DAVID STONE
David Stone is a veteran sound editor of about 100 Hollywood feature films, including Gremlins, Top Gun, Die Hard, Speed, Ocean’s 11, Predator, Edward Scissorhands, Beauty and the Beast, and Batman Returns. He has collected five Golden Reel awards and won the 1992 Academy Award® for best Sound Effects Editing, for his supervising work on Bram Stoker’s Dracula. Now a Professor of Sound Design at Savannah College of Art and Design, he was the editor of Moviesound Newsletter.
Subjects: Animation, Audio, Communication Studies, Film and Video, Mass Communications
Biography
David Stone is a sound editor, a veteran of roughly 100 Hollywood feature films and many television series. He worked as a sound editor on Gremlins, Top Gun, Die Hard, Speed, and Ocean’s 11. He was a Supervising Sound Editor for projects as varied as Predator, Edward Scissorhands, Beauty and the Beast, Batman Returns, City Slickers 2, and Dolores Claiborne. He has collected Golden Reel awards for Best Sound Editing five times, and won the 1992 Academy Award® for best Sound Effects Editing, for his supervising work on Bram Stoker’s Dracula. In 2015, he was awarded a Lifetime Achievement Award by the San Luis Obispo Jewish Film Festival in California. Stone is a Professor and former Chair of Sound Design at Savannah College of Art and Design. Between 1989 and 1994, he was the editor of Moviesound Newsletter, which was published by Vanessa Ament.Education
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B.F.A. Cornell University, 1969
Areas of Research / Professional Expertise
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History of motion picture sound
Motion picture sound design
Film history, Film studies
Audio for film
Film history and film criticism
Early history of "Talkies"
Sound aesthetic issues, sound design in film
Personal Interests
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History of animation
Jazz
Websites
Books
Articles
Sonic Echoes from the Pre-Digital Era
Published: Jun 05, 2018 by CineMontage
Authors: Betsy McLane
Subjects:
Communications Studies
Hollywood Sound Design is much more than a simple compendium of old technologies and gossip from MSNL. The authors organize material by topic rather than chronology, and explanatory mini-essays place the excerpts in historical context. The subject is not sound theory, or how-to; the greater aim of the book is to provide an accurate historical record and inspiration for film historians, scholars and students of sound.
News
Sonic Echoes from the Pre-Digital Era
By: DAVID STONE
Subjects: Communications Studies
We now have an excellent review from Betsy McLane in "CineMontage"
Excerpt from a long review"
"Hollywood Sound Design is much more than a simple compendium of old technologies and gossip from MSNL. The authors organize material by topic rather than chronology, and explanatory mini-essays place the excerpts in historical context. The subject is not sound theory, or how-to; the greater aim of the book is to provide an accurate historical record and inspiration for film historians, scholars and students of sound."
Hollywood Sound Design and Moviesound Newsletter has disappeared from E-book availability.
By: DAVID STONE
Subjects: Applied Arts & Music, Film and Video
Apparently the E-book version of "Hollywood Sound Design and Moviesound Newsletter" has been withdrawn. So much for telling Film students that there is a more affordable version. Why did this happen?