Prod. UM37 - Mickey's Grand Opera
Well, that's it for a week... I will be at the animation festival in Annecy from Tuesday to Sunday.
Our feature film Asterix and the Vikings is in competition, as is one of our commercials. And the short film that our Estonian branch made is shown in the Panorama program. See our homepage for more precise info about our studio representation in this wonderful French town. It's my 16th time down there since 1979.
To make up for my being away, here is a Lundy & Clark fest, Mickey's Grand Opera. Directed by Wilfred Jackson. With a sign by Cy Young and three scenes by Paul Hopkins, the rest by Dick Lundy, Les Clark, Norm Ferguson and Gilles Armand “Frenchy” De Trémaudan.
Final draft of 9/28/1935.
Now - we can ask ourselves, what did the good folks at the studio think about it, themselves? And interestingly enough - we can find out! Because here is the transcript of the Action Analysis Class led by Don Graham of 2/20/1936, five month after the draft, but nearly three weeks before the short's general release 3/7/1936!
We join Don Graham, probably from 7pm to 9pm on this Thursday, and a class of sixty (!), including Bill Shull, Nick Nichols1, George Drake, Frank Thomas1 and Jim Algar. (1 I guess... Any other possibilities?)
So take out your DVD "Walt Disney Treasures - Mickey Mouse in Living Color" (Vol.1 Disc 1) - and see for yourself!
Note: please keep leaving comments - I may not be able to moderate them before I return, but I would like to know what you think. Oh - and have a look at the intro of our showreel, below!
Our feature film Asterix and the Vikings is in competition, as is one of our commercials. And the short film that our Estonian branch made is shown in the Panorama program. See our homepage for more precise info about our studio representation in this wonderful French town. It's my 16th time down there since 1979.
To make up for my being away, here is a Lundy & Clark fest, Mickey's Grand Opera. Directed by Wilfred Jackson. With a sign by Cy Young and three scenes by Paul Hopkins, the rest by Dick Lundy, Les Clark, Norm Ferguson and Gilles Armand “Frenchy” De Trémaudan.
Final draft of 9/28/1935.
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We join Don Graham, probably from 7pm to 9pm on this Thursday, and a class of sixty (!), including Bill Shull, Nick Nichols1, George Drake, Frank Thomas1 and Jim Algar. (1 I guess... Any other possibilities?)
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Note: please keep leaving comments - I may not be able to moderate them before I return, but I would like to know what you think. Oh - and have a look at the intro of our showreel, below!
Labels: Draft, Shorts, Shorts_UA, Shorts_UA_2006
posted by Hans Perk at 4:00 AM
5 Comments:
Hi Hans. Have a good time at Annecy. I hope that you'll write up your thoughts about the films and the state of the business when you return. Good luck to A. Film's entries.
Thanks a lot, Mark - I will, and will return to this international forum with my findings.
I just noticed that visitors from Russia and Syria joined the list on the right of the page.
29 countries. Who'd have thought... ;-)
Hoi Hans-ik loop achter! je hebt een blog en A-Film zit nu ook in L.A.??
allebei goed nieuws! Gweldige notes hier- ik kom snel terug voor meer! veel plezier in Annecy
Thanks - the sun is shining, the food is good... The best show so far was a program of 12 Silly Symphonies ;-)
In the Action Analysis of "Mickey's Grand Opera" Donald Graham is talking about Scene 3 and he says:
" In a colored picture there is always a certain amount of adjustment necessary by the spectator for the eye to register color, no matter what the scene is. Letting the spectator adjust himself to the fact that he is looking at a colored picture thru lengthening this scene, would have helped more to build the mood of the whole picture....."
Would you say that this statement would apply only to the eye of an audience of that time period, due to the fact that the majority of motion pictures they saw were in b/w or would it apply to today's audience as well? Even though our eyes are used to seeing color everywhere from movies, fast cutting MTV style television, video games, etc.
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