C.O. Slyfield

Charles Oliver "C.O." Slyfield was an American sound engineer, who worked for Walt Disney Animation Studios during the early years of the company. He would be nominated for four Academy Awards for Best Sound or Recording in the animated feature films: Bambi, Saludos Amigos, The Three Caballeros, and Cinderella.
Slyfield was born in Frankfort, Michigan and became Disney's chief of sound and one of those responsible for innovative techniques used for mixing sound in animated features. He would continued to work with the company all the rest of his career in cartoon shorts, live-action films, and documentaries.
In 1947, Slyfield and fellow soundman Robert O. Cook received a Technical Achievement Award from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences for "the design and development of an audio finder and track viewer for checking and locating noise in sound tracks".
==Filmography==
Year 	Film 	Position
1939 	Donald's Lucky Day 	Sound Supervisor - uncredited
1940 	Fantasia 	Recordist
1940 	The Fire Chief 	Sound Supervisor - uncredited
1941 	Baggage Buster 	Sound Supervisor - uncredited
1942 	Bambi 	Sound Director - uncredited
1943 	Victory Through Air Power 	Sound Recordist
1944 	Donald Duck and the Gorilla 	Sound Supervisor
1944 	The Three Caballeros 	Sound Recordist: live action sequences
1946 	Make Mine Music 	Sound Recordist
1946 	Song of the South 	Sound Director
1947 	Fun and Fancy Free 	Sound Supervisor - "Bongo" segment
1948 	Melody Time 	Sound Director
1948 	So Dear to My Heart 	Sound Director
1948 	Seal Island 	Sound Director
1949 	The Adventures of Ichabod and Mr. Toad 	Sound Director"The Wind in the Willows""The Legend of Sleepy Hollow"
1950 	Cinderella 	Sound Director
1950 	In Beaver Valley 	Sound Department
1950 	One Hour in Wonderland 	Sound Department
1951 	Alice in Wonderland 	Sound Director
1951 	Nature's Half Acre 	Sound Director
1952 	The Olympic Elk 	Sound Director
1953 	Peter Pan 	Sound Director
1953 	Bear Country 	Sound Director
1953 	The Alaskan Eskimo 	Sound Director
1953 	Prowlers of the Everglades 	Sound Director
1953 	The Living Desert 	Sound Director
1954 	20,000 Leagues Under the Sea 	Sound Director
1954 	The Vanishing Prairie 	Sound Director
1954-1955	The Magical World of Disney 	Sound Director
1955 	Davy Crockett, King of the Wild Frontier	Sound Department
1955 	Lady and the Tramp 	Sound Director
1999 	Fantasia 2000 	Sound Recordist - archive sound from "The Sorcerer's Apprentice"
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