10 More Bizarre Ways Directors Tricked Audiences
9. Snow White's Echo-y Singing Was Re-Recorded In A Toilet - Snow White & The Seven Dwarfs
The first song featured in Show White and the Seven Dwarfs is undeniably one of its most memorable and iconic, with Snow White (Adriana Caselotti) belting out "I'm Wishing" above a wishing well, where many of her sung lines are echoed back to her.
If you assumed that the sound team behind the movie either simply had Adriana Caselotti record her lines in an echo-y environment or even edited them in post-production to give off the appropriate reverb, neither is actually true.
Hilariously, the sound team were struggling to create an appropriate echo, and so resorted to taking Caselotti's vocal recordings into a bathroom, playing them through a speaker and then recording the resounding echo, allowing them to create the famous call-and-response with the well.
This unorthodox sound recording technique is best known today as "worldizing" - a term coined by legendary sound designer Walter Murch, to describe re-recording existing sounds in a sonically appropriate place to make them feel more "real" and lived in.