Word: cartoonable
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...visitors get past the tiny reception office of the Disney studios. But if a privileged investigator could stay around for the six months it takes to complete a typical cartoon short, he would find it a highly efficient, if occasionally cockeyed, procedure. First step in the making of any Disney picture is the story conference, at which the Disney story staff gathers to sort out ideas that may have grown out of their half-dozen minds, or may have been plucked out of the studio gag library, a sort of omnibus of humor and situations from Aesop to Captain Billy...
...main action illustrated by some of this staff with a series of rough sketches. A director is then assigned to conduct the picture through to its conclusion. He and subordinate music, art, sound-effects and dialogue directors, look over the sketches, decide on the timing. In a typical Disney cartoon, the action and sound move according to an intricate schedule in which the frames of the film are synchronized with the musical beat or sound effects...
...experimental frenzy, and then calmly jotting down the effects with a few swift lines. There used to be a "zoo" at the Disney studios, and animators would study the antics of the animals in preparing their scenes. But for some years it has been recognized that the best cartoon effects are not to be got from animals acting like animals, but from animals acting like people. Mickey Mouse, of course, looked like a human from the start. He has the large soft eyes and pointed face of his creator. Occasionally another portrait creeps into the company. In character and appearance...
Back in Chicago at 16 he studied cartooning in night courses at the Academy of Fine Arts. Walt drifted to Kansas after the War. He sketched cows and plows for farm journals, then set up for himself as a commercial artist. In 1920 he was working for a film slide company, and his ani mated cartoon career was launched with a series based on Kansas City topicalities. The film cost him 30? a foot, sold to three theatres. The average Mickey Mouse or Silly Symphony costs somewhere between $50 and $75 a foot; Snow White, over $200. Walt...
...long ago an interviewer spoke of Snow White as a cartoon, and reported that Mr. Disney retorted: "It's no more a cartoon than a painting by Whistler is a cartoon." The remark, if made, sounds pompous, out of character. The Rembrandt conception fits better-the conception of an artist, single of purpose, utterly unselfconscious, superlatively good at and satisfied in his work, a thoroughgoing professional, just gagging it up and letting the professors tell him what he's done...