![]() Ushiwaka (1939) director Kenzo Masaoka chose Mrs Masaoka to play the diminutive hero, and himself as the hulking brute Benkei. When casting the two combatants in Benkei vs. Voice work in early anime was often of secondary concern, with "actors" pulled in from available staff. Instead, anime would be screened to a musical accompaniment, although many would also employ a live benshi (narrator) to fill in dialogue and story elements in the style of similar performances in the Japanese puppet theater or magic lantern shows. Voice acting in the earliest anime was not part of the finished work, since anime was in existence for a decade before the introduction of audio. In the days before digital copying and back-ups were possible, some M&E tracks did not survive as separate entities, seriously hampering the chances of an anime getting a foreign release. Inured to the need to replace voice tracks in different territories, Japanese animation sound is usually recorded in two distinct parcels - a voice track laid down with the actors, and the Music and Effects (M&E) track comprising all other elements. ![]() ![]() The treatment of sound has been one of the invisible elements of Japanese animation's exports abroad. ![]()
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