Journalist, Dan Kimpel, interviews music composer, John Powell, and Dan Butler, SVP, Business & Legal Affairs/Music of Paramount Pictures, who both recently worked intensively on the movie Happy Feet.

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0:11 - Intro - Journalist, Dan Kimpel, interviews music composer, John Powell, and Dan Butler, SVP, Business & Legal Affairs/Music of Paramount Pictures, who both recently worked intensively on the movie Happy Feet.

1:36 - Powell describes how Happy Feet came to be an "accidental musical."

4:00 - Butler talks about which songs were the most difficult for him to get the usage rights for the film and soundtrack.

5:49 - Powell shares why the final moments of the soundtrack are so frenetic musically and why he chose this unusual combination of songs.

7:10 - Powell discusses why different penguins needed different styles of music for their songs.

7:43 - Butler on how much involvement he had with the movie Happy Feet, from start to finish.

8:31 - Powell describes why some songs are shortened in the movie and full version in the soundtrack.

10:00 - Powell and Butler talk about how well Brittany Murphey, Nichole Kidman, Robin Williams and other stars sing.

11:32 - Powell discusses the strange mix of singing and acting that the talent had to deal with in the movie and how he helped the stars in preparing for their musical performances.

12:30 - Powell on his singing talent.

12:59 - Powell and Butler share the challenges their geographical differences create the caliber of the musical talent they pooled for the film.

16:09 - Powell talks about creating the massive choral tracks with an over 500 hundred member choir.

18:17 - Powell describes what other sounds the choir group created for in the movie.

18:57 - Powell shares what difficulties he had in creating sounds for the movie to match the environment and feel of the CG movie.

20:12 - Powell discusses how the environmental issues influenced the recording artists.

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