tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27501132.post8010249898314115842..comments2023-12-31T01:23:39.943-05:00Comments on Mayerson on Animation: Six Authors In Search of a Character: Part 8, Voice ActingMark Mayersonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00065971589878678848noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27501132.post-10616218327261683662007-06-08T10:36:00.000-04:002007-06-08T10:36:00.000-04:00Oops. Peter Emslie pointed out to me that I had D...Oops. Peter Emslie pointed out to me that I had Dale Messick, not Don Messick, as the voice of Scooby Doo. I have fixed the mistake upstairs in the entry. Dale Messick was the writer-artist of Brenda Starr, a comic strip about a woman reporter.<BR/><BR/>The Spectre is correct that voice actors were not credited on the early animated features. I would also point out, though, that many performers were not credited in live action features. Billy Gilbert, the voice of Sneezy, was uncredited in the Marx Brothers' 1935 film A Night at the Opera. Many live action features would only credit a dozen actors out of the entire cast and many supporting actors became familiar to audiences without the audiences knowing their names.Mark Mayersonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00065971589878678848noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27501132.post-21112236496761527712007-06-07T19:46:00.000-04:002007-06-07T19:46:00.000-04:00Great post, it's interesting to understand the his...Great post, it's interesting to understand the history and context around voice acting in animation. I blogged about this recently, and personally I feel that once the animators start to make the animated performance as much like the actor as possible, as in your example with Eddie Murphy, and once the films are promoted as vehicles for big-name talent, something can be lost from the magic of the animation. I don't go to see an animated film to see Eddie Murphy translated into a different visual style, I want to see something new, and unique, that transcends a human performance.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27501132.post-2717501876830984752007-06-07T15:24:00.000-04:002007-06-07T15:24:00.000-04:00While Rub was known to audiences from his live act...<I>While Rub was known to audiences from his live action roles in films like Little Man, What Now? and You Can’t Take It With You, he was not a major star or box office draw. In recent animated films, voices of stars have been used for their name value and characterizations have been built more on a star’s persona.</I><BR/><BR/>Probably also worth mentioning would be that in the early days, the voice actors were not even credited on animated feature films.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com