Week 8: Disney- History and Industry Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937) and Song of the South (1946)
Disney Control and management of studio Carefully regulated self-image ‘Disney-centric’ appreciation of animation Disney’s perceived parentage of animation perpetual desire to innovate, obsessive attention to detail, industrial approach to animation
Seminar Topics Snow White Post-Walt Disney Eliza Gezy Justice Altair Carlo James Niharika Klara Izzy Steph Song of the South Pixar Stefano Jess Ellyse Kharam Conor Alfie Hal Issy Sara Grace Raphael
Thomas and Johnson (1981) Squash and stretch Anticipation Staging Straight ahead action and pose to pose (will say more about this later) Follow through and overlapping action Slow in and slow out Arcs Secondary action Timing Exaggeration Solid drawing Appeal
Walt Disney before Hollywood Formed Laugh-O-Gram films in 1922 ‘Alice in Cartoonland’(1923-1927) Move to Hollywood in 1923 Sets up studio with Roy Disney Oswald the Lucky Rabbit (1927-1928)
Alice’s Egg Plant (1924)
The Fleischer Brothers New York Dave and Max Fleischer Out of the Inkwell, Betty Boop, Popeye Full length films, Gulliver’s Travels (1939) Superman series Forced to resign, Paramount took over in 1942
Minne the Moocher (1932)
Mickey Mouse Steamboat Willie (1928) Character and personality Production slowed after late 1930s, stopped after 1953
Silly Symphonies Other creators involved The Skeleton Dance (1929) Flower and Trees (1932)- technicolor New technologies, techniques Animating humans The Goddess of Spring (1934) Multiplane cameras- The Old Mill (1937)
Flowers and Trees (1932)
Multiplane and Disney Realism Depth via multiplane Illusion of depth Quest for realism Wells- ‘hyperealism’
Disney and Multiplane
Pallant, ‘A History of Innovation’? Disney as industrialising figure Pose to Pose animation (as opposed to straight ahead animation) Sound Colour Multiplane
The Adventures of Prince Achmed (1926)
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937)
Disney strike (1941)
UPA
Post strike into 1950s War propaganda films Halt (and then return) to animated feature length filmmaking Diversifying product- theme park, nature documentaries, television Ceased regularly making shorts in 1955
One Hundred and One Dalmatians (1961)
Disney Renaissance The Little Mermaid (1989) The Rescuers Down Under (1990) Beauty and the Beast (1991) Aladdin (1992) The Lion King (1994) Pocahontas (1995) The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1996) Hercules (1997) Mulan (1998) Tarzan (1999)
The Little Mermaid (1989)
Pixar A Bug’s Life (1998) Toy Story 2 (1999) Monsters, Inc (2001) Finding Nemo (2003) The Incredibles (2004) Cars (2006) Ratatouille (2007) Wall-E (2008) Up (2009) Toy Story 3 (2010) Cars 2 (2011) Brave (2012) Monsters University (2013) Inside Out, The Good Dinosaur (2015) Finding Dory (2016)