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SLEEPING
BEAUTY (1959)
“Sleeping Beauty” was in production longer and costed more than any
previous Disney feature, but because it lacked the humour and personality
that the audience was getting used to in a Disney feature, it got little
response in its original release and proved to be an expensive failure.
Heavily stylized, especially in Eyvind Earle’s beautiful backgrounds, it
was Disney’s first feature to use the 70 mm wide-screen Technirama format.
The film has some wonderful moments, notably the scenes with the three
fairies Flora, Fauna and Merriwether and the evil Maleficent, and is
unquestionably Disney’s most elaborate film.
Here
are two key production drawings of the two kings, King Hubert and King
Stefan, fathers of Princess Aurora and Prince Phillip respectively, from the
same sequence.
I especially like the rough underdrawing in red pencil on King Hubert.
On
King Hubert’s drawing it says ‘FORWARD’ and has a spacing chart for
drawings 144-120. This is drawing 114.
King
Stefan’s drawing is from Sequence 13, Scene 36, and has a spacing chart
for drawings 94-134. This is drawing 134.
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WHO FRAMED ROGER RABBIT
(1988)
Original two cel set-up of Roger Rabbit, Jessica and one of Judge Doom's
Weasel thugs on a matching photo background as marketed by the Walt Disney
Company.
The film was produced by Touchstone Pictures and Amblin Entertainment, and
won four Academy Awards for its technical wizardry and reigned as the
undisputed box-office champion for 1988. It is considered a milestone in the history of animation. Mixing live action
and animation, "Who framed Roger Rabbit" is produced at such a
level of perfection that there is a seamless unity of live and animated
characters. Much of its success can be attributed to its ability to capture
both adult audiences and children. It also renewed adult interest in
animation in the United States. SOLD
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