Illustration by Juliette Toma for the Times. For a piece about foley artists. On in a series of stories about how to make it in Hollywood. (Illustration by Juliette Toma for the Times) Back when ...

If you’re a Foley artist working at a palace of sonic art like Skywalker Sound, every possible tool is available to you. Water pools of varying depths, stores of wooden sticks and fabrics and metal ...

This story appears in the June 2019 issue of National Geographic magazine. What would a scary movie be without the ominous creak of floorboards? Sound effects—called Foley—add crucial value to any ...

Back when silent movies gave way to talkies, filmmakers found that the microphones on their sets captured little more than the actors’ dialogue. Without additional sound recording, their films would ...