Ambient Tracks Is Looking for Its Niche Search Millimeter's Library ADVERTISEMENT APM, the leader in production music services, has 4,000 CDs featuring every musical genre from beautiful classical recordings to the latest hard-hitting tracks. We also offer complimentary music searches from our talented Music Directors, music replacement service, a wide variety of digital delivery options, and more. Call us today! 1.800.543.4276 www.apmmusic.com What's New SFX History #3: Giant Apes and Other Cool Stuff Can the sequel to a sequel be better than the original? Almost never. Okay, Goldfinger was better than Dr. No and From Russia With Love. But Godfather III? Ouch! Now, we could've quit this series after our brilliant first installment, but we sensed you were hungering for more. So, tempting the fates, we are unleashing part three of our history of SFX, with the solemn vow that it will not star Sofia Coppola as the daughter of effects titan Murray Spivack! With the advent of sound in films at the end of the 1920s came the
rise of sound technicians. Among the first films to use created sounds
(as opposed to sounds created on the movie set) for dramatic purposes
was the 1931 opus Dr. Jeckyl and Mr. Hyde, for which sound man
Rouben Mamoulian used recordings of heartbeats, bells, and gongs (played
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