ABSTRACT
A pioneer in film sound, Frayne was born in Ireland and migrated to the U.S. as a young man. He earned an A.B. degree from Ripon College, and later on won his doctorate from the University of Minnesota. He first worked for Western Electric, and later on joined the Westrex Corporation, where he did pioneering work in magnetic recording on film. In 1959, he joined Datalab, a division of Consolidated Electrodynamics, in Pasadena, California. While working for those companies, he also developed a noise-reduction system for motion picture use, as well as methods for the measurement of intermodulation distortion.
