W2: Early Disney

Question 1

Company where Walt Disney began his professional career in commercial art and animation?

Answer 1

Kansas City Film Ad Company

Question 2

Walt Disney’s first SILENT cartoon series

Answer 2

Laugh-O-Grams

modernized spoofs of famous fairy tales

Question 3

Walt Disney’s second SILENT cartoon series

Answer 3

The Alice Comedies

Starring Virginia Davis. He made the pilot film in Kansas and then the rest in Hollywood

Question 4

Walt’s first distributor, who helped him get the Alice Comedies off the ground

Answer 4

MJ (Margaret) Winkler

Question 5

Walt’s bois (Kansas) (4)

Answer 5

• Ub Iwerks
• Hugh Harman
• Rudolf Ising
• Carman Max Maxwell

Question 6

Walt’s Betrayal #1

Answer 6

Charles Mintz of Universal Studios

Walt went to him for more budget to make his shorts. Mintz took away Oswald the Lucky Rabbit and all of his Kansas boys except for Ub.

Question 7

3 Mickey Mouse short cartoons in order of their production

Answer 7

1. Plane Crazy
2. The Gallopin’ Gaucho
3. Steamboat Willie

Question 8

The first official music supervisor at the Walt Disney Studio?

Answer 8

Carl Stalling

Question 9

Disney’s first SOUND series

Answer 9

The Mickey Mouse series

Question 10

Disney’s second SOUND series

Answer 10

Silly Symphonies

Question 11

How did the Mickey Mouse series differ from the Silly Symphonies?

Answer 11

1) No recurring characters. Oneshots, musically driven/inspired
2) Mood pieces/experimental, visual tone poems

Question 12

1929 cartoon that launched the Silly Symphonies

Answer 12

The Skeleton Dance

Question 13

Walt Disney’s first colour cartoon

Answer 13

Flowers and Trees

made with 3-strip technicolor process

Question 14

What processes did the Disney studio pioneer to make their animations top-notch?

Answer 14

storyboards

sweatboxing

pencil tests

Question 15

What is significant about Walt Disney’s 3 Little Pigs?

Answer 15

Characters all looked the same but acted differently and had different personalities

Question 16

Animators that worked on Three Little Pigs (4)

Answer 16

Art Babbitt

Norm Ferguson

Dick Lundy

Fred Moore

Question 17

The significance of Playful Pluto (1934) and the man who made that happen

Answer 17

instead of showing what he did, the cartoon showed his TRAIN OF THOUGHT and how he FELT

Norm Ferguson

Question 18

5 qualities of a good animator, according to Walt Disney

Answer 18

1) Ability to draw
2) Ability to visualize action, break it down into drawings, and analyze movement
3) Ability to caricature action; take a natural human action and see the exaggerated funny side of it
4) Study and feel the force behind sensation, in order to project that sensation
5) know what creates laughter

Question 19

Disney’s betrayal #2

Answer 19

Pat Powers

Disney studios wasn’t seeing profit so Walt confronted Pat, only to realize that Pat saw this coming and cut a secret deal with Ub if Walt refused to accept Disney’s current profits under his producing

Ub left Walt for Pat, who offered more money and a studio of his own

Question 20

What did Disney learn from the Charles Mintz betrayal

Answer 20

Never relinquish legal license/ownership/control or the integrity of his characters

Question 21

What cartoon introduced Donald Duck

Answer 21

The Wise Little Hen

Question 22

The first technicolor Mickey Mouse cartoon

Answer 22

The Band Concert

Donald comes and fucks up Mickey’s show

Question 23

Walt Disney’s business partner

Answer 23

His literal bro, Roy Disney

Question 24

Which 2 of Walt’s Kansas bois went on to directing WB’s first series?

Answer 24

Hugh Harman & Rudolf Ising

Question 25

Disney’s most important animator in the 1930s

Answer 25

Ub Iwerks

Question 26

First film to convey speed in a dynamic fashion

Answer 26

The Tortoise and the Hare