Dedicated to the early years of Disney, 1928 - 1940. +
“The multi-plane camera had levels and on each of these levels we put a big glass on it. We’d paint the foreground trees on the top one, the background, the house that you’re photographing, the characters come out and on the fourth level would be the sun and the sky. When the camera panned down through these levels, you got a third dimension effect.”
- Bob Broughton, Camera Effects Artist for Walt Disney Productions
“It was a difficult picture because we’d never done any animal with anatomy and Walt wanted the deer to be very believable.” - Ollie Johnston, Animator
“Walt’s idea was to get all of his artists to draw in the way of the old masters and then put them to animation. They started bringing in real animals and having them on the sound stages and it became a zoo in itself.” - Mel Shaw, Animator
Funny Little Bunnies - 1934
Peculiar Penguins - 1934
The Cookie Carnival - 1935
Fantasia (The Rite of Spring) - 1940
“I did a soup sequence for Snow White, it was very fun and everybody laughed and so did Walt. She [Snow White] calls them in and she serves soup to them. All the funny ways that they slurp the soup, especially Dopey. Then Walt called me up to his office and he says, “I’ve been looking at the film and I’m going to have to take out the soup sequence”, and I spent 8 months on it. He gave me a reason why, he said I’ve got to get back to the witch and… it kinda hurt.”
- Ward Kimball, Animator
On Ice - 1935
Fantasia (Night on Bald Mountain) - 1940
“It’s still astonishing to see that film. In fact, when he was doing storyboards for the Ave Maria section of Fantasia (1940) and one of the story people said, ‘You know, I don’t think we’re using the cartoon medium as we should be.’ Walt immediately turned on the guy and said, ‘This is not the cartoon medium, we shouldn’t only be thinking of this as a cartoon, we have worlds to conquer here.’”
- John Canemaker, Author and Historian
Funny Little Bunnies - 1934
