Monday, November 17, 2008

How Disney Cartoons Are Made

Here is an old gem from the late 30's. This documentary is very cool because it shows some of the old animation studio back in it's heydays. These where when the characters and backgrounds were hand drawn and individually photographed. Later when I worked at Disney we had a computerized CAPS system that took of the work out of the color setup. This video refers to some of the female employees as "pretty girls" So it's definitely from a different time. Disneyland was some 15 years out in the future and wasn't even a project at this time. This is when disney was raising money by breaking box office records with some of this early cutting edge animation, namely "Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs", which was a box office smash hit. Now without some of these early smash hits Disney may have never gotten wealthy enough or popular enough to get projects like Disneyland going.
Anyway checkout the cool little documentary here.

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