“The talking film is not everything. There is also the sound film.” Thus explained the French filmmaker René Clair in 1929. With this statement Clair was challenging us all to push the boundaries of sound design in films. From the primitive synchronization experiments of Lee de Forest and Thomas Edison to state-of-the-art Dolby Digital 10.2 surround sound, there are no boundaries for creating a virtual deluge of sound. Even though one is tempted to hypothesize about the future of sound design, it is only through an educated study of past inventions and their effect on the market that one is led to the next innovation in aural imagery.
To truly understand the marriage of sound to motion pictures, one must return to the late 1800s, when The Edison Company under Thomas Edison experimented with the idea. In 1894, under the direction of W. K. L. Dickson, Edison made a short twenty-five second film known today as The Dickson Experimental Sound Film. The film depicts a man......

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Title: Sound Design
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