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The Making of Walt Disney's The Aristocats. Walt Disney almost single- handedly pioneered animated films and made them an accepted and highly lucrative art and entertainment form. Following his arrival in Hollywood in 1.
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Walt made nearly every forward step in animation. Now released, Disney is offering their all- cartoon feature, The Aristocats on Blu- ray disc. From his early cartooning days in Kansas City, Walt felt that animation was a new means of expression, an unlimited story- telling medium. After joining his older brother, Roy, on the west coast, he strayed from the usual trend in cartoons by combining live- action with pen and ink animation in his "Alice in Cartoonland" shorts. With the advent of sound Walt was one of the first to recognize the importance of the new process, and in 1. Steamboat Willie" in which he introduced Mickey Mouse. For an animated short to talk from the flickering screen in those days must have been just short of incredible. Buddy Buddy Full Movie In English.
He was voted an Oscar for his achievement. The universal acceptance of his work prompted Walt to think of animation as more than simple broad caricatures and gag situations. The Silly Symphonies were Walt's proving ground to this end. In "The Skeleton Dance" animation movement was coordinated with a musical score. The following year (1.
Disney produced "Flowers and Trees," the first cartoon in color, winning another Academy Award. Over the next four years, Disney technicians developed the multiplane camera and gave cartoons a 3- D quality. The camera was introduced in an experimental short, "The Old Mill." The result of this early pioneering was the realization of Walt's long- time dream with his production of the first full- length animation feature, Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs.
Despite critics' dire predictions, Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs was the best attended film of 1. Following this phenomenal success, Walt and his creative team developed wide- screen photography, stereophonic sound (fifteen years ahead of its time for Fantasia), and dithered in unheard animation effects for "Fantasia" (1.
The recent smash Blu- ray release of "Fantasia" gives an indication of how advanced Walt's animation innovations were so many years ago. Disney continued to perfect cartooning techniques with such classics as "Bambi," "Pinocchio," "Peter Pan," "Lady and the Tramp," "Cinderella" and "Sleeping Beauty." With the 1. Dalmatians," a new time and labor saving process, xerography, was introduced. This magnetic process transfers original drawings to celluloid, eliminating the painstaking hand- transfer. The system was used before The Aristocats on "Sword in the Stone," the two "Winnie the Pooh" featurettes, and "The Jungle Book.".
The combination of live- action and animation reached a new high with "Mary Poppins," in which Dick Van Dyke and Julie Andrews danced with cartoon figures in an animated world. This combination was made possible by the Disney- developed traveling matte process, which allowd the combination of separately photographed foreground action with any background footage. With "Jungle Book" and The Aristocats new emphasis was given to story development and the casting of voices, which in turn gave the cartoon characters more depth. Foreign poster. Behind the Scenes. A family of French felines finds action, adventure and a whole lot "amour" when they are named heirs to their mistress' millions. Purr- fornances by top notch vocal talents, a trio of memorable tunes by the Academy Award- winning Sherman Brothers and stylish animation by a seasoned staff of Disney veterans helped make The Aristocats a tremendous success upon its initial release in 1.
The Aristocats was Disney's 2. Walt Disney in 1. Based on an original story by Tom Mc. Gowan and Tom Rowe, this was also one of the few cartoon features that was not based on a legend, fairy tale or classic childrens story. Against the backdrop of turn- of- the- century Paris, the Disney creative team developed a veritable catalog of charismatic characters for the project and then found the ideal actors to portray them. Production stills.
The death of Walt Disney in 1. Co- producers Winston Hibler and Wolfgang "Woolie" Reitherman, who also directed The Aristocats had the support and combined talent of a finely honed production team composed of artists who had served an average of 2. Supervising animator Frank Thomas (co- author of Disney Animation: The Illusion of Life with fellow animator Ollie Johnston) observed at the time, "We were all so well trained in Walt's way of thinking that even if we didn't match his personal inspiration we would still produce something Walt would have been proud of." The late Woolie Reitherman commented back in 1. Disney had been weaning his animation team to work more on their own for some time.
Starting with 'Sleeping Beauty' in 1. Reitherman, "through 'Jungle Book' which was the last cartoon to which Walt actively contributed, each new animation project was completed more and more without him.". Shots taken during production.
Despite the absence of Walt Disney, story and production design supervisor Ken Anderson remembers "We found ourselves asking 'How would Walt react to this?' or 'What would Walt do?' The important thing was that we were able to solve the problems without him. Today, the organization that Walt Disney founded continues to prosper and be synonymous with quality animation including the Pixar studios.
The studio remains committed to the animation medium and recently announced that it would be producing more animated product than ever before under a new accelerated schedule. The 1. 98. 6 release of *The Great Mouse Detective* proved to be a commercial and critical success and the studio then went into on its next full length animated feature, *Oliver Company." The latter was a contemporary American version of Oliver Twist using dogs and cats and featuring the voices of Bette Midler and Billy Joel, is due for release in 1. French poster. Facts and Figures. It is not widely realized, but the Walt Disney animated features require as much talent, time and money as the great live- action epics on the level of "Gone With the Wind" or "2. A Space Odyssey." Originally intended as a two- part, live- action installment of the TV series Walt Disney's Wonderful World of Color. The Aristocats had stacked up some interesting and impressive production figures. Nearly four years in the making, "Aristocats" was budgeted at over $4- million and employed some 2.
Approximately 3. 25,0. The total film used, including the pencil test reels of the sequences before the drawings were transferred to eels and painted, would almost ribbon from the studio in Burbank to Disneyland, some 3. Original lobby card set. The twenty sequences that make up "Aristocats" are composed of 1. Some 2. 00 different hues and colors were used in the picture, all of which were specially ground and processed in the studio color lab.
The final 7. 8- minute running time of the feature measures 6,7. Each minute of Disney animation requires some 1,4. Theoretically, it would take a single artist over 1. The Aristocats" working at the average output of nine feet per week. Mexican lobby cards. Background paintings were meticulously researched and painstakingly executed to heighten the film's artistic and dramatic effect and to provide the proper physical arena for a mysterious catnapping. To authentically capture the charm of turn- of- the- century Paris, as reflected by the buildings and countryside of the period, the artists referred to several hundred periodicals and books.
Dempster also drew on his own personal experience from the recent past when he had spent a month painting in Paris. One of the biggest challenges facing the background artists was to create a color scheme for the settings that would complement the characters and action. This was particularly difficult given the various colors of the kittens, white, orange and gray, and the large amount of nighttime action.
Ken Anderson storyboard.