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in concrete, is equipped with springs. As a sound is tossed into it, it bounces around, and sound waves are transmitted from spring to spring. "The old idea was that St. Patrick's Cathedral in New York and the Mormon Temple in Salt Lake City were the two best places in which to find full rich sounds complete with overtones," said Hansen. "But we found that after recording choral singing in those two places, we could add majesty to the voices of the singers by shooting the choral effects through our magic concrete box here at the studio."
"Most male actors think they can snore convincingly," said Moulton. "Maybe they can when they're really asleep, but they can certainly louse up a snore when they're just making believe. Fortunately, we have in stock a number of excellent snore sound tracks to take care of that."
Filming A Tree Grows in Brooklyn was tough for the sound department. It couldn't shoot it in a real city, because it would have picked up too many modern sounds out of place in a period movie. The sounds needed just didn't exist any more on any city street anywhere. What Moulton was after was beer trucks rumbling on paving stones, the clang of old-style streetcars, the sound of beerkeg heads being knocked in, German bands tootling on street corners, and the squawk of newsboys crying their wares. Streettraffic noises have changed their character radically. Nowadays there are auto horns and sirens, autos backfiring, exhaust from motors, and the r-r-r-R-R-R-R of hospital ambulances. Newsboy sounds fall into fifteen or twenty different periods alone, and men like Hansen and Moulton have to know the newsboy techniques for all those periods. Almost no boys yell "Wuxtryl" any more. There was a time when a lad selling papers tried to make his words sound unintelligible, hoping that those listening would imagine some smashing news event had occurred. News vendors now make an effort to tell people what's in a paper. For another thing, newsboys now aren't apt to be boys at all, but men. "The only place we could make the Brooklyn of twenty-five or thirty years ago exist was right here on our own lot," Moulton said.