Action Analysis &Animation &Animation Artifacts &Commentary &Disney &Frame Grabs 15 Jul 2013 06:40 am
Mickey’s Service Station Grabs
- Having posted sketches from Mickey’s Service Station, the brilliant 1935 short, the last B&W Mickey film, the next thing for me to do, logically, is post frame grabs from the final film – for comparison.
Since Hans Perk has made available the film’s draft on his incredibly resourceful site, AFilmLA, I’ve also added the animators’ names to the frame grabs. What an assortment it is, too. Art Babbitt, Eric Larsen, Bill Tytla, Jack Kinney, Don Towsley, Fred Spencer, Milt Kahl, Ferdinand Hovarth, Archie Robins among others.
Here, then, are the scenes from the film:
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on 15 Jul 2013 at 7:09 am 1.Mark Mayerson said …
The thing that gets me about this film and The Band Concert (both 1935) is how crude the character designs are. You can still see the influence of the circles and hosepipe approach. While people are constantly surprised at how far Disney got from 1928 to 1937, it was an accelerating curve. Really, the giant leap was from 1935 to 1937.
on 15 Jul 2013 at 12:47 pm 2.the Gee said …
Early on, were Donald’s legs always approached by making them mostly black?
If it was common, I never really noticed in other early B&Ws I’ve seen with him in them.
on 15 Jul 2013 at 2:50 pm 3.Nat said …
Seeing all of these talented people’s names really makes one appreciate all the hard work that is put into animation.
on 15 Jul 2013 at 3:40 pm 4.Thad Komorowski said …
Mark, I agree with you, and I was actually having this conversation over the weekend. It’s only deep into the ’30s (roughly 1935) does the advancement at Disney’s get rapidly fast. Before that, things were only improving slowly in the Silly Symphonies and at a standstill in the Mickey Mouse shorts. At that point, most of the homegrown stars and NY imports were in place; the work could do nothing except improve drastically.
on 15 Jul 2013 at 5:32 pm 5.Thad Komorowski said …
^ Wow, “rapidly fast”"? Derrr…. OK, nothing to see here….
on 15 Jul 2013 at 11:16 pm 6.the Gee said …
Bah.
I just read “rapidly fast†as synonymous with “Lickity splitâ€.
The only drag is that it took you so long to realize the (mild) redundancy.
On either count: no harm, no foul.