Dubbing Actors and How Sound Is Recorded for Films

By transcription, Bidwell McCormick takes you behind the scenes in Hollywood. I heard someone ask the other day if motion pictures were taken first and the voice added later. Well, this is the first time it ever occurred to me that there was any doubt in anyone's mind on this point.

The pictures are made and the voices recorded simultaneously, isn't that the way it's done? In most cases, yes. Although there are some instances, however, for it is necessary to make the picture and then dumb in the voice.

In the production of Disney cartoons, however, the procedure is reversed. The voice or music is recorded, and then the action is drawn to synchronize with the soundtrack or voice recording. An entirely different voice is quite frequently used when an actor or actress is not deemed to have a satisfactory singing voice or cannot play a musical instrument the script calls

for. This, however, is done generally for the lesser players. Because the more important stars are accomplished vocalists, are they just don't attempt a singing role? Technically however, although the sound and the picture is made simultaneously, the sound actively leads the picture when it goes through the projection machine in the theater.

Yes, twenty frames, I believe it is. And for this and numerous other reasons, the cutting of a motion picture must be in the hands of a skilled film cutter, because the slightest arrow would be magnified a thousand times, and the ear of the audience would instantly reject to sound that did not synchronize

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