Ora Nichols

Black-and-white photograph, view from above, of a woman facing forward, but with her face turned to our left, and a man facing left behind her. They are in a room with sound equipment carrying a CBS label, with three turntables in front of the woman, and some scripts on lecterns at the left.
Nichols with assistant George O'Donnell on the set of The March of Time in January 1935

Aurore Dolores Daigle Nichols (March 8, 1893[1] – November 13, 1951[2]) was a pioneering sound effects artist in American radio broadcasting. She was the first woman to be the head of a sound effects department, and created many sound-producing methods. She worked with Orson Welles, with whom she sometimes clashed.[3]

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