W:10 Walt Disney Feature Animation 1

Question 1

Cartoon that Disney used to practice animating the female form

Answer 1

The Goddess of Spring (Silly Symphonies)

Question 2

What was the biggest challenge the Disney animators had to overcome?

Answer 2

Realistically animating the human form (esp females)

Question 3

What year did Snow White come out?

Answer 3

1937

Question 4

Who was the supervising director of Snow White?

Answer 4

David Hand

Question 5

Name the two people who contributed to Snow White’s “Old Wood” storybook look

Answer 5

Gustaf Tenggren (Art Director)

Albert Hurter (Chara Designer)

Question 6

Key animator of Snow White

Answer 6

Grim Natwick

Question 7

Key animators of the Dwarves in Snow White

Answer 7

Fred Moore and Bill Tytla

Question 8

Key Animator of the Queen from Snow White

Answer 8

Art Babbitt

Question 9

List the Disney Golden Era Films in order

Answer 9

Snow White and the Seven Dwarves (1937)

Pinocchio (1940)

Fantasia (1940)

Dumbo (1941)

Bambi (1942)

Question 10

Key animator of Jiminy Cricket

Answer 10

Ward Kimball

Question 11

Key animator of Stromboli

Answer 11

Bill Tytla

Question 12

What was groundbreaking about the music score of Fantasia?

Answer 12

segments of classical music loosely connected to one another

used stereophonic sound system (Fantasound)

used multiple speaker and multiple tracks

Question 13

What was unusual about the look, cost, and run time of Dumbo?

Answer 13

super cartoony, bright, colourful

least expensive to produce

shortest Disney animated feature

Question 14

Describe the look/design of Bambi

Answer 14

inspired by Chinese impressionistic paintings (Tyrus Wong)

realistic, natural beauty without fantasy

lots of depth and dimensions (thanks multiplane camera)

Question 15

What foreign continent did Disney and friends travel to, and what animated films came out of this trip?

Answer 15

South America

The Three Caballeros
Saludos Amigos

Question 16

What kind of features did Disney make during the Post-War Blues period?

Answer 16

Package Features

Question 17

Name Disney’s package features

Answer 17

Make Mine Music

Ichabod and Mr. Toad

Fun and Fancy Free

Melody Time

Question 18

1937 Silly Symphony that used the multiplane camera for the first time

Answer 18

The Old Mill

Question 19

Describe how the multiplane camera works

Answer 19

Enabled camera to look through a series of levels

Finished picture had an illusion of depth and dimension

Vertical tower holding artwork on different planes (background on bottom)

Adjustable planes with camera on top

Question 20

Who did Walt Disney hire to train his artists, and from what institution?

Answer 20

Don Graham

Chouinard Art School

Question 21

European art movement that influenced the terror/horror scenes in Snow White

Answer 21

German Expressionism

Question 22

Man who conducted the soundtrack of Fantasia

Answer 22

Leopold Stokowski

Question 23

Key animator of Chernabog in Fantasia

Answer 23

Bill Tytla

Question 24

Disney artist who inspired impressionistic background designs for Bambi

Answer 24

Tyrus Wong

Question 25

What entertainment did Disney start making during the studio’s Post War Blues perios

Answer 25

Live action films