ABSTRACT
Theatre, that thrilled the audience and positively pointed the way for audience acceptance and appeal of sound. These early films synchronized musical scores and some sound effects as they could, but the following year it was Warner Brothers' production of The Jazz Singer that sent other studios scrambling to license, adapt, or develop systems of their own. Starting out as a stunt double in the silent era of the mid-1920s at Universal, Jack Foley soon found himself working as assistant director on several pictures filmed on location in the Owens Valley, then shooting inserts and shorts back at the Universal lot. Foley spent most of his time walking the actor's performances over again, using the direct-to-picture technique. The technique of cutting in new sound effects grew to the point that most sound editors commonly cut footsteps to all characters throughout the entire picture, all pulled from the studio's sound library.
