1. Week 8: Disney- History and Industry
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937) and Song of the South (1946)

2. 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

3. 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

4. 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

5. Walt Disney before Hollywood
Formed Laugh-O-Gram films in 1922
‘Alice in Cartoonland’( )
Move to Hollywood in 1923
Sets up studio with Roy Disney
Oswald the Lucky Rabbit ( )

6. Alice’s Egg Plant (1924)

8. 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

9. Minne the Moocher (1932)

11. Mickey Mouse Steamboat Willie (1928) Character and personality
Production slowed after late 1930s, stopped after 1953

12. 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)

13. Flowers and Trees (1932)

14. Multiplane and Disney Realism
Depth via multiplane
Illusion of depth
Quest for realism
Wells- ‘hyperealism’

15. Disney and Multiplane

16. Pallant, ‘A History of Innovation’?
Disney as industrialising figure
Pose to Pose animation (as opposed to straight ahead animation)
Sound
Colour
Multiplane

17. The Adventures of Prince Achmed (1926)

18. Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937)

19. Disney strike (1941)

20. UPA

21. 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

22. One Hundred and One Dalmatians (1961)

25. 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)

26. The Little Mermaid (1989)

27. 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)