One of the coolest jobs in the world has to be that of a music supervisor, the person entrusted with picking just the right music for movies, movie trailers, TV shows, and commercials. You’d think, too, that this was a job that was invented fairly recently. Actually, no.
The first music supervisor was Ottalie Mark, a New York City woman who got a job with the Warner Theatre in 1925 to help set up its new Vitaphone audio system that brought audio to movies for the first time. By 1929, she was working with another company to clear all the licensing for music used in movies. In the 30s, she became a consultant for other companies looking to use music in movies and later, TV.
Ottalie Mark: another unsung woman who helped change the music industry forever.
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