Wild Sync

A combination Christmas home movie/instructional film on how to make lip-sync sound films with only a wind-up camera and wild tape recorder. Inspired by V. I. Pudovkin’s 1929 statement, “One must never show on the screen a man and reproduce his words exactly synchronized with the movements of his lips. This is cheap imitation, an ingenious trick that is useless to anyone.” “The flamenco dance sequence, wth Hancox yelling out his ‘wild sync’ technique, is the most absurd piece of cinema I’ve ever participated in.” – Lorne Marin “…after Hancox announces near the end that the main action here is lip sync, there is no technical connection between the visuals and the soundtrack: a piano is heard, for instance, but its player is up and dancing. It is technique.” – Michael Wade, Ontario Film Series, Cinema Parallel “…enthusiasts will find the instructional part of this film very helpful… (but) be less entranced with the.. buffoonery that is used as illustration.” – Chris Wornop, A Newletter Called Fred, January, 1980