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50 CINEMONTAGE / FALL 2015 according to the sound effects editor. "We had heavy shoes plus linen and cloth touches; not modern sounding at all. I have an extensive library that I've built up over the past 25 to 30 years, and which contains the sound of older cars. I kept asking myself: 'What does the sound of this car need to convey to the audience?' If it didn't work, I started over." Sanders delivered a mixture of mono and stereo elements to the stage, to let Minkler "have some fun with the basic tracks," he says. "I divided the hard effects into 16 conventional mono tracks and 24 mono tracks that had been pre-treated to re-create the newsreel sound from the period. For backgrounds, I delivered 64 stereo elements, in A/B/C format to accommodate screen changes, and had 24 tracks of mono Foley. "I wrangled everything into shape for Christian, and added volume levels in Avid Pro Tools sessions," Sanders continues. "I also added labels for elements that I thought might be useful for surround channels, and ambiences that might work on dialogue tracks — but that would be Perry Robertson, left, Christian Minkler and Scott Sanders. Trumbo. Courtesy of Bleecker Street Media. Photo by Hilary Bronwyn Gayle