Live Answer Time! - Saturdays Noon CDT

[robcat2075]

On Saturdays from 12 Noon to 1PM Central Time I will be available on Google Meet and attempt to answer/solve/demonstrate any A:M question you may have.

1PM-2PM Eastern time
12 Noon to 1PM Central Daylight Saving Time
11AM-12 Noon Mountain time
10AM-11AM Pacific time

1700 Saturday Greenwich Mean Time (while US is on Daylight Saving Time)

You will need your Google account and a microphone. You don't need a camera, I don't have one either but we can show each other what we are doing with screen sharing.

To access the Google Meet, click on this link:

https://meet.google.com/fzm-rhzy-dcr

• You will need to be signed into your Google account.
• Your browser may ask for permission to use your mic.
• If you have trouble, send me a PM.

If possible, please add an avatar image to your Google account so you may appear as something other than a generic icon.

 

Catch up with past Live Answer Times at Live Answer Time... less-live archived editions!

[robcat2075]

You'll kick yourself... if you miss Live Answer Time at Noon CDT Saturday June 7 2025


Singer-Actor Dean Martin was born on this day in 1917.
 

 

 

[robcat2075]

At the end of Live Answer Time today we watched a Tom & Jerry cartoon, "Tee for Two" (1945).

I'm not a huge T&J fan but I caught this one because I saw a "bar sheet" for it, the initial sketch for the music, online. (See below)

 

(Sorry about the auto-play!)

 

The top half of a system is a frame by frame account of the events on-screen, the bottom half is where the composer (Scott Bradley) jots in what he's going to do for it. He doesn't see the film before he writes the music. He'd only get this chart and probably a visit with the storyboard.

https://tralfaz.blogspot.com/2017/01/cartoon-composer-scott-bradley.html

Quote

Shawn Roney, in his thesis A Frog, A Cat, A Mouse, A “Deranged Genius” and More: The Story of MGM Cartoons (1998), quoted his interview with [Bill]Hanna:

I worked close with Scott Bradley because I did all of the timing of the Tom and Jerrys and did a lot of my work on bar sheets, where the actual notes were written down. . . . And he was always very cooperative and — in working closely with him — why, we could almost tell him exactly, or I could tell him exactly, what we had in mind and we wanted and he always seemed to be able to fulfill that. ...
We worked with Scott on a daily basis.

He was [a] much older man than we were; and as far [as] having any social life together, we didn’t. But he was certainly a pleasure to work with and a great talent and a lot of fun.