Hanna-Barbera’s Cacophony
Sound Effects and the Production of Movement
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 21787387 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Patrick Sullivan (0000-0002-6910-9827, University of Rochester, NY, USA) |
| Year | 2021 |
| Volume | 16 |
| Issue | 1-2 |
| Pages | 21-35 |
| Publication date | 2021-07-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Animation (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1746-8477 • E-ISSN: 1746-8485 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1177/17468477211025660 |
| OpenAlex | W3183919325 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 4 |
| References cited | 8 |
Zaps, crashes, boinks, and bangs flooded TV’s airwaves with the rise of Hanna-Barbera Productions at the end of the 1950s, and these sound effects have been heard ever since. Hanna-Barbera Productions created and proliferated one of the most recognizable collections of sounds in television and animation history. This article traces the formation of Hanna-Barbera’s library of sound effects and how these sound effects operate within the studio’s cartoons. Motored by television’s demanding production schedule and restrictive budgets, Hanna-Barbera persistently recycled its sound effects across episodes, seasons, and series. These sound effects, heard over and over again, were paired to the studio’s brand of limited animation – a form of animation that is often seen as kinetically wanting – to enliven images through sonically invoking movement, what this article calls trajectory mimesis. This logic of trajectory mimesis facilitates the repetition of the studio’s sound effects. These conditions – television’s economic restraints and the studio’s limited animation aesthetics –provided the ideal conditions for the creation of Hanna-Barbera’s iconic library of sound effects
Acoustics · Aesthetics · Animation · Art · Linguistics · Sound design · Sound production · Studio · Visual arts · Cinema and Media Studies · Computer Science · Media, Gender, and Advertising · Philosophy · Shakespeare, Adaptation, and Literary Criticism
| Unique citing works | 4 |
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| Citations per year | 1 |
| Citation span | 2022 - 2024 (3) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 3 |