Word: sound
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Snow White, like Mickey Mouse, was a creature of necessity. After sound came whooping in, Disney needed a character to replace silent Oswald The Rabbit. From a night of heavy thinking in an upper berth in 1928, Mickey Mouse was born. When the bulging double-feature movement began three years ago to crowd out the Disney shorts, Disney resolved to enter the feature field himself...
...heart-winning that Disney may use the mute, youngest dwarf in a series of his own. Wood creatures have been animated with the same type of clever personalities that birds and animals acquire in the Disney shorts. Songs, dialogue in verse, dialogue in prose and silent sequences with incidental sound and music have been worked into a harmonious pattern. Catchiest tune: Hi-Ho, as the dwarfs trudge home from work. Tunesmiths: Frank Churchill (Who's Afraid of the Big Bad Wolf) and Larry Morey. Technicolor is used with simpler and stronger effects than ever before in motion pictures, giving...
Disney's Folly. Wary Hollywood, which scoffed at sound ten years ago, scoffed at the idea of a seven-reel animated cartoon. The Snow White project was referred to as Disney's Folly. Rivals said he had bought a sweepstakes ticket. Shrewd older Brother Roy Disney, the business brain trust of the Disney enterprises, surveyed Snow White's final bill of $1,600,000, observed: "We've bought the whole damned sweepstakes." In the Disney film, Snow White, the delicate stepdaughter of the Queen, is a dark-haired girl with a doll's oval beauty...
...story staff (Disney is sometimes outvoted), the story is adapted into sequences, scenes, shots, and the 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...
...sang Poet Archibald MacLeish in his Frescoes For Mr. Rockefeller's City. The sound kernel of truth in Poet MacLeish's observation has been clinically noted by Columbia's Anthropologist Franz Boas. At the New York Academy of Medicine last week Dr. Charles Rupert Stockard, embryologist, morphologist and anatomist at Cornell Medical School, offered a possible explanation...