Monday, January 14, 2008

Mel Blanc Slowed Down

You know how in the the cartoon "Rabbit's Kin" (aka "The One With Pete Puma") Bugs meets a little rabbit who talks in an almost incomprehensibly high-pitched voice? Most of you probably know that it's just Mel Blanc's voice sped up even more than usual. (The closed captions even indicate what he's actually saying.) But I thought I'd try slowing the dialogue down until it was back to more or less Blanc's real voice, and then dub it back into the cartoon.

I couldn't slow the picture down as well as the audio, so I mostly had to repeat the same footage twice. But at least you can hear where they took a line of dialogue that was supposed to occur earlier ("And all of a sudden, just as I was passing the big old oak tree") and put it in near the end of the scene, figuring nobody would notice. And I just think it's fun to hear Blanc's real voice (more or less) coming out of this cute little Scribner-animated rabbit.



4 comments:

  1. LOL. I've done this a few times, including with my 16mm print (ran it on silent speed).

    Now how 'bout the rest?

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  2. Anonymous12:02 PM

    Nice. He kinda sounds like Sylvester slowed down like that.

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  3. Anonymous1:43 PM

    I believe Mel said Sylvester's voice was the one closest to his (minus the lisp, of course).

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  4. I don't know about Sylvester. There's definitely a lot of Yosemite Sam in the little guy.

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