Judge — September 1936 — page 16: what you’re looking at

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Judge Cartoons and Effeets Chief of Sound Efi New York City D AR Sir Asa car in my own small way, T take great interest i cts Department Company popu rity of comic strip Tracy, The Gu Buck Rogers, Orphan Annie On the whole are done rather well, but something is mi of the flavor of cartoon strips as we know them i and [ think [ know just what the trouble is We cartoonists would be lost without our descriptive effects like “Pow!” and “Bam!” and "Zowi They are of the very essence of cartoons, And we ever hear them on the rs No. Why? Because you have no sound effects for them. Suppose you wanted to make a noise like “€ arp!" You would be completely baffled. But with sound effects p e radish into a pail of melted vanilla ice cream. This not I, because | have been experimenti for oon strips on the air ke “Glurp!” you d ala may seem strange to you. but T have made a study of my “Ya-a-aa!l” That is a perfect “Glurp coonly way to make I have determined the audible equivaler » a way to get f° Whap!" You take a kippered herring, lay it across your knee and spank it That's tl way to get “Whap!" Then there's ° hi!” ['m sorry to say the only way secure that sound effect is to pust in over-ripe tomato in somebody's face. Not very dig se, but you will be delighted when you hear how natural it sounds nified, of ¢ The proper effect for “Socko!” wi rather hard to find. However, you wi be satisfied, [am sure, with the re strikir mahogany table leg with a set of false teeth. It took me a week before 1 on that device And "Er grin befe wered the very excellent effect to be gotte ‘aused me no end of ch n by smashing my wateh with a be Be sure touse a salami sausage, as it na sausag you dot ve what too metallic 1 nature, and that’s the only t the sound effect for As nd “Zapp!” and “Whee and “Pl —I will set them le at this time, as [ have more im- portant information to impart. Have you ever experimented with the sound 5 ; 4 of a man jumping out of his shoes when Neate Colbie © 3 somebody makes a dumb crack? A cartoon isn’t a cartoon, off the air or Me doin’ two men’s work!” (Page 30, please) 4 “Outrage, I calls it! comicbooks.com