As I mentioned before there were plenty of area where no camera were allowed on the tour. Included in those area we the sound recording studios. We visited two sound recording studios.
In the first, and smaller studio, we watched a audio technicians laid tracks for an upcoming episode of the TV show, “Crash“. We stood in the back very quietly watching and listening as track upon track was melded together working towards a final mix. Of course we didn’t see more than a few minutes of the work and that represented a tiny fraction of the work that would be required.
After that we were taken to the Eastwood Sound Studio. It’s named after Clint Eastwood who championed its restoration about a dozen years ago. Beyond film scores — the room will hold a 124 piece orchestra — this studio is a favorite of the music industry. It boasts superior sound qualities and design. The studio itself goes back to the 30’s and it was there that Max Steiner recorded the music for Casablanca.
Tomorrow more on my trip and more pictures, a couple of props from the Prop department and some famous cars preserved on the lot.
This is not a filming studio, but a recording studio and it was unlikely that it was used for ‘Singing In The Rain’ as that film was made by MGM and no Warner Brothers.
Casablanca! WOW!! I wonder if it was also used in “Singing in the Rain”? They filmed in a sound studio for part of that.
It positively kills me the way we lose/don’t pay attention to details like sound (Or overuse of camera angle) in films. In Williamsburg (yes, Williamsburg, Virginia, of all places!), we toured the techinical side of their work several times and one time we went through their TV/film production studio. Very small by comparison, naturally, but the sound part was interesting because they have a film “”Story of a Patriot” that was filmed in six-speaker stereo (back in the early 60s, or possibly slightly earlier, from the look of it.) and it was being remastered and brought into the digital age HOWEVER there was a problem – sound technology has changed extensively and the six-speaker stereo sound does not convert simply to our multiple steereo, sub-wolfer, and central channel sound. the question becomes how to convert the sound ans not lose the flavor with which it was created. (BTW – it is the longest contiunously running film in the world.) any errors in this are my own, so if the details you discover later are different, please know that I am probably a little confused.