Daniel J. Bloomberg
Daniel J. Bloomberg ( born July 4, 1905 in Massachusetts; † August 14, 1984 in Ventura, California ) was an American film and sound engineer, who was nominated six times for an Academy Award and four times the also Oscar for technical merit called Technical Achievement Award and received an honorary Oscar.
Life
Bloomberg began his career as a film and sound engineer at Studio Sound Department of Republic Pictures in 1934 in the film Woman in the Dark and worked until 1952 in the production of forty films. He became known especially through numerous developments in the field of film and sound.
At the Academy Awards in 1943 company Tiger Leaping ( Flying Tigers, 1942) by David Miller with John Wayne, John Carroll and Anna Lee was nominated two times for the film: first, for the Oscar for best sound, the other with Howard Lydecker for the Oscar for best special effects. In addition, he won his first Technical Achievement Award "for the design and application of a system for pre-selection purposes in film production " (, for the design and application to motion picture production of a device for pre -selection purposes ').
In 1944 he was again nominated for an Oscar for best sound, and indeed for the Western Hell of Oklahoma ( 1943) by Albert S. Rogell with John Wayne, Martha Scott and Albert Dekker. He also won his second Oscar for technical merit "for the design and development of a low cost method of converting Moviolas in class B push-pull playback devices " (, for the design and development of an inexpensive method of converting Moviolas to Class B push-pull reproduction ').
At the Academy Awards in 1945 he was again nominated for an Oscar for best sound in the romantic comedy musical Brazil ( 1944) by Joseph Santley with Tito Guízar, Virginia Bruce, and Edward Everett Horton. Furthermore him his third Technical Achievement Award "for the design and development of a multi- interlock selector switch " (, For the design and development of a multi- interlock selector switch ') was awarded.
1946 Bloomberg was again nominated for an Oscar for best sound, this time for the Western San Francisco Lilly ( 1945) by Joseph Kane with the main actors John Wayne, Ann Dvorak and Joseph Schildkraut. He also received an honorary Oscar " for the construction of prominent music recording studios, which offers optimal shooting conditions and all the elements of an acoustic and architectural design combines " (, For the building of an outstanding musical scoring auditorium Which Provides optimum recording conditions and Combines all elements of acoustic and engineering design ').
In 1953, he was last nominated for the Academy Award for Best Sound in The Winner (1952 ) by John Ford with John Wayne, Maureen O'Hara and Barry Fitzgerald.
At the Academy Awards in 1957 Daniel J. Bloomberg got together with John Pond and William Wade its fourth and final Oscar for technical merit, namely " to adapt the Naturama widescreen technology at a camera Mitchell Camera Corporation " ( one for the Naturama adaptation to the Mitchell camera ' ).