The Film in the Other Room
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Personal notes on the sounds of film, TV, & other media. Plus some audio history & culture in the mix. By Dr. Suzy Mangion, film sound PhD graduate & music maker.
Before David Attenborough and Blue Planet, before even Jacques Cousteau, there was Jean Painlevé. Making extraordinary films about sea life, with extraordinary soundtracks. He made 2 shorts about sea urchins, in 1929 & 1954, but the second OURSINS was scored with what he called “organised noise”📽️1/4
July 8, 2025 at 2:09 PM
Before David Attenborough and Blue Planet, before even Jacques Cousteau, there was Jean Painlevé. Making extraordinary films about sea life, with extraordinary soundtracks. He made 2 shorts about sea urchins, in 1929 & 1954, but the second OURSINS was scored with what he called “organised noise”📽️1/4
Sound effects come to the fore in Tati’s films from the start. The narrative is loose, barely there. The dialogue drifts in and out of intelligibility, often not even translated by the subtitles, but staying just as sound. Tati's world is a slow cartoon of audiovisual jokes, curious & unique. (1/3 )
June 23, 2025 at 11:50 AM
Sound effects come to the fore in Tati’s films from the start. The narrative is loose, barely there. The dialogue drifts in and out of intelligibility, often not even translated by the subtitles, but staying just as sound. Tati's world is a slow cartoon of audiovisual jokes, curious & unique. (1/3 )
I'll begin with a silent joke from 1929. The seminal Surrealist Un Chien Andalou (Buñuel & Dalí) lampooned standard silent film conventions of ‘silent sound’. A doorbell rings, a cocktail shaker sounds. The visual montage makes us ‘hear’ the unexpected imaginary audio.
June 16, 2025 at 10:11 AM
I'll begin with a silent joke from 1929. The seminal Surrealist Un Chien Andalou (Buñuel & Dalí) lampooned standard silent film conventions of ‘silent sound’. A doorbell rings, a cocktail shaker sounds. The visual montage makes us ‘hear’ the unexpected imaginary audio.