Wednesday, February 20, 2013

The Breakthrough of Walt Disney.

Snow White and the Seven Dwarves was the first full length animated film to use technicolor.  The way this video portrayed the process of making an animated film with technicolor was kind of funny at times actually, because as the narrator spoke of certain positions, the time in history this was recorded was definitely captured.  The parts that were most noticeable to me were when the narrator refers to the outliners and painters of the outlines as "pretty little girls" as if that position could only be filled by girls, and that was probably the case in that time.  Well, that may have been the most noticeable part, but the entire video was quite interesting.  How chemists created "secret" recipes for all 1500 different hues.  That there were 250000 different images in need of painting. Even how the sound effects were recorded may just be a part of history, but without these initial processes, we wouldn't be where we are today cinematically.  Snow White and the Seven Dwarves broke countless barriers in animation and cinematography when it was produced, and today it is still considered a visual masterpiece.  That what is most impressive about this movie.  That it withstood the test of time!

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