To create the sound of an alien space craft door opening she used the turning of a cast iron lid. Radio’s very first science fiction radio show took off with jets Ora Nichols created by modifying an air conditioner unit. The Nicholses loved inventing and creating sounds. For example, an egg beater on the radio sounds more like a lawn mower than an actual lawn mower. Ora Nichols thought that the best sound effects could sometimes come from sources other than the object itself. Ora Nichols worked with Orson Welles frequently, but there was an ongoing tension between the two over how sounds were created. Actors and directors were still learning to value her trade as a much they valued their own. Nichols and her husband Arthur Nichols are credited with bringing the concept of sound effects to radio.īeing the first sound effects woman came with its challenges. Nichols was the first, and only, woman to run a radio sound effects department during the Golden Age. She lead the CBS sound team that brought the famous "War of the Worlds" broadcast to life. But it was a woman who was a major influence in the sound effects profession. Men were the directors, the producers, the composers and the sound effect technicians. It’s no secret that radio in the early days was a man’s game.
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