Talk:The Tom and Jerry Show/@comment-26104212-20191112051223

Rich Danhakl told me in an email a good deal about his sound design on The Tom and Jerry Show:

"Thanks for reaching out and appreciating my work on Tom and Jerry! (Although, can you really call it work when you get to make sfx for cartoons?!) The directors wanted The Tom&Jerry Show to be (sfx wise at least) as close to the original as possible. It was a challenge because a lot of those classic Turner sounds were recorded in the 40s/50s and just dont sound all that great when played out of modern speakers/devices. I recreated a lot of them at my studio to sound as close to the originals as I could get them. A lot of the screams are actually me (My neighbors loved me for that )."

Although the sound effects design in this show uses a heavy amount of other H-B, WB, Sound Ideas, Hollywoodedge and Disney SFX that, in some ways, were not in the original T&J shorts, I certainly have to give Rich credit for recreating classic MGM sounds. It can be hard to believe that, knowing most WB Animation projects these days, WB credits none of the post-production sound staff (DIA/ADR editors like Mark Keatts don't count) unless it's a theatrical movie. No shorts, no DTV movies, no TV shows. They used to credit more of the sound team about a decade ago.

BTW, Rich added in response to a suggestion for sound designers on SvTFOE new content: "Count me in for the toonie Star spinoff (I’ll pass the message along to Jesse and Roy)!" [he means to Aruda and Braverman at Advantage]