Albert Malotte on Music
Albert Hay Malotte (1895-1964) was composer at Walt Disney's Hyperion Avenue studios from 1935 to 1939. He wrote the music for Alpine Climbers, Little Hiawatha, Ferdinand the Bull and The Ugly Duckling, yet he is best known as the composer of the most popular musical setting of The Lord's Prayer in the English language, 1935.
These are his lecture notes on "The Relation of Music to Animation" from 1937 (a copy that once belonged to animator Bob Youngquist).
Though this usage of music today is considered old-fashioned, to me that is more out of ignorance than anything else.
In my experience, the best directors have musical backgrounds, or at least can read music and have a sense of rhythm. Personally, I had never more fun than directing and editing musical stuff.
(Note that Al(bert) Malotte obviously is NOT Al(fred) Milotte, the True-Life Adventures cameraman...)
These are his lecture notes on "The Relation of Music to Animation" from 1937 (a copy that once belonged to animator Bob Youngquist).
Though this usage of music today is considered old-fashioned, to me that is more out of ignorance than anything else.
In my experience, the best directors have musical backgrounds, or at least can read music and have a sense of rhythm. Personally, I had never more fun than directing and editing musical stuff.
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posted by Hans Perk at 8:00 AM
2 Comments:
Hans,
These wonderful notes and the scene drafts you are publishing are GOLD ! Thank you for sharing these from your collection.
THIS POST IS SO VALUABLE!!
You are right, Hans - most directors ignore this quality in their work these days.
In my meager 9 years of trying to draw - the ONLY directors I've personally seen use metronomic timing in the building their films are John Kricfalusi and Robin Budd.
Personally I think it adds a valuable rhythm to the timing that can't be ignored. But it is - by accident I presume, because who wants to make crap?
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