Ondes Martenot - in Cinema and Television

In Cinema and Television

Arthur Honegger used it for Berthold Bartosch's film The Idea (1930, score added 1934). It was used by composer Brian Easdale in the ballet music for The Red Shoes. It was frequently used in horror and science fiction movies and television, notably in the 1950s. British composer Barry Gray frequently used it in his scores for Gerry Anderson's television series, and American composer Dominic Frontiere used it in a few episodes of the television series The Outer Limits (1963–65). Film composer Elmer Bernstein incorporated the instrument into many of his works beginning with Heavy Metal, in 1981. Maurice Jarre also used of the instrument. It was used by the composer David Fanshawe in the British television series Flambards. One of the few anime composers who has used the instrument is Takashi Harada in the soundtracks of A Tree of Palme (2002) and in Binchō-tan (2006).

Other film scores using the ondes Martenot include Lawrence of Arabia (1962); Billion Dollar Brain (1967); Doppelgänger (1969); Jesus of Nazareth (miniseries) (1977); Heavy Metal (1981); Ghostbusters (1984); A Passage to India (1984); The Black Cauldron (1985); Tucker: The Man and His Dream (1988); Rising Sun (1993); Amélie (2001) by Yann Tiersen; Bodysong (2003) and There Will Be Blood (2007) by Jonny Greenwood of Radiohead; and March of the Penguins (2005) by Émilie Simon.