tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4733870058840414356.post7386499037470331732..comments2024-01-23T10:29:57.817-08:00Comments on Jason Watches Movies: Jason watches WINGSpuppymeathttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17861361925649066123noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4733870058840414356.post-41903964698171293812009-05-24T12:54:50.628-07:002009-05-24T12:54:50.628-07:00Interesting, I hadn't looked into the "engineering...Interesting, I hadn't looked into the "engineering effects" award it won. And I'm sorry I didn't write more about what Ben Burtt actually did. He did it all electronically, no live foley (BTW, when I saw live foley at BRAND UPON THE BRAIN at SFIFF a few years back, it was awesome). But the electronic effects were all (to my understanding) recordings of practical foley effects, based as close as Burtt could determine to the original effects. So it was probably pretty darn close to the original WINGS experience.puppymeathttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17861361925649066123noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4733870058840414356.post-45106164295696568902009-05-24T12:05:20.494-07:002009-05-24T12:05:20.494-07:00Really wish I could have made it to this. Most Ac...Really wish I could have made it to this. Most Academy Awards books note <I>Wings</I> as not only the first Best Picture winner (though I believe the title of the award it won back then was "Outstanding Production"- and was subsequently retrofitted with the "Best Picture" label we commonly use today), but also the first winner of an AA for "Engineering Effects". I'd always assumed this was meant to honor the visual effects sequences, but recent research on the first Academy Awards taught me that in fact that award was meant to honor the live sound effects that accompanied <B><I>Wings</I></B> during its premiere engagement in Hollywood, as it was to honor the visual aspect of the film. So to have Ben Burtt there doing something perhaps similar (exactly what was it that he did do? live foley? electronic effects? you don't really say) would have been particularly fitting for an event commemorating the 80th anniversary of the <B><I>Wings</I></B> double-win.Brian Darrhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17693169310367670898noreply@blogger.com