I Know That Voice

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Ezekiel 25:
17.

The path of the righteous man

is beset on all sides

with the inequities

of the selfish

and the tyranny of evil men.

In a world of cartoon voices,

animated, really annoying,

etcetera.

Blessed is he.

When the name of charity

and goodwill.

Shepherd the weak through

the valley of darkness.

Praise to his brother's keeper.

And the finder

of lost children.

And I will strike down.

Upon those

with great vengeance.

And with furious anger.

Those who attempt to poison.

And destroy my brothers!

If you will know

my name is the Lord.

You could call me Jesus,

you could call me Christ,

you could call me the Lord.

When I lay

my vengeance upon thee.

My sweet, sweet,

sexy vengeance.

You gotta watch this.

What's the name of it?

You need to

I think I'll have

some more martini.

Take two.

I know that voice!

I know that voice.

I know that voice!

I know that voice.

I know that voice.

And I know that voice.

I know that voice.

I know that voice.

I know that voice!

From beautiful

downtown Burbank.

I know that voice!

"I Know That Voice. "

Yeah!

Aaaah!

Turn around!

You scaled the heights

of adequacy.

You and your tower

can go to hell.

Nice.

Try again.

That was good.

Rolling scene 12X.

12X, action.

What about that

non hovering hover car?

Is that making the music?

Need just a little slower

for clarity.

What about that

non-hovering hover car?

Is that making the music?

That's good.

Everybody always

asks me questions about

what this job is like.

Why not ask all of my peers,

find out what they think,

so that...

so that we can show you.

You know, everything you always

wanted to know

about voice acting

but were afraid to ask.

You go to a dinner party

and say, "What do you do?"

I say, "I'm a voice actor. "

"Okay. Hey, they have dip. "

Just friends,

trying to explain,

"What exactly do you do?"

What do you mean

you're a voice actor?

"What does that mean?"

Well, I go into a room

and they give me a script

and you know when

you hear that,

"In a world, one man... "

that's me!

- "You're the one man?"

- "No, no, I'm not the one man.

I'm the guy

that says 'one man. '"

"Well, wait a second.

Well, that's just that voice. "

Yeah, but did you ever

stop to think that

there's actually a guy

in a room reading that?

We brought people in for...

for tours and to visit

and stuff like that

and you really see

that it's just,

"Had no idea this is

how you did this. "

I don't know what

they thought, but, yeah.

You know, I would say

that if people had any idea

how much work really went

into animation

they would look at it

with a lot more,

sort of, a sense of awe.

If you think about it

way back thousands of years ago

and the Chinese had silks

that they put

these rod puppets in front of

and they would project

these big images on the silks,

and these people would

come by the hundreds

and watch these shows

that would last for days.

I think probably

the tradition would have

come out of puppet shows.

God bless America

Land that I love

Small voices

for small characters.

Character voices

come from British musical

and vaudeville.

Silent movies.

The shorts that they did,

that Laurel and Hardy did

and Keaton did and Chaplin did,

those broad, wacky,

wonderful things.

Later when sound movies

came along, they died out.

What replaced them?

Cartoons.

Animated cartoons

did start in the days

of silent motion pictures

and they'd have

little bubble captions

with the dialogue in them

so when you'd be

watching the films you,

you know, that's how

they spoke to you

was through the dialogue.

And in the late '20s

is really...

after "The Jazz Singer"

was released which was

the first talking

motion picture

Warner Brothers produced,

animation then started

to move towards that trying

to get into sound.

Back in the early '20s,

1924 Max Fleischer

actually produced

the first cartoon series

with a soundtrack.

This microphone

changes the sound waves

into electrical vibrations

which are amplified here

and sent along these wires

to the mixer room.

The very first

talking cartoon was 1928,

was Paul Terry's "Dinner Time"

and he preceded Walt Disney's

"Steamboat Willy" by a month.

What happened was Walt

heard about,

"The Jazz Singer" came out

so there's sound.

Walt said, "We can take

this technology",

and make a sound movie,"

so they did.

Mickey didn't really

have a voice in...

in that early movie,

he just whistled

and the rest of it

was sound effects

and music effects.

But soon he could talk.

And then when he decided

to do features

and the first feature,

"Snow White" was called

Disney's folly, nobody

thought it would succeed.

But when he started

doing features,

and even before that when

he was casting voices

for the short films,

they were using radio talent.

Those are the great voices.

When I was a kid there was

no TV, remember,

no cell phones, no nothing

except radio.

You know, you'd sit

and you'd look at the radio.

Everybody would sit around

and look at the radio

even though there was

nothing to see there.

The radio not only prepped me,

it prepped everyone else

in early cartoons because

they were all from radio.

The first session I went on

with "The Jetsons"

I was terrified because,

you know, I thought,

"Oh, it's cartoons,

I've never done cartoons. "

I walked into the room

and all of my radio

friends where there.

Radio is... is very much

like an animation session.

You just borrow from whatever...

whatever experience you've

had as the radio actor

or animation person.

It all seems to work out.

Back in the days

of old time radio,

as they call it now, that was

essentially voice acting.

Strangely enough

when you do a cartoon

and they edit it all together

and get it ready

for the animators to animate,

they call it "the radio show. "

My first real gig was

being dropped on my head

in a church which

rendered my relationship

to the deity problematic.

The first one I ever did

where I went,

"Wow, these people

are reacting,

like, as if I was a baby

speaking my first words"

was Peter Falk, was "Columbo. "

I'd seen "Columbo"

the night before

and my teacher, Mr. Fraser,

was doing it in the schoolyard

for a bunch of my schoolmates,

and I don't know how I did it,

but I just went up to him

and said, "Mr. Fraser, Sir",

I'm sorry to bother you.

This is,

this is very embarrassing.

"You're murdering

a Peter Falk impression. "

And the eye went and everything

and I just, I discovered

I could do something well.

I remember I was 10 years old

and there was this woman,

Phyllis, who was running

the front desk

at Lee Strasberg.

And she was so funny with me.

I'd be at the 7/11

across the street

and she'd, you know,

run across and say,

"Alanna, I know you

across the street"

smoking marijuana

with the homeless.

You get your ass

over here right now

"and you learn how to act. "

And then the phone would ring

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