Complete show notes (with links) are available at http://opticalpodcast.com/episode_006B

We interview sound designer Mark Mangini about his career, including his early work on Raiders of the Lost Ark, and chat with film/TV editor Brian Newell about Dragonslayer, and the invention of Go-Motion.

This is continuing coverage of Cinefex 6 — see episode 006A for even more Raiders and Dragonslayer goodness!

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• Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981)
  
• Dragonslayer (1981)
  
• Follow along with our List on Letterboxd, featuring films we’ve covered, and upcoming films to watch.
  

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• Mark Mangini, sound designer and re-recording mixer
  
• Brian Newell, TV/film editor
  

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• All tracks by Digital Droo
  

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• Cinefex 6 — October 1981, available in the Cinefex iPad app
  
• Revisiting Cinefex (6): Early CGI, Dragonslayer and Raiders by Graham Edwards
  
• Indiana Jones: The Complete Adventures on Blu-ray
  
• The Complete Making of Indiana Jones: The Definitive Story Behind All Four Films by J.W. Rinzler and Laurent Bouzereau
  
• Dragonslayer on DVD
  

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• Sound Design
  
• Walter Murch and his sound design expertise were discussed in detail in Episode 003 of The Optical
  
• Mark Mangini’s music
  
• Hanna Barbara - The New Fred & Barney Show (1979)
  
• Star Trek: The Motion Picture (1979)
  
• V’Ger musical effect — Blaster Beam demonstration
  
• Replacing English with Vulcan Speech in Star Trek: The Motion Picture
  
• Gremlins (1984)
  
• Jack the Giant Slayer (2013)
  
• The Fifth Element (1997)
  
• Silent Films — Mangini’s open letter to a reviewer who neglected the role of sound in the CGI-heavy sequences in Godzilla.
  
• Ben Burtt
  
• Richard L. Anderson
  
• Stephen Hunter Flick
  
• Frank Welker
  
• The Wilhelm Scream
  
• The Spiderwick Chronicles (2008)
  
• Kafka (1991)
  
• Steven Soderbergh talking about re-working Kafka — about halfway though the interview. Sounds like there will be a disc released after he’s done tinkering with it.
  
• Stigmata (1999)
  
• Warrior (2011)
  
• Space Jam (1996)
  
• Looney Tunes: Back in Action (2003)
  
• Treg Brown
  
• Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home (1986)
  
• War of the Worlds (1953)
  
• Forbidden Planet (1956)
  
• Jane Got a Gun coming in 2015
  
• Black Mass coming in 2015
  
• Dolby Atmos
  
• Mark Mangini’s Blog
  
• LA Sound Group Presents Mark Mangini — group chat
  

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• Go-Motion on Wikipedia
  
• Peter MacNicol
  
• Revenge of the Jedi teaser trailer
  
• The Vermithrax Pejorative Story: Behind the Scenes at the Making of Dragonslayer
  
• Dragonslayer Full-size Head Restoration
  
• The Rhamphorhynchus pterosaur that the design of the Vermithrax Pejorative was based upon.
  
• We talked about the tauntaun stop-motion animation in Episode 002 of The Optical
  
• G is for Greenscreen on the Cinefex blog contains a couple of great example images of ILM’s backlit bluescreen — one with Ghostbuster’s Stay-Puft Marshmallow Man in front of it, and the other with Jabba’s skiff from Return of the Jedi.
  
• Inverse square law for light
  
• Tremors (1990)
  
• We covered Ray Harryhausen’s stop-motion techniques and armatures in Episode 005 of The Optical
  
• Overcranking film
  
• You’ll believe a man can fly. — Superman (1978) tagline
  
• Dragonslayer Behind-the-Scenes Pictures
  
• Original Go-Motion tests for Jurassic Park created before the decision was made to make the dinosaurs digitally.
  

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• The Optical theme by Digital Droo
  
• The Optical “aperture” logo by Mike Gower