COLOURED CARTOONS
INTRICATE PROCESS USED WALT DISNEY FILMS It requires from 12,000 to 15,000 drawings to make one reel of a Walt Disney cartoon, to give a length of 750 ft., lasting for eight minutes on the screen. The technicolour cameras used to photograph the colour cartoons are the most intricate pieces of machinery in existence. It takes the manufacturers over six months to make one of these machines. Walt Disney was the first artist to apply colour to the cartoon. His faith in technicolour was shown by the popularity of his Silly Symphony cartoons. Other producers of cartoons beseiged the technicolour organisation for contracts to make colour treatments of their product, only to discover that the father of Mickey Mouse had the exclusive use of the process for a full year. Now Mickey appears in technicolour, his first picture being "The Band Concert." The making of a Mickey Mouse cartoon is an intricate and laborious process, very puzzling to the layman. Each cartoon requires as much effort and detail as the average feature picture iii which living actors are used; tt took four months to produce the first coloured Mickey Mouse cartoon, "The Band Concert."
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXII, Issue 22130, 8 June 1935, Page 12 (Supplement)
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196COLOURED CARTOONS New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXII, Issue 22130, 8 June 1935, Page 12 (Supplement)
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