U.S. sound engineer. He was a pioneering motion picture sound technician who garnered six Academy Awards for such innovations as the development of fine-grain emulsions for variable-density sound recording (1941), the construction and use of the first dial-controlled step-by-step sound channel lineup and test circuit (1945), the development and application of the supersonic playback and public address system (1949), the first studiowide application of magnetic sound recordind for motion picture production (1950), and the invention of a projection film index to establish proper framing for various aspect ratios (1955). Ryder, who was nominated for 12 Oscars, won his first in 1938 for his recording of a pig's squeal that he reproduced backward to create the sound of an ice avalanche in "Spawn of the North." Ryder served as sound director and chief engineer for Paramount studios from 1936-1957 and oversaw the sound for such films as "The Great Victor Herbert," "Northwest Mounted Police," "Double Indemnity," "Rear Window," and "The Ten Commandments." He also developed the Vista Vision wide-screen process and during World War II muffled the noises made by Gen. George Patton's tanks during the Battle of the Bulge so that the Germans thought that trucks, not tanks, were approaching.
U.S. sound engineer. He was a pioneering motion picture sound technician who garnered six Academy Awards for such innovations as the development of fine-grain emulsions for variable-density sound recording (1941), the construction and use of the first dial-controlled step-by-step sound channel lineup and test circuit (1945), the development and application of the supersonic playback and public address system (1949), the first studiowide application of magnetic sound recordind for motion picture production (1950), and the invention of a projection film index to establish proper framing for various aspect ratios (1955). Ryder, who was nominated for 12 Oscars, won his first in 1938 for his recording of a pig's squeal that he reproduced backward to create the sound of an ice avalanche in "Spawn of the North." Ryder served as sound director and chief engineer for Paramount studios from 1936-1957 and oversaw the sound for such films as "The Great Victor Herbert," "Northwest Mounted Police," "Double Indemnity," "Rear Window," and "The Ten Commandments." He also developed the Vista Vision wide-screen process and during World War II muffled the noises made by Gen. George Patton's tanks during the Battle of the Bulge so that the Germans thought that trucks, not tanks, were approaching.
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