Hollywood Sound Design and Moviesound Newsletter

Reel 7Critical Listening

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Sc. 1 Introduction to George Simpson (1944–2009)

by Anna Claire Simpson

My father taught me, perhaps indirectly, a lot about the world through his work in sound. He taught me about the tremendous labor that goes into making a movie, and how the majority of that labor is invisible to the audience. Like most of his colleagues in post-production, he worked slavishly behind the wall of sound. Every moment in whatever film he worked on received the same meticulous attention: he worked it until it was seamless, until it became a matrix of undetectable threads in the fabric of the film. I never saw ...