How Disney engineered sounds before computers existed (1941)

Imagine being a sound engineer then. “Alright I need a cello, a pulley system, high pressure water hose, and someone willing to dunk their head in a bucket of water and blow bubbles”😅 what a time.

Love seeing the craft behind these old cartoons. The sound effects are a performance of their own.

We need to bring this animation style back

Before digital sound design and computers, Foley artists were pure alchemists. The sheer ingenuity required to recreate every subtle sound effect manually in 1941 is mind-blowing.

Fantasia with Fantasound reached only thirteen theatres. In April 1941 RKO replaced those stereo tracks with a single mono soundtrack.

some things we always took for granted

Glorioso!!!

Fascinating perspective, definitely worth considering.

And now the computers replicate these same sounds

Magia!!.😍

Very cool!

Not that long ago….

The good old days of film making when everything was analog! But it worked!

A work of Art! Look at the original *Star Wars*—made without computers—and the version remastered by machines. The first is art, flaws and all; the second is fake, and I rejected it outright!

I’d watch an entire documentary about the person whose job was to decide what this train sounds like.

so cool

@grok where is the video from

So many people were employed back then; now, nothing.

What great work! What's more, there was work in animation studios back then...👀

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With apologies for nit-picking, but don’t you make the soundtrack first in animations, so you have timings for everything?