CO Slyfield

CO "Sam" Slyfield (born May 11, 1898 in Frankfort , Michigan ; † January 15, 1974 in Escondido , California ) was an American sound engineer who was nominated four times for the Oscar for best sound and in 1947 with the Oscar for Technical Achievement Award .

Life

Slyfield began his career as a sound engineer in the Hollywood film industry in the recording studio division of The Walt Disney Company and first worked in 1940 in the production of the animated film Fantasia, directed by James Algar and Samuel Armstrong .

At the Academy Awards in 1943 , he was first nominated for an Oscar for best sound , for the animated film Bambi (1942) by David Hand . He received his second nomination for an Oscar for best sound in 1944 for the Walt Disney cartoon Three Caballeros in Samba Fever (Saludos Amigos, 1942), directed by Norm Ferguson , Wilfred Jackson , Jack Kinney , Hamilton Luske and Bill Roberts . For the indirect sequel to this film, Drei Caballeros (The Three Caballeros, 1944) by Norm Ferguson, Clyde Geronimi , Jack Kinney and Bill Roberts, he was again nominated for the Academy Awards for Best Sound in 1946.

At the Oscar ceremony in 1947 Slyfield was together with Arthur F. Blinn and Robert O. Cook , who worked also in the studio division of the Walt Disney Company, with the Oscar for technical merit ( Technical Achievement Award awarded), namely "for the design and development for a Tonfinder and track faces for checking and localization of sounds on soundtracks "(, for the design and development of an audio track finder and viewer for checking and locating noise in sound tracks').

Slyfield received his fourth and final nomination for an Oscar for best sound in 1951 for the cartoon fairytale film Cinderella (1950) directed by Clyde Geronimi, Wilfred Jackson and Hamilton Luske .

In his career that lasted until 1955, Slyfield was involved in the production of nearly thirty Disney films .

Awards

• 1947 : Oscar for technical merit ( Technical Achievement Award )

Filmography (selection)

• 1940: Fantasia
• 1942: Bambi
• 1942: Drei Caballeros ( The Three Caballeros )
• 1946: Uncle Remus' Wonderland ( Song of the South )
• 1946: Make Mine Music
• 1948: Music, Dance and Rhythm ( Melody Time )
• 1949: The Adventures of Ichabod and Mr. Toad ( The Adventures of Ichabod and Mr. Toad )
• 1950: Cinderella (German alternative title: Cinderella)
• 1951: Alice in Wonderland ( Alice in Wonderland )
• 1953: Peter Pan
• 1953: The Living Desert ( The Living Desert , Documentary )
• 1954: Miracles of the Prairie ( The Vanishing Prairie , documentary)
• 1954: 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea ( 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea )
• 1954: Siam - country and people (Siam)
• 1955: Lady and the Tramp ( Lady and the Tramp )

Web links

• CO Slyfield in the Internet Movie Database (English)