Finding his voice: Cartoon with Murray and Van Brunt

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Finding his voice: Cartoon with Murray and Van Brunt

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This is a Max Fleischer cartoon from 1929.
Billy Murray and Walter Van Brunt is two filmstrips.
Murray is "Talkie" and Van Brunt is "Mutie". "Mutie" wants a voice and "Talkie" takes him to "Dr. Western".
The film explains how sound cartoons are made.


[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_pE2NywSC_Q[/youtube]


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Amazing. And no mention of the earlier Vitaphone method using discs for the soundtracks.

Incidentally, the credit of 'W E Erpi' is a neat giggle. ERPI (Electrical Research Products Inc) was a WE offshoot created in 1927 to sell, install and service sound motion picture and other sound equipment for theatres and auditoriums. In 1937 WE were forced by the government to divest itself of ERPI citing anti-trust. The employees bought it and renamed it All Technical Services Corporation....Altec for short. A merger with Jim Lansing's Lansing Manufacturing Company in 1941 gave the world the famous name Altec-Lansing. (Yes, that's the man behind James B Lansing Sound Inc, aka JBL.)

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Thanks for the link and historical info...I actually WAS wondering about W E Erpi when I watched it earlier today as it seems like a strange "name." I always love when someone "gets" 80+ year old jokes. I always think of pop culture references in current TV and movies and wonder if anyone will get most of them in 80 years...if humans still exist!

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