CLAY COUNTY, Ind. — Lee Strosnider, who did sound for movies and TV for 30 years, died here Nov. 29. He was 82. MSTies will remember some of his early jobs: he did sound and was the camera operator for the movie in episode 621- THE BEAST OF YUCCA FLATS, he did sound for episode 812- THE INCREDIBLY STRANGE CREATURES WHO STOPPED LIVING AND BECAME MIXED UP ZOMBIES, and he was the cinematographer for the movie in episode 609- THE SKY DIVERS.
He attended Indiana State Teachers College for two years and later graduated from UCLA. ?He also worked on movies including “Escape to Witch Mountain,” “Halloween,” “Richard Pryor Live on the Sunset Strip,” “Ghoulies,” “Runaway Train,” “Down and Out in Beverly Hills,” “Sister, Sister,” “Coupe de Ville,” “Forever Young” and “Striking Distance.” He worked TV shows including “Little House on the Prairie,” “Hunter,” “The Dukes of Hazzard,” “Matt Houston,” “The A-Team,” “Unsolved Mysteries” and “The Wonder Years.” He also owned a sound recording rental business.
Thanks to Paul for the heads up.
Thank you for your contributions to movies that would become a part of the MST universe, Lee Strosnider.
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He did sound for The Beast of Yucca Flats?
So I’m going to assume he didn’t have a knack for it when he started.
RIP Mr. Strosnider.
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@ #2: Bob Burns noted in the Ballyhoo documentary on Coleman Francis that, when you consider how inept the rest of the film was, the sound effects were handled in a surprisingly competent manner. IMDB also lists him as a camera operator and a film editor for Beast.
Sampo, you forgot that he did cinematography for Skydivers.
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RIP, but…. TISCWSLABMUZ had someone actually working on the sound???
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Thanks for the catch, Sitting Duck.
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The interview that Ballyhoo did with him during the “Making of” feature for Beast of Yucca Flats was interesting. One of the things that did work well, Lee mentioned that Coleman had suggested that he open the gate to let as much light in the camera as possible to simulate the atomic bomb explosion flash.
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Amazing career!
Tomorrow I’ll go back to work in my little dip**** small town crap radio station dreaming of doing what this man did.
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