ABSTRACT
Ironically, the informal and breezy writing style we tried to emulate may have come unconsciously from some of the same popular movie magazines whose blatant commercialism we disdained. The authors wanted to encourage readers to seek out and demand the best possible experience of projection in theaters, and we sought to stimulate dialogue about the misunderstood arts of making sound for movies. Many of them are college graduates, even graduate scholars, working in an environment that often sports the trappings of blue collar industry, modified by fast-lane politics and the pressure that comes with high-stakes financial gambling. It is not a world that compares to anything familiar on planet Earth. Culture fans began to appreciate motion pictures only by the time Silents had begun to look archaic. If talkies were mass entertainment, then everything silent could be given classical status, or so went the silly reasoning of some filmgoers.
