Here is the first installment of the continuation to the draft of Pinocchio. Please keep commenting, and remember, always let your conscience be your guide!
again, this is amazing! i'm gonna print them all! what a source you are making. the idea of been able to watch this film (or any other) and having all this information in my hand to check the animator that was behind an espesific scene is so...so.... cool (i wish i knew more adjetives in this moment)
I saw Jiminy Cricket on "Give a Little Whistle" sequence. Jiminy Cricket is doing it on imitating trombone, smelling the pipe, falls off the shelf, bouncing on the saw, and marching on the cuckoo clock. I know, Jiminy Cricket was bouncing on the saw and bounces up and down. Jiminy did bouncing on the whistling saw.
Mickey Cuts Up was directed by Burt Gillett and released 11/30/1931. It is found on Disney Treasures DVD: Mickey Mouse in Black & White Volume 1 disc 1. You may still find it here on YouTube. Have a look, if you need a clearer understanding of the following documents! Gillett left some documents pertaining Mickey Cuts Up behind, and I would like here to show a few of these that I recently lucked into. It is interesting to speculate in which order these were written - they seem to all be in Gillett's own handwriting and would probably date to late August or early September 1931. First we have two pages, numbered 1 & 2, with ideas linked to names, Otto and Webb, which to me seems to mean that the ideas were originally thought out by either Otto Englander or Webb Smith. There are interesting ideas that did not make the film - they are crossed out: "mower bumps up and down on hedge - trick cuts." Some were not crossed out and made it in the film: "Cuts down tre...
This just in from Børge Ring. It is not a Disney item, but fun, nonetheless: William Littlejohn animated Lucy and Snoopy for Melendez on the PEANUTS series and recounted: "At one time Charles Schultz (the author of the comic strip) complained: "You guys make a mistake when you animate Charlie Brown. You change the placement of his nose when his head turns from profile to front view!" "No Charlie...the change is YOURS!" "Ah...come on fellers, I know my own characters!" They invited him down to the studio, set him up in the attic at a lightbox and said: "Draw a Charlie Brown in profile and one where he looks into the camera. Then draw three stages in between the two where his head turns." At 7 o'clock that evening, when everybody was having beers and playing pool, a tired Schulz came down the stairs, jacket slung over the shoulder. He stopped briefly to say: "OK, you guys. You win..."
Directed by Ham Luske, laid out by Charles Philippi and Lance Nolley. Assistant director Larry Lansburgh, secretary Ruth Wright. This final draft dated 11/22/49. King and Duke by Milt Kahl, partly reissued to Hal Ambro (One scene of Duke by Frank Thomas) Cindy by Marc Davis Prince by Eric Larson and Les Clark Stepmother by Harvey Toombs Stepsisters by Judge Whitaker "Girls" by Les Clark Court Announcer by Fred Moore Crowd by Luske (Don Lusk again?) Curtain by George Rowley Description: "Prince & Cinderella fall in love." Sort of says it all. Eric Larson's prince is well-drawn but rather stiff. Somewhere in between the prince in Snow White and Milt's Prince Philip in Sleeping Beauty, Cinderella's prince has very little business. A song and a dance - and a bit of yawning. Milt's King and Duke are, of course, excellent! Yesterday's post disappeared for over a day as Blogger had severe maintenance problems. I am sorry about that, I couldn't h...
again, this is amazing!
ReplyDeletei'm gonna print them all!
what a source you are making.
the idea of been able to watch this film (or any other) and having all this information in my hand to check the animator that was behind an espesific scene is so...so.... cool (i wish i knew more adjetives in this moment)
please keep it up
Julian from argentina
I saw Jiminy Cricket on "Give a Little Whistle" sequence. Jiminy Cricket is doing it on imitating trombone, smelling the pipe, falls off the shelf, bouncing on the saw, and marching on the cuckoo clock. I know, Jiminy Cricket was bouncing on the saw and bounces up and down. Jiminy did bouncing on the whistling saw.
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