I Know That Voice
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.
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.
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.
way back thousands of years ago
and the Chinese had silks
that they put
and they would project
these big images on the silks,
and these people would
come by the hundreds
that would last for days.
I think probably
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,
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
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
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,
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
nothing to see there.
The radio not only prepped me,
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",
This is,
this is very embarrassing.
"You're murdering
a Peter Falk impression. "
And the eye went and everything
and I just, I discovered
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. "
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