J.G. Smith is the full artist for the American Blues Theater’s annual holiday production of “It’s a Wonderful Life: Live in ...

Variété artists who used sound effects to add sound to the image were in fact the first foley artists. What’s the historical background of your profession? Jack Donovan Foley was the first to ...

Sound effects—called Foley—add crucial value to any film. “The challenge,” says Foley artist John Roesch, “is to create something in sync with the picture that is totally believable.” ...

Foley is named after Jack Foley, a sound effects artist who developed many of the sound effect techniques used in filmmaking. His pioneering work dates back to the 1920s, during the early days of ...