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Friday, January 14, 2011

Sound Track Reading: The Duck Hunt

M22-Dialog-1
In conjunction with yesterday's posting on sound sync, here is a sheet prepared for the 1932 Mickey Mouse film Prod. CM22 - The Duck Hunt, from Burt Gillett's papers. It shows the breakdown of the dialog for scene 2A, seemingly recorded 1/6/1932, "Not a duck in sight!" punch 5, take 2. (At the top is written "1-15" - the actual length of the sound of this sentence is just that: one foot 15 frames.)

The sync mark would be on the beginning of the N of "not." The numbers on the left, 32B and 32C refer to the beat numbers of the music - Measure 32, Beat B & C. It is a quiet scene, on a 24 beat. Note that the dialog is edited to the word "duck" hits beat 32C! Coincidence? Maybe - maybe not!

Another thing of note is the date: if the recording date truly was January 6th, then it is especially noteworthy that 22 days later, on January 28th, the film was released to the distributor!
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3 comments:

  1. Steven HartleyFriday, January 14, 2011 at 7:41:00 AM PST

    Mmm, interesting - so it seems our topics for now is about sound syncing. That's cool - I like Disney sound effects that goes with gags.

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  2. Hans PerkFriday, January 14, 2011 at 7:47:00 AM PST

    Well, "topic..." - I just pulled some documents that *I* found interesting ;-)

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  3. Michael SpornSaturday, January 15, 2011 at 5:20:00 AM PST

    This is an extraordinary document, indeedf. I love that the paper is broken into 8 frame sectors with highlights at the 16 fr mark, exactly as modern sheets were developed.

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