Name your Noise and the Movies' Sound Maker Will Give It to You
Seriousmindes musicians in the Walt Disney studio look at a picture of Donald Duck falling into a lake on a three-legged motor cycle and agree: "What we need for the sound track there is a loud 'voomp!'"
They eye another comedy sequence, which a six-cylinder engine is popping off, and realize it would be even funnier if they could make each cylinder give out a different sound.
As the starr at more pictures they fret about how to make a noise to match a bed spring bursting through a mattress, how to enchant the audience's ears with the anguish of a train chugging up a grade, to simulate a auto crash.
They conquer all these problems, and their reward is in knowing that movie-goers will laugh as much at the noises as they do at the antics of the cartoon characters.
That "voomp", for instance. Lesser artists might have been satified with, say, a "blorp." Or with a "squoph." Not Disney's noise trust. They said it must be a "voomp." Their nly trouble was that "voomp" wasn't among the hundreds of crazy sounds they have catalogued. […]
