 Louis Barron (qv) and Bebe Barron (qv) worked on the electronic  soundtrack music "tonalities" for only three months, the length of  time given them by Dore Schary (qv), head of MGM. He authorized  the studio to send them a complete workprint at Christmas 1955. They  received the complete 35mm Eastmancolor workprint at New Years  1956, a week later, still with many visual effects sequences missing  and timed in with blank leader by editor Ferris Webster (qv). From  January 1, 1956 to April 1, 1956, they worked on the soundtrack  score in their Greenwich Village studio in New York City while the  film was in post