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Grandfather with an East Side Background, a thin-faced, sallow figure with resentful eyes, in a black Sunday suit and derby, angled against a sad line of shops, a huckster, a synagogue...
While the music staff prepares the score, the dialogue director collects his cast of voices (Disney is always Mickey Mouse) and records the dialogue. The sound-effects department records a third track. In the recording room, sound engineers then synchronize the three sound tracks on one. Meanwhile background artists have been sketching out the scenes of the story, the limits in which the characters will eventually move according to the rhythm set for them...
...animation cels are assembled, together with backgrounds and other eels of intermediate background, and taken to the camera. In Snow White, the $75,000 multiplane camera is the one chiefly used-it is much like any other movie camera, except that its action can be governed to expose one frame of film and then stop. Regular cinema cameras run at the rate of anywhere from eight to 64 frames per second. What makes the Disney camera unique is its towering, 14-ft. framework. The camera peers vertically down from the top of this iron structure through several levels, set below...
...Corp. of America, the apparatus emits radio waves so short that some of them bounce back from an obstacle to the sending point, where they are focused so as to create a tiny image on a copper sulfate screen.* The picture emerges as a white silhouette on a blue background. If the obstacle is a ship, its distance can be inferred from the size of the image...
...theory that music alone hath not sufficient box-office charm, the producers stuffed the picture with best-selling comedy commodities. In view of the Paris background, the film has still another distinction : the Eiffel Tower does not appear until the second reel...