Sam Slyfield
CO "Sam" Slyfield ( born May 11, 1898 in Frankfort, Michigan, † January 15, 1974 in Escondido, California ) was an American engineer who was nominated four times for an Academy Award for Best Sound and 1947 's Oscar for technical merit ( technical Achievement Award) was awarded.
Life
Slyfield began his career as a sound engineer in the film industry in Hollywood in the studio division of The Walt Disney Company and worked for the first time in 1940 during the production of directed by James Algar and Samuel Armstrong animated film Fantasia.
At the Academy Awards in 1943, he was first nominated for an Oscar for best sound, and indeed for the animated film Bambi (1942 ) by David Hand. His second nomination for the Oscar for best sound he received in 1944 for the directed by Norman Ferguson, Wilfred Jackson, Jack Kinney, Hamilton Luske and Bill Roberts incurred Walt Disney animated film The Three Caballeros in Samba fever ( Saludos Amigos, 1942). For indirect sequel of this film, The Three Caballeros ( The Three Caballeros, 1944) by Norman Ferguson, Clyde Geronimi, Jack Kinney, and Bill Roberts, he was again nominated for the Academy Awards in 1946 for the Oscar for best sound.
At the Academy Awards in 1947 Slyfield was together with Arthur F. Blinn and Robert O. Cook, who had also worked in the recording studio division of The Walt Disney Company, the Oscar for technical merit ( Technical Achievement Award), and that "for the design and development for a Tonfinder and track faces for reviewing and localization of sounds on tracks " (, for the design and development of an audio track finder and viewer for checking and locating noise in sound tracks ').
His fourth and final nomination for the Oscar for best sound got Slyfield 1951 for the staged by Clyde Geronimi, Wilfred Jackson and Hamilton Luske animated fairy tale Cinderella (1950).
In his career lasting until 1955 Slyfield was involved in the production of almost thirty Disney movies.