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American inventor and audio engineer
William Garity
Born (1899-04-02 ) April 2, 1899Died September 16, 1971(1971-09-16) (aged 72) Years active 1939-1971
William E. Garity (April 2, 1899 – September 16, 1971) was an American inventor and audio engineer who attended the Pratt Institute before going to work for Lee De Forest around 1921. Garity worked with DeForest on the Phonofilm sound-on-film system until 1927, when Pat Powers hired Garity to develop a sound system closely based upon Phonofilm that Powers called Powers Cinephone .
Garity is best known for his employment at Walt Disney Studios , which used the Cinephone system in the late 1920s and early 30s. In 1937, also at the Disney Studios, Garity developed the multiplane camera first used to shoot Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs . Ub Iwerks , having left Disney to work at his own studio, developed an unrelated multiplane camera, during this same time period.[ 1] [ 2]
In 1940, Garity developed Fantasound , an early stereophonic surround sound system for Disney's Fantasia .[ 3] After leaving the Disney studio, Garity later became vice president and production manager for Walter Lantz Productions . He was inducted in the Disney Legends program in 1999.
^ Parkinson, David (2007). The Rough Guide to Film Musicals . Penguin. p. 161.
^ LoBrutto, Vincent (2005). Becoming film literate: the art and craft of motion pictures . ABC-CLIO. p. 138.
^ Garity, William E.; Jones, Watson (July 1942). "Experiences in Road-Showing Walt Disney's Fantasia" . Journal of the Society of Motion Picture Engineers . 39 . United States. doi :10.5594/J09876 .
Awards for William Garity
1928–1950
Warner Bros. / Charlie Chaplin (1928)
Walt Disney (1932)
Shirley Temple (1934)
D. W. Griffith (1935)
The March of Time / W. Howard Greene and Harold Rosson (1936)
Edgar Bergen / W. Howard Greene / Museum of Modern Art Film Library / Mack Sennett (1937)
J. Arthur Ball / Walt Disney / Deanna Durbin and Mickey Rooney / Gordon Jennings , Jan Domela , Devereaux Jennings, Irmin Roberts, Art Smith, Farciot Edouart , Loyal Griggs , Loren L. Ryder , Harry D. Mills, Louis Mesenkop , Walter Oberst / Oliver T. Marsh and Allen Davey / Harry Warner (1938)
Douglas Fairbanks / Judy Garland / William Cameron Menzies / Motion Picture Relief Fund (Jean Hersholt , Ralph Morgan , Ralph Block , Conrad Nagel ) / Technicolor SA (1939)
Bob Hope / Nathan Levinson (1940)
Walt Disney , William Garity , John N. A. Hawkins, and the RCA Manufacturing Company / Leopold Stokowski and his associates / Rey Scott / British Ministry of Information (1941)
Charles Boyer / Noël Coward / Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (1942)
George Pal (1943)
Bob Hope / Margaret O'Brien (1944)
Republic Studio, Daniel J. Bloomberg , and the Republic Studio Sound Department / Walter Wanger / The House I Live In / Peggy Ann Garner (1945)
Harold Russell / Laurence Olivier / Ernst Lubitsch / Claude Jarman Jr. (1946)
James Baskett / Thomas Armat , William Nicholas Selig , Albert E. Smith , and George Kirke Spoor / Bill and Coo / Shoeshine (1947)
Walter Wanger / Monsieur Vincent / Sid Grauman / Adolph Zukor (1948)
Jean Hersholt / Fred Astaire / Cecil B. DeMille / The Bicycle Thief (1949)
Louis B. Mayer / George Murphy / The Walls of Malapaga (1950)
1951–1975 1976–2000 2001–present
1990 1991 1992 1993 1994 1995 1996 1997
Lucien Adés*
Angel Angelopoulos*
Antonio Bertini
Armand Bigle
Gaudenzio Capelli
Roberto de Leonardis *
Cyril Edgar*
Wally Feignoux*
Didier Fouret
Mario Gentilini*
Cyril James*
Horst Koblischek
Gunnar Mansson
Arnoldo Mondadori *
Armand Palivoda*
Poul Brahe Pedersen*
Joe Potter *
André Vanneste*
Paul Winkler *
1998 1999