The history of sound at Walt Disney.
Walt Disney is one of the most popular film making company’s in the world, creating hundreds of hit films for example Beauty and the Beast and The Lion King. Looking into the way in which sound in Disney has been developed has been helpful for me in understanding how sound has developed over time and looking into first animations and how they used sound.
Disney’s ‘Steamboat Willie’ (1928) was one of the first experiments
in composing an audio soundtrack for an animation as posted on: http://www-inst.eecs.berkeley.edu/~cs294-7/sp04/sp_04_presentations/Sound_In_Animation.pdf
Disney Fantasia was also one of the first films to be released
in a multichannel format called Fantasound.
What i wanted to look at is how the films created sounds for
different films, what I started to look at was the creation of film sound at Walt
Disney studios, here i found out what different stages where used for when
creating the sound.
Post
Production SoundThe Main
Theater is a state-of-the-art digital sound dubbing and screening facility that
was first used to mix the sound for FANTASIA. Sound mixers blend dialogue,
music, and sound effects tracks to the various levels appropriate for a movie
theater. The acoustics are designed to simulate a theater that is
three-quarters full. Although the theater is empty during the mixing session,
extra padding in the seats and specially designed walls absorb and reflect the
sound. This helps the sound mixers to know what the final product will sound
like when it is released to the public.
Stage A,
situated next to the Main Theater, was originally used for scoring. For many
years, the music for innumerable Disney movies and cartoons was recorded here.
In 1985, the stage was converted to a dubbing stage and theater. Like the Main
Theater, Stage A is an all-digital, state-of-the-art dubbing facility.
Stages B
& C were designed to provide sound elements for the animated films. Because
of the Studio location near the Burbank Airport, special priority was given to
soundproofing with "building within a building" design for noise
reduction.
Stage B
is known as the dialogue stage, where character voices were recorded for many
animated classics including ALICE IN WONDERLAND, LADY AND THE TRAMP, PETER PAN,
and THE JUNGLE BOOK. The tradition continues today, as Stage B is still used
for such recent films as ALADDIN, THE LION KING, BEAUTY AND THE BEAST, and THE
HUNCHBACK OF NOTRE DAME. Today, that tradition continues not only on Disney
films, but also with Pixar hits such as TOY STORY, BUGS LIFE, TOY STORY 2, and
MONSTERS INC. Stage B accommodates Automatic Dialog Replacement (ADR), a
process that allows the talent to re-record their dialogue. One such use is for
scenes shot on location, where an talent's lines were destroyed by outside
sound or noise, such as a plane flying over at the time of filming.
Stage C
was originally used for the recording of various sound effects for the animated
features and short subjects. Many of the unique sound-effects props and gadgets
for these processes were invented by Disney technicians. Today, Stage C serves
as a dubbing stage for film and television. It was recently renovated in 2001
and like the other stages it features an all-digital, state-of-the-art film
console.
This gave
me an insite to the way in which sound is created in big production films, it
takes many different stages for the sound within a film to be created.
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