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M OT I O N P I CTU R E S O U N D E D I TO R S I 27 In addition to our weekly webinars (which I discussed in a previous issue of MPSE Wavelength) ... subscribers to the museum online (via Patreon) are treated to an original weekly short-form audio series called Soundbites. The series is "hosted" by actress Karah Britton, who introduces each speaker. The episodes are one to three minutes long, and each one shares a quick story about creating audio for entertainment—featuring part of the museum's collection. We've had episodes about how certain sounds were made, played outtakes from sessions, and featured clips from archived interviews with Ben Burtt, Mark Mangini, and even Walt Disney. One of the films we have talked about in several episodes of Soundbites is one which is very appropriate to discuss in our winter issue ... The Nightmare Before Christmas (1993). I'm proud to have been a part of this film and happy to have it represented in the museum. In Soundbites, episode #13, I tell the story of one of my favorite Foley props ... the dice we used to record the sound of Oogie Boogie's dice in the film. Richard Anderson, the supervising sound editor, bought them from Hollywood Magic on Hollywood Boulevard as a sound effects prop specifically for that show. We threw them around on various surfaces, recording them rolling and bouncing for all the times Oogie Boogie taunted Santa Claus with them. For the sound of them rolling around inside a skull, I shook the dice inside a pair of wooden salad bowls ... that I admit I stole from my parents' house (and failed to return). After the show, those special dice stayed in my office desk drawer for years. Every now and then, they came in handy for other sounds. Once they were used in a very stylized trailer for the 1994 Tommy Lee Jones thriller Blown Away, where we needed the sound for a close-up shot of two marbles clicking together. The dice are now a part of the collection at The Hollywood Sound Museum and will be on display once we open. I've been very lucky—and perhaps a little crafty—to have the chance to get my own voice into various projects we've worked on. It actually led to performing voices as a side job, which continues to this day. In The Nightmare Before Christmas, I can be heard as various ghosts, bugs, and most notably, the scared gasps of the Easter Bunny. But in episode #6 of Soundbites, I tell this BY STEVE LEE, THSM FOUNDER UNTIL WE ARE ABLE TO OPEN IN AN ACTUAL "BRICK-AND-MORTAR" LOCATION THAT GUESTS CAN VISIT IN-PERSON, THE HOLLYWOOD SOUND MUSEUM HAS BEEN OFFERING VIRTUAL EVENTS AND AUDIO PROGRAMS ONLINE TO GIVE EVERYONE A LOOK AT WHAT WE'VE BEEN COLLECTING. F ROM TH E VAU LT O F TH E H O L LY WOO D SOU N D M U S E U M Creating Soundbites