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Word: moviola (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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When an animator and his assistants complete a scene, a test camera photographs the sketches on a film strip. Running this back and forth in a small two-way projector known as a moviola, the animator spots "bugs and bobbles," jerkiness or missteps in the animation. Not until a set of drawings is approved by Walt and the director does it go to the inking and "painting department, where over 150 nimble-fingered girls trace the sketches on 12½-by-15-in. celluloid transparencies, called "cels," paint in the designated coloring from a store of 1,500 colors...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Mouse & Man | 12/27/1937 | See Source »

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