Georges Vaglio
Known for SoundBorn 1922-08-09 — died 2014-01-27Nice, France
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Georges Vaglio, born August 9, 1922, in Nice, was a French film sound engineer.
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He entered the world of cinema at a very young age, as his father was an electrician and lighting technician at the Nicea Studios in Saint-Laurent-du-Var and at the Victorine Studios in Nice before World War II.
He developed a passion for sound. He worked closely with leading French engineers such as Robert William Sivel and Louis Hochet, and was a favorite sound engineer of Danièle Huillet and Jean-Marie Straub for their historical and musical films; his expertise in reproducing analog sound using his Nagra III and IV recorders is universally recognized.
He was the first to experiment with his own lavalier microphones on a film set ("Is Paris Burning?" in 1966).
He contributed to two Oscar-winning films for sound under the direction of William Sivel ("The Wild State" and "The Passerby of Sans-Souci").
He participated in at least 145 film shoots during a career spanning more than fifty years.