The Locarno Film Festival will pay tribute to award-winning Star Wars, E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial and Indiana Jones sound engineer, editor and voice actor Ben Burtt at its upcoming 77th edition in ...

Star Wars is filled with iconic sound design, but every gun on Naboo in Phantom Menace makes my brain buzz. Reading time: Reading time 3 minutes The sonic background of Star Wars is almost unmatched ...

In Obi-Wan Kenobi's season finale, the titular Jedi Master battled Darth Vader in an epic duel which finally revealed the origin of that scar on the Sith Lord's head. Vader's helmet was slashed open ...

1977’s “Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope” was one of the first films he worked on. It was Burtt who created the lightsaber’s famous hum, which he says came from a broken TV set and a film projector.