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...
Seq. 19.1 "'I've Seen Everything' Song" Directed by Jack Kinney , assistant director Lou Debney, layout Don DaGradi. This FINAL draft dated 6/25/41. Mostly birds by Ward Kimball, one of the scenes by Walt Kelly, with Fred Moore animating Timothy, and one scene by Don Towsley. Effects by Miles Pike, George Rowley, [George] Baker, Sandy Strother, [?] Wilson, Jerome Brown and Dan Macmanus. This is certainly one of the highlights of the movie. Why? Because it is enjoyable, entertaining, snappy, with great characters and fun music - and animation worthy of Kimball.
Don Graham introduces this Thursday evening Action Analysis Class as the "last class for a while," and it seems that the next classes were held in July, some four months later. In this class he discusses "the work covered to date," concentrating on anticipation and overlapping action, with examples from Alpine Climbers , and referencing Dave Hand's lecture two weeks earlier. Johnny Cannon pantomimes overlapping actions, and we hear from George Goepper, Jack Hannah, Jack Campbell, Paul Allen, Riley Thompson, Jim Algar and Bill Shull. Is Paul Allen questioning Fergie's animation? I remember the discussions while animation on Vahalla in the 80's, on overlapping actions and follow-thru. They were especially mixed up as the term "overlap" had been used to mean follow-thru. It took years to rid folks of this bad habit, and some never could get used to it...
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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