From DeFacto Sound, you're listening to 20,000 Hertz.

The stories behind the world's most recognizable and interesting sounds.

I'm Dallas Taylor.

This is the story behind Foley.

Take a moment to really listen to a movie scene.

Anything an actor touches, moves, and walks on, it's clean and super detailed.

But what you think you're hearing isn't always what it seems, and none of it was recorded

on the movie set.

Foli is the live performance of custom-made sounds set against picture.

These everyday sounds brought old-time radio to life

and are the heartbeat of today's movies.

Foley artists create these sounds out of everyday objects to make them feel real.

Foley came to the sky jack Foley, who really invented it, and they were going to do showboat,

and they needed some sound effects, they used radio sound effects the way they would do clumping shoes, and water, pattern wheels and things like that.

That was really invented then for the talkies.

That's Fred Newman, and even he has a hard time describing what he does.

I don't really have a title.

I think scam artist is the best because I'm just doing what I used to do as a kid. That's what I do. I honk for a title. I think scam artist is the best because I'm just doing what I used to do as a kid.

That's what I do. I honk for a living. That's what I do. I honk for a living.

Fred's techniques offer a rare glimpse into the art form that inspires today's Foley artists.

It's really a hybrid of old radio and acting. What? I really do jumps back over Foley.

Making sounds are all in a day's work for Fred.

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