One of the first commercial films to take full advantage of the new opportunities provided by recorded sound was Le Million, directed by René Clair and produced by Tobis's French division.
On and on went the sound track past le Cotton Club, avec M. Bill Robinson, le tap-danseur, past the Casa Manana with its girls adorables, etc.
Chale bursts from the lips with the same vigour as chyeah, only to resolve gently in the "le" sound.
We followed the race to the sound of "Regardez, le Jaguar" and "Ee up, lad, look at t' Jag".
The first issue of Becoming the Forest arrived in 2015, when Helle was asked to contribute to the sound art gallery Le Bon Acceuil in Rennes, France for the Oodaqq Festival program.
They loaded the sorted grades of metal into the furnace, and on the other side bright, thin streams of liquid metal ran out of pipes and into ingot molds, with a slightly metallic liquid sound — a silvery shing a ling a ling.
Last year I witnessed a Sound Art performance at Le Conte Middle School in Los Angeles.
That sounds heavy though "Le Grand Amour" is anything but, even in its more wistful interludes.
If it all sounds like John le Carré with ninjas, that's because it's from Masahiro Shinoda's Samurai Spy (1965), the grooviest film in this new box set.
With just a dash of lighting, a few modest props and a great sound design (excellent contributions from Les Dickert, Valerie Therese Bart and Daniel Kluger), Packer introduces and performs scenes from the canon, dashing from Romeo & Juliet to Macbeth and on with aplomb.
His program chansons include "La Bataille de Marignan" ("La Guerre"), imitating sounds of battle; "Voulez ouir les cris de Paris," with Paris street cries; and "Le Chant des oiseaux," with the sounds of birds.
