Jim Macdonald
This interview, conducted by David Tietyen while researching his book The Musical World of Walt Disney (Harry N. Abrams, 1990), was transcribed by Andy Wakeley.
[The first question asked by David Tietyen and the beginning of Jim Macdonald’s answer were lost.]
Jim Macdonald: [ . . . ] the six tracks of the theatre, and just let them run. These things would start heterodyning themselves, and a couple of the mixers started to get ill. I don’t know what it did to the paying public when they went in, but it didn’t bother me. But [the sound mixers] had to leave the theatre, because these frequencies were getting to them. I felt like I had great power. I felt like the mad professor, like a [mock evil laughter]. Here I had something that would make folks sick; you weren’t supposed to get sick. But that worked out so well. Oh, it was a great sound. I had that on a piece of tape, too.
David Tietyen: Yours is kind of a fun area to be into. Was Walt involved?
JM: Walt was not involved, but he liked sound effects. He used to love to come down and bring visitors. I was on stage and we were doing effects, and he’d bring some of his guests down. […]
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- 1 - Ruth Disney Beecher (Dave Smith)
- 2 - Les Clark (Frank Thomas, Ollie Johnston)
- 3 - Harry Tytle (Richard Hubler)
- 4 - James Bodrero (Milt Gray)
- 5 - Sylvia Holland - as remembered by Theo Halladay (Robin Allan)
- 6 - Retta Scott (Robin Allan)
- 7 - Retta Davidson (Jim Korkis)
- 8 - Retta Davidson (Floyd Norman)
- 9 - Moe Gollub - as remembered by Mark Kirkland (Steve Hulett)
- 10 - Ben Sharpsteen (Richard Hubler)
- 11 - Lou Debney (David Tietyen)
- 12 - Jim Macdonald
- 13 - Charles Wolcott (David Tietyen)
- 14 - Bill Cottrell (Richard Hubler)
- 15 - Herb Ryman (Richard Hubler)
- 16 - Donn Tatum (Richard Hubler)
- 17 - Card Walker (Richard Hubler)
- 18 - Bob Sherman (Richard Hubler)
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- 22 - Bill Anderson (John G. West)
- 23 - Robert Stevenson (Richard Hubler)
- 24 - Don Griffith (Christopher Finch, Linda Rosenkrantz)
- 25 - Floyd Gottfredson (Jim Korkis)
- 26 - Floyd Gottfredson (Tony Fischier)
- 27 - Al Taliaferro (Jim Korkis)
- 28 - Jack Hannah (Jim Korkis)
- 29 - Carl Barks (Jim Fanning)
- 30 - Blaine Gibson (Paul F. Anderson)
- 31 - Harriet Burns (Scott Wolf)
- 32 - Roy E. Disney (Charles Solomon)
- 33 - Correspondence with Frank Thomas (Göran Broling)
- 34 - Bud Hester (Didier Ghez)
- 35 - Ken Southworth (Didier Ghez)
- 36 - Dale Baer (Didier Ghez)
