Wildlife documentaries with the Disney touch. Nice anecdotes (They hired real life dwarfs to draw them for Snow White!), some very obscure: Walt's mother died from monoxide poison. The release of Song of the South in a socially unstable country. Using "quickies" to finance quality on better pictures. Controversy about Bambi as reflecting negatively on hunters. Animation as an art experience: Fantasia.
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A full length feature cartoon, a perfect movie (Snow White). Insisting on specialization (extremes - inbetweens) Art classes for animators. Conceiving excellence as a corporate value. Donald as an anti-Mickey (a bad-ass duck). Mickey inbetween of Charlie Chaplin - Douglas Fairbanks type of heroe. This book is not a simple biography, it's a very well founded defense of the genius that was also a man the most positive biography on Walt I've ever read (hear really) but not at the risk of losing objectivity: you'll know about his outbursts of wrath (sometimes his cruelty), the fierce oposition to laborist activism ("Commies sons of the bitches" used to said Walt was a fervent hater of anything he though was communist influenced).īut beyond the shadows of the man's life there are some fine examples of his initiative, risky spirit, obsessive perfectionism, and inventiveness all of which can be found on this book: Inverting the live-action animation relationship (Alice's Series). He couldn't draw, not even his own signature" - they say - Always reminding us some sad story about employees working for pennies or how he was an abusive boss bully, a conservative dickhead, an anti semite nazi.!!! Intellectuals prefer to see him as a cultural pollutioner manipulating masses into merchandising consumption. Some critics describe Walter Elias Disney as a greedy capitalist, a mercenary butching fairy tales for profit. "This is audible" :) Narrated by Arthur Morey. Gabler Neal, Walt Disney: The Triumph of American Imagination, London, Vintage, 2007. In the second chapter we take a journey through each of the "seven major" cartoon studios at the time: The Fleischer Studios Walt Disney Productions Terry-Toons MGM cartoon Division Walter Lantz Productions Leon Schlesinger Productions and Screen Gems. And then the usual topics: McCay's Gertie the Dinosaur, Felix the Cat, Max Fleischer and Walt Disney (didn't give his permission to show pictures of Disney characters, BOO!!). So Terry got the most pages and attention: Little Herman, Farmer Al Falfa, and the Aesop's Fables. According to the book he was the greatest pioneer of them all (I'm not being sarcastic here, I sort of agree with that). A sweet mention to the Big Four: John Bray, Earl Hurd, Raoul Barre and. In the first chapter we have a brief history of the attempts to give illusion of movement to drawings: from the Altamira cave pictures till Emile Cohl's animated cartoons. I mean, this comes from the same cheap bastard that proudly used to said: "If Disney is making chicken pâté, then we are making chickenshit!" The people from animationresources scanned this book, one of the very first on animation history.Ī foreword was made by Paul Terry, which is real funny because he talks about the artistic possibilities of cartooning: animation as an art form!. JPG images / 10 MB / Eng / 73 pp (A scan made by animationresources)
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The spaghetti scene in Lady and the Tramp How Captain Hook managed to play the piano and many more.įalk Nat, How To Make Animated Cartoons, New York, Foundation Books, 1941. They will share their memories on: Alice's Queen Pinocchio's nose Bernard the janitor Prince John thumb sucking problem Bambi and Thumper How Mowgli got "lured" by woman. (In their books they insist on how an animator is really an actor) And sure they have earned this reputation: main animation in 23 film features!!! In this doc what I really like, is how they edited the acting of Frank and Ollie with its animation counterpart so you get to see what's behind animation, and how all the classical Disney scenes were born in their minds. INTERVIEWEES: Frank Thomas Ollie Johnston Jeanette Thomas (Wife) Marie Johnston (Wife) John Canemaker (Animator, Critic) John Culhane (Critic) Andy Gaskill (Animator) Glen Keane (Animator).Ī documentary on this notable pair of animators, among the most talented and famous of Disney's so-called "Nine Old Men". Frank and Ollie / DIR: Theodore Thomas / WRITTEN: Theodore Thomas / PHOTO: Erik Daarstad / EDIT: Kathryn Camp / MUSIC: John Reynolds / PRD: Kuniko Okubo Theodore Thomas / 1995 / 1h 29m.