“Track Stars,” a film created by and about the Foleys.

Foleys are responsible for creating effects to reinforce or enhance a film’s soundtrack. During sound design, decisions are made that affect room effects; for example, it is not the same for a door to close with a low-pitched bell or a high-pitched bell; they will express different circumstances and provoke different sensations in the viewer.

To create all these sounds are the Foleys, with thousands of tricks that they rarely want to reveal. One of the best known is their ability to create a whole herd of horses, or just one of them walking quietly, from the crash of a few coconuts.

This video is a film created by Andy Malcolm and Terry Burke (both “Foley artists”) in 1979 and called “Track Stars: The Unseen Heroes of Movie Sound”. It was directed by Burke himself and Malcolm worked on the sound and co-edited it.

Through a split screen we can see the images from a film and the very complicated and impressive work of these two artists.

I hope you enjoy it as much as I have enjoyed watching it. 🙂