Sound design

So most of it was basically done by them in London. Sound designer Norman Wanstall recalls how he added production value to Dr. No through sound effects. A typical example would be where I could contribute would be just literally to introduce voices where purely for atmosphere, which was something I learned from Wyn Ryder. He was a great fan of doing this, and I learned how he brought scenes alive just by having distant voices.

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In the studio, you can control everything much easier, so everybody was more quiet, and it was easier, it was less tension. Sound effects play a key role in the latter part of the film. Editor Peter Hunt. In order to level that all out, I know how we came to have that general hum, was that we thought, well, because it was way down, underground,

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the most technically and artistically perfect track for the cinema. Like all the departments, Wanstall was challenged by the film's limited budget. The budget was very low and this really was significant in my case because invariably on busy films like that, action films, you have two soundtrack editors. It's inevitable you need those because somebody has to look after all the dialogue and somebody has to look after the sound effects.

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Tim Lucas

especially effective in the five-to-one sound mix. By taking out the music, the scene becomes more intimate and the two men feel more exposed, more out in the open. We're going to see what they're really made of. Just like the games we know. They have been behaving up to now, just as children do, but that's about to change.

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Tim Lucas

the sped-up, spring-like sound of a Jews harp. These are just two of the many ways that Ennio Morricone added to the film with musical sound effects as opposed to music. This elderly character actor playing the telegraph operator is Giovanni Tarallo,

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Tim Lucas

while the later stereo re-recordings were arranged to make a more ideal listening experience. As best I can determine, the first full-length soundtrack album was released by RCA Records in 1971, padded with music from A Fistful of Dollars. In 2004, there appeared a CD released from RCA Victor Europe, which lifted the mono tracks, replete with sound effects, directly off the film soundtrack. It had a running time of only 15 to 16 minutes,

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Tim Lucas

His stuntman was evidently summoned to provide some genuine contact, but sound effects carry Van Cleef's non-contact lows. Rassimov's performance was dubbed in English by Joyce Gordon, the wife of actor Bernard Grant, who has also dubbed various roles for this film. Joyce was also the voice of Claudia Cardinale in Once Upon a Time in the West. This scene was reduced to a single slap in the UK, and stayed that way through the film's 1999 video release.

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