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Getting To Know You
Our Guild is getting so big the Newsletter is starting a column introducing ordinary members - not award winners, just the regular rank-and-file. To start, meet a recordist.
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"It was great to grow up in the 40's and 50's in Central Texas where opportunities for hunting and fishing were plentiful.
In 1960 I joined the U.S. Air Force and was assigned to the 1365th Photographic Squadron at Orlando, Fla. We made training films and documentaries "just like in Hollywood." It was fun and a great learning experience.
My assignment was "sound specialist". I performed all duties at one time or another related to sound including projection. Our chief of the sound section was a civil servant named Ken Schouten, who once worked in sound at Warner Brothers.
My tour of duty ended in 1964 and shortly thereafter I came to Hollywood. My first job was cable person on production at 20th Century Fox. Later I worked at Walt Disney, Sam Goldwyn, and Universal studios as a transfer sound recordist.
From 1977 to 1997 I worked at Warner Bros. in sound transfer. Right now I am waiting for my next assignment.
If anyone has worked in military films and would like to talk over old times, please let me know. Contact me at (818) 709-6766 or via e-mail
Reprinted from
The Motion Picture Editors Guild Newsletter
Vol. 19, No. 4 - July/August 1998
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