Monday, August 11, 2008

Who Put the Beep-De-Beep in Wall-E??

Well, that guy would be Oscar-winning sound designer Ben Burtt. And I never evenheard of a "sound designer." When Wall-E actually spoke,that was Burtt's own voice, but significantly modified.

He also created sound for the "Star Wars" movies, the "Indiana Jones"movies, and "E.T.." That's quite a group of significant movies if you ask me. And I never heard of this guy.


He created Darth Vader's breathing and Chewbaccas's yowl (I especially like that). That was made from the sound of an idling movie projector and microphone feed-back. The sound of Indiana Jones' whip? That's also Ben Burtt.

Burtt figures he created over 2,600 sound files for Wall-E, way more than the usual 700-1000 for Star Wars.

From July 5th Chicago Tribune article "Ben Burtt: The Man Behind R2-D2 and Wall-E's Beeps" by Tom Russo.

Beep, Beep, His Horn Went Beep, Beep, Beep. Old Coot

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