George Borghi presented the following poem at last year’s CAS awards. We received a copy of it recently and thought that it was so entertaining that it deserved to be read by a wider audience. If Sound Were Picture by George Borghi If sound were picture And picture were sound, There’d be a few changes Coming down. When you’d look at the budget It’d be perfectly clear, That the bias was decidedly Toward the ear. Sound would be PRODUCTION; PICTURE would be post. We’d get to start FIRST, And we’d get the most. Hell, we’d dub for a year- Edit for two. We’d loop every line And make up some, too. Foley would be spotted; Props would be bought. ‘A’ channel every character Principal or not. We’d score way too much music And throw most of it away, Like picture folks do Day after day. We’d have alternates for alternates And alternates for those; Charge 5,000 an hour While the director chose. Star mixers, supervisors And foley artists, too Would be above the line talent Not referred to as crew. And when the sound was finished When we’d blown the whole WAD; THAT’S when we’d turn over To the picture SQUAD.     George Borghi is senior vice president of Liberty-Livewire Audio. He can be reached via email   Reprinted from The Motion Picture Editors Guild Magazine Vol. 22, No. 1 - March/April 2001   Guild Home | Magazine Home | Top of Page   Copyright © 2001, All Rights Reserved by The Motion Picture Editors Guild, IATSE Local 700