These old sound effects are very awesome things to listen to, because a lot of Disney fans all around the world are reliving the nostalgia of how sounds were made for 2D animation that were used for the Disney franchise. I guess that Jimmy MacDonald, Wayne Allwine and the entire Disney sound department deserve a 👍🏼 for their teamwork to make the sound effects real for Disney animated movies and shorts everywhere.
Kinda' like some "first generation" Cylon...and completely analog. Seriously, I wonder if that technique was ever used to depict "robotic speech" in some sci-fi production?
Audio designers and engineers have to make the list of some of the more under appreciated jobs out there. They really help to make or break a lot of media, and can really enhance a product.
2:02 Oh, so THAT'S why I've never been able to find any footage of actual bears making that sound. Fun fact: It was used for the Giganotosaurus in the _Walking with Dinosaurs_ episode _Land of Giants_
Sound effects artist doesn't really exist in the same form anymore because these days they can just simulate sound effects on a computer. But it was a high-paid and sought-after profession during the golden age of Hollywood. But practical sound effects had started giving way to computer-generated ones by the 90s. And by the 2000s practical sound effects had basically become an obsolete art. Jimmy MacDonald however was considered one of the best at practical sound effects. Today the title "sound effects artist" largely refers to people who create them in computer programs. Much less exciting lol
@@gabrieldassi8591 it's similar to the rainmaker where inside there's a bunch of nails and Mexican peas, which you can see here, 0:48, and when you rotate it the peas hit the nails and make the sound. I think the only difference is that the wave one is bigger, uses more peas, and is rotated slower.
I feel like Foley artists are a dying breed, you could say. It can be very physical work, but the end result sounds so good. If it weren't for the advent of "talking pictures" and Jack Foley, the poineer of the trade, we wouldn't be where we are with sound editing today, whether it be Foley work or ADR. It hasn't even been 100 years yet since the very first talking picture, which was The Jazz Singer (1927), and it's just astounding of the technological advances Hollywood has achieved in that span of time. Say what you want about Hollywood, but you can't deny the feats they've managed to make with all the movies they have made since those early, early days. Even during the silent era of movies, French filmmaker and illusionist Georges Méliès broke new ground with his short movies, his most famous being "A Trip to the Moon" (1902), cinema's first sci-fi movie, and the first to have a mix of live-action and animation (specificially claymation). Unfortunately, he never made any money from it with it's American showings because director and producer Thomas A. Edison secretly had made copies of the movie. Yes, he, as well as others, pirated the movie. Edison made lots of money because of his greed and Méliès went broke a few years afterwards, which is a real shame if you ask me. Méliès deserved better than that. You can actually see a little bit historical fiction of this in the movie "Hugo." Fortunately, for Méliès, flim producer and businessman Thomas Lincoln Tally distributed the movie crediting Méliès and presented it in his Electric Theater, Los Angeles's first movie theater. The movie is widely considered to be one of the most profoundly important movies ever made, and went on to influence so many future filmmakers. I guess in short, so much has been achieved in the making of movies since its early days. From early special effects to Foley work, and to where we currently are, _so much_ has been achieved. There's been so many innovators. Geroges Méliès, D. W. Griffith (The Birth of a Nation, Intolerance), Fritz Lang (highly recommend his silent movie Metropolis), Walt Disney, Orson Wells, Alfred Hitchcock, George Lucas, Stanley Kubrick, to name a few. Nowadays, innovation is dwindling in movies. Practically everything has been done already. It's hard to create that lightning-in-a-bottle kind of movie. I want to say the last movie that has achieved that status is Frozen. I know Barbie has been doing really well, but I doubt it's in the same standing as Frozen. Sorry for the essay here, but watching this video made me think about all this. I can't help being a movie buff.
Don't forget Clarence Nash (original voice of Donald Duck) who did cat/dog sounds with his voice alone. Frank Welker also used tools beside his own voice.
It’s so cool how they use tools and instruments for sound effect instead of using computer those people are really smart thank you fro showing me this🥁
The cow sound and the train and when the dwarfs fell down and the thunder and the siren and the crack of window are my favorite in fact all my favorite sound effect!!!😊
That sounds have been used in theatre productions for a loooong time ever since coconuts were discovered and brought to Europe (they were so expensive back then, only rich people could afford them unlike today).
I cannot deny that the sound effects were what made Disney movies unique in their time, my favorite was the one with the vehicle that when they went up the hill it sounds like the vehicle is coughing, the one with Casie Jr that seems to be I would have swallowed 100 cigarettes and the one with the bells.
Jimmy Macdonald you are the king of sound effect and outstanding work of yours and the other sound effect people thank you for showing me this thank youuu🌈👍🏼
I have heard them say they would animate to the pre recorded voices. So I guess it would be the same process to also animate to the recorded sound effects? So amazing.
They were using a device called a sonovox, (the things she's holding to her throat) which picks up her sound and distorts it to sound like a train. Think of it as an early version of a voice filter.
I'm pretty sure how that works is the two things she's holding up to her throat are picking up the vibrations of her vocal chords and then distorting it to sound like the train.
@@gabrieldassi8591 I can't, because I need behind the scenes footage of the sound effects being made, and none of it exists for that cartoon specifically.
They were using a device called a sonovox (the things she's holding to her throat), which picks up her sound and distorts it to sound like a train. Think of it as an early version of a voice filter.
You might be hearing Jimmy McDonald’s Disney sound effects on other places including “My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic” and on Sound Ideas CD’s of cartoon sound effects where it will include Jimmy McDonald sound effects as well.
uhhh no they're not lol foley is done alot with real items just like Mr.MacDonald did cause why the hell waste time recreating it digitally when you can do it cheaper and better with real items
Nah, people still record real cars, trains, planes but also unusual things such broken fans in a soda fridge, jackhammers, squishing water melons, plus the foley teams still do these similiar things to what Jimmy McDonald did. For instance, in The Incredibles when Dash is running, they rapidly tap baby shoes on the floor. Sure, they edit and mix sounds on computers and they do manipulate or combine sound effects to create new sounds or even make human voices sound more alien but it seldom that you create sound effects directly on computer.
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