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Jul 22, 2013 - 11:51 AM
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Bob DiMucci
(Member)
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According to a review in Films and Filming, ONCE was filmed at Isla Spiritu Santo in Mexico. The reviewer commented about the film's soundtrack, which contains no dialogue: "What remains is the film's visual beauty and a soundtrack which uses almost everything there is as an alternative to actual dialogue. ... It's audiometrics gone mad and horribly compulsive when one isn't too busy gritting one's teeth." Although the film received the Auteurs Award at the 1974 Cannes Film Festival, the Hollywood Reporter reviewer described ONCE as "Serious in the most pretentious way and lengthy beyond endurance, the film is reminiscent of the short student works hooted out of movie school screenings."
ONCE marked the directorial debut of Morton Heilig (1926--1997), a Hollywood-based cinematographer who has been called "the father of virtual reality," for his 1962 patent of the Sensorama machine, a device that combined a 3-D moving image with scent, stereo sound, artificial breezes and vibrating seats to create an illusion of reality.
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